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ELEVEN CENTURIES OF STRIKES

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 17, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 7.

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ELEVEN CENTURIES OF STRIKES.

AMONG the causes which help to check the legitimate expansion of trade in this country, says the Manchester (Eng.) Courier, a prominent place is taken by strikes and "lockouts." Last year was not marked by any serious disturbances, yet from a report just issued by the Board of Trade it appears that the aggregate of time lost by rather more than a quarter of a million workers was 3,479,225 days. Allowing for Sundays, this represents over eleven centuries, and at this rate the figures, in Great Britain alone, soon become of astronomical magnitude. The mining and quarrying industries are responsible for most of this result, the colliers accounting for 96 per cent of the total number of disputes and a nearly equal percentage of their duration.