LATER DETAILS RE THE STRIKE.
MEN TO UEGE FOB MORE CON. CESSIONS NEXT SUMMER." Beceired September 17,, noonLondon, September 16. At a meeting of the striker* in Hyd« Park the Australian flag W aa waived from the pldtform surrounded by flowers. It preceded all the other flags in the procession. Four thousand men were working " at the docks when the strike finished.' " Though Burns denies the Btrike was connected with Socialism, the organs of the latter claim the result as a triumph for their principles. The leaders make no concealment of their intention to organise* the different kinds of labor in preparation for a general strike next summer until farther concessions are made. It is B 8 sorted numbers of strikers were kept on good pay, and that Burns did not give his services without remuneration. ItfW* port of the latter stntement it is' alleged* he was.aUe to spend money most lavishly during the ciiLe of the strike 'Dock ' owners assert a London,. paper published /' garbled accounts of the strike,.which were • callid to Australia in order to 6bur't pop/ ' ularxty, while the correspondents of Aie?- " ican'papera sent both sides' of the riuestibn * '" Burns boasts--the .result of-the movementSal%v^atrT; t0 <th " dominatioa Of
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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 40, 17 September 1889, Page 2
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201LATER DETAILS RE THE STRIKE. Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 40, 17 September 1889, Page 2
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