Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1897-10-12 | Page 5 | Gigantic Strike in England

I GIGANTIC STRIKE IN ENGLAND I NEARLY HALF A MILLION TO BE CAJiliED OUT a Thirty Important Industries Sympathizing Sympa-thizing With the Engineers Will Unite for the Latters Demands London Oct HThe secretary of the Fede J Trades comprising 30 I jj portan najstries announces that the execui committee has definitely decided to call out a Its members li sympathy wJta the struggle oC the engineers against their employers ou i Friday next when it is estimated ft total of 400000 men trill be out of work on acocunt of the great labor dispute I j Strike on the Exposition Grounds J Omaha Neb Oct none hundred j carpenters employed at the Trans Mississippi exposition ground struck today The men ask that the carpenters I car-penters union be recognized and that skilled labor alone be employed in the carpenters work The contractors have been paying the union scale but I have not recognized the union and have hired many jack legs at lower rates London Oct 11LaterThe Amalgamated Amalga-mated Society of Engineers have douots I that there will be a general strike of such proportions and ilr John Burns says tnat lie has had personal intimation intima-tion that this course Is contemplated Liy the federated trades