+------------------------+-------------+------------+-------------+ | STATES. | Employees' | Employees' | Employers' | | | Loss. |Assistance. | Loss. | +------------------------+-------------+------------+-------------+ | _Strikes._ | | | | | Illinois, | $6,636,208 | $238,452 | $5,251,829 | | Massachusetts, | 4,200,489 | 266,708 | 1,970,881 | | New York, | 8,581,784 | 726,696 | 5,966,421 | | Ohio, | 6,378,757 | 415,568 | 2,793,427 | | Pennsylvania, | 12,890,346 | 781,338 | 3,897,757 | | Other parts of the | | | | | United States, | 13,127,139 | 895,795 | 10,821,238 | | +-------------+------------+-------------+ | THE UNITED STATES, | $51,814,723 | $3,324,557 | $30,701,553 | +------------------------+-------------+------------+-------------+ The large percentage of establishments represented in this table, in which the strikes were ordered by labor-organizations, is particularly noticeable. In New York 94.26% of the establishments had strikes which were ordered, in Illinois 83.96%, in Massachusetts 81.91%, and in the United States 82.24%. The "walking-delegate" so-called became the principal personage in all these strikes; he brought the orders to the men from the "central-union" of their special organization, and became in most cases the sole means of communication between the two. "_You are the strike_," exclaimed the Lord Mayor of London the other day to Mr. Burns, the walking delegate of the dock-laborers now on strike in that city. That the daily bread and home comforts of tens of thousands of men depend on the secret and irresponsible decision of a little knot of agitators, sending out their verbal and often ambiguous written orders by a walking-delegate or two, is one of the monstrosities of Strikes often witnessed in the United States. The laborers sometimes do not know even the causes of the strike. There has been great want and suffering for three months past among the striking coal-miners in the State of Illinois; and a brief editorial in the "Springfield Republican" of Aug. 24, 1889, describes the state of things so justly, that we quote it:--