Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1893 — STRIKES. [ARTICLE]

STRIKES.

1867. Several murders and other outrages paid for by William Broadhead, Secretary to the Sawgrinders’ Union, Sheffield, England. Notable trials and great excitement. 1867. A commission appointed by Parliament to inquire into the constitution of trades and labor unions. 1867. An act passed by Parliament to establish councils of conciliation to adjust differences between workingmen and their employers. 1867. Strike among English journeymen tailors; most were idle from April to October; a failure. 1868. Labor unions formed in Switzerland and Austria on same models as those of Great Britain. 1868. Workingmen of the same trade allowed to form societies in France, provided they abstained from politics. 1868. Trades unions after the Enflish model established in Germany, ranee and other countries 1868. Great strike of English colliers; 40,000 men involved; partial success. 1869. General strike in North England cotton mills; in every cas3 tho men returned to work at former figures or less. 1869. Serious riots in Wales caused by the minors’ hatred of unpopular Superintendents; suppressed by dragoons. 1869. An act of Parliament passod to protect the funds of labor unions from embezzlement. 1869. The first Trades Union Annual Congress held. Regular meetings ever since. 1869. Much interest caused by the publication of Thornton’s book on labor, in which he maintained that the efforts of trades unions raised the price of labor, and estimated that the increase to the aggregate wages of the workingmen of Great Britain was £9,000,000 a year.