Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1894 — Early Use of the Word “Strike.” [ARTICLE]

Early Use of the Word “Strike.”

An early use of the word “strike" oocurs in the London Chronicle for 1765. ,in the September of that year are numerous references to a great suspension of labor in the Northern coalfield, and the colliers are stated to hava “struck out" for a higher bounty bofore entering into their usual yearly “bond." In confirmation of Mr. Lea-ton-Blenkinsopp’s statement at the last reference, it may be added that the strike is twice called a "stick."—London Chronicle, Oct 8, 10. One of Harriet Alartineau’s earliest pamphlets was a tra t entitled, “Tho Tendency of Strikes an 1 Sticks to Produce Low Waies,” published at Durham in 18.14. Tho time-honored illustration of profitless libor, “carrying coals to Newcastle, ” probably received its first slap in tho face during the strike of 1/65. A paragraph dated Newcastle, Kept 28, in the London Chronicle, says: “’Tis very remarkable that on Wednesday several pokes of coat were brought from Durham to tKts town by one of the common carriers, and told on the sandhill for 9d a poke, by which he cleared Gd a poke." —Notes and Queries,