Labor Strikes During 1887

New York, Jan. 23.- BradstreeVs Journal has the following Bummary of strikes and lockouts of importance taking place during 1887, as compared with 1880: The tetáis are believed to include at least nine-tenths of the total number of industrial and transportaron company employés who have struck within two yeara past There are reported 884 strikes, involving 340,000 strikers for 1887, as compared with 350 strikes (of note) and 450,000 etrikers in 188Ö. The outbreaks have increased two and one-half times, but tbe number engajjed in 1887 was but three-quarters of the total engaged in 1886. There were twenty lockouts of 46,000 employés lastyear, and ten lockouts the year before, eflecting directly 80,000 people. Seven-eighths of the lockedout employés were beaten last year and three-fourths of them the year befora Two-thirds of the strikes were for higher or against lower wages, or for shorter hours at unchanged wages, and one-fourth of them concerned farades unión demanda not relating to wages or hours directly. Of the total striking last year, 340,300, about 40 per cent succeeded, as compared with 20 per cent succeeding Ín 1886. These figures point to there having jeen at least 1,300 industrial strikes in the Jnited States within two years by üome 850,)00 employés, of whom about 30 per cent gained their points wholly or in part Out of 340,000 strikers, Pennsylvanía reported Lll,317, or nearly 33 per cent, and New íork 62,056, or 18 per cent, or these two States toget'ier one-half of the totaL