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...strikers are a united press and a supporting clergy. Landlords accept the total loss of rents without grumbling. In spite of hard times, merchants keep on extending credit, postponing payments on instalments. Riots and unemployment are the bugaboos of most fire and police departments, but New Bedford firemen and policemen contribute to the strikers' funds from their own pockets...
...must either be transferred to other employment or continue indefinitely half-starved upon the dole. A most drastic move to prevent further increase in unemployment was made, last week, quite independently of the Government, by the British Railway Managers Association and the Great National Unions of locomotive engineers, firemen, railway men and railway clubs. Jointly and solemnly they covenanted that for the next twelvemonth a cut of 2½% in pay will be accepted by every underling executive officer and director of the railways concerned. Contrarywise, 500,000 Manchester cotton workers announced last week, that they would strike for higher...
...Firemen tried a hose, could not swamp student ardor. Reluctantly, at last, the police opened fire upon the mob, killing, wounding, restoring order...
...Ward Leigh is famed for many miles about Nyack, N. Y. as the lady who lives in a glass house surrounded by a high wire fence and never eats meat. Late one night last week, firemen answered an alarm at Mrs. Leigh's home. Reaching the wire fence they could not enter. Politely they phoned credentials (by a telephone at the outer gate); firmly they insisted that they were authentic firemen; were at length given entrance. Mrs. Ward Leigh they found seated before a large sirloin steak. Querulously she told them not to break the glass of her house...
...mesh of legal machinery in the United States, the workmen's voice is stifled?as Labor sees it. Hence the rejoicing of Labor, when a decision is handed down like the one that came last week from the United States Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago. Some 40,000 firemen and "engine hostlers" (men who wash and oil locomotives) employed by 55 class one railroads of the west, were awarded a pay-raise, aggregating $3,600,000 per annum...