The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, JUNE 21, 1902.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 450, 21 June 1902, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, JUNE 21, 1902.

STRIKERS IN AMERICA. Our cablegrams to-day report a very serious strike riot in America. Niue people were shot in the struggle between the mob and tire police, and the anarchists have declared that they intend to murder a policeman for every striker wounded. Fortunately all the strikes:in America are not yjl such a bitter nature. At the end of April there was a strike in San Francisco ; the whole street car service was suspended, and the effects were jcomical in many respects. The strike was so unexpected that the tramway officials were taken quite by surprise, ko well was the whole affair managed that the strikers themselves protected the railroad property, and iliey also prevented any assault being made on the solitary individual who could be got to run a car-. The ,strike began on a Saturday night, just when the traffic was at its height. A correspondent writes say‘ing that as each car reached the long line of standing cars it promptly pulled up, the driver and conductor then stepped off, and the crowd were 'eft stranded. The sight is described as a, most remarkable one. A huge crowd stood and gazed at the desolate cars, which stretched in long rows for over a mile. By nine o’clock four hundred cars had been held up, there being popular demonstrations of enthusiasm on behalf of the strikers. It was a most unique sight to note the contrivances that people adopted to get to their homes that night, leaders of society being glad to take advantage of even the humble vegetable cart. The strike resulted in the men getting all that they asked for excepting preference for unionists. It is a pity that the strike now reported had not been conducted on some such lines as the car strike ; for when conflicts arise between police and mob it means that the deserving worker has his cause injured by the scum that cares not for work, but is ever ready for crime. In this instance we are told plainly that the anarchists have threatened to assassinate as many policemen as there have been striker's injured. The anarchists themselves will take care to keep clear of bullets, but it would not be regretted much if a stray one laid out an anarchist or two. ff’he wonder is that the workers themselves do not chastise some of them as they,deserve.