Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1884 — WAGE-WORKERS. [ARTICLE]

WAGE-WORKERS.

The New Jersey Steel Works, at Trenton, have resumed. The wages of the employes of the stove works at Pittsburgh, N. J., have been reduced 10 per cent. Seventy-two coal-pits in Pennsylvania, employing 8,000 men, have resumed work at the wages paid last fall. The laborers in the United States Government works at Kemp levee, in Louisiana, have strucK for higher wages. The glassworks at Rocklsland, which have beeh shut down since last July, have started up again with a full force of workmen. The mill-owners at Pittsburgh have With* drawn their order for a 10 per cent, reduo tion in the wages of machine molders, thus averting a strike. The annual convention of the Amalga* mated Association of Iron-Workers will be held at Pittsburgh on the sth of April to decide upon a scale for the year commencing June L The wife of a Chamberlin (3. C.) street-ear driver is worth $300,000.