Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1886 — THE INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK. [ARTICLE]

THE INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK.

The former employes of the lumber yards in Chicago have quite generally returned to work on the old basis of hours and wages, but the leading agitators were not received About four hundred men had resumed theix - duties at Pullman up to Monday last The carpenters of Milwaukee compromised on a small advance on hourly wages. Telegrams to Bradstreet’B indicate

that the industrial agitation in favor of fewer hours’ work daily has largely disappeared elsewhere than in Chicago. At New York it has been a practical failure, while at Chicago the attitude of manufacturers in ’several leading lines in locking out some 47,000 employes who demanded a shorter working day promises to arrest the progress of the movement Supplementary reports show that within about two weeks there have been strikes at leading industrial centers to secure fewer daily hours of labor aggregating 201',000 employee, that 150,000 have secured concessions without striking, and that not over 42,000 of the 200,000 strikers have secured their ends. This indicates that over 190,000 employes are working fewer hours per day than one month ago, a small proportion of the total number claiming to be interested. With the favorable change in the industrial outlook general business is reported to have made some advance?.