Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1886 — THE INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK. [ARTICLE]

THE INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK.

The International Typographical Union—with the Childs-Drexei fund, of $lO,000, as a nucleus—propose to erect in Philadelphia a hall that shall be known as the home of the craft. August Douath, of Washington; Franks. Tel ton, of Chicago; and J. B. Daily, of Philadelphia, wore made trustees of the fund. Within a few weeks past the statement has gained wide currency that the shorthour movement had proved a complete failure, and .accompanying details went far to prove it. Investigation iuto the result of the movement tends to show that the apparent success is not so small as has bteen asserted. There are good reasons for accepting the following totals of those.getting full wages for fewer hours’ work daily: Striking for short- Reported as Cities.' -I er hours, successful. Chicago 80,0()0 70,000 New YOrk.* 45,000 23,100 Cincinnati,.'. 32,000 ■ . .25,000 Milwaukee 7,000 Baltimore. ....*............r. 9,000 * 4,000 Boston 4,700 . Pittsburgh r . 4,250 1,4.50 Detroit. * 8,000 3,600 fit. Louis 2,COJ 8,700 Washington..t../. 1,500 ~ 1,200 Others,*..... 13,000. Total 198,450 i 57,050 There were, as previously reported, 150,000 who received shorter hours without striking, and 50,000 who struck for and got

them. Tbe falling away has evidently been nearly one-third, as the totals from cities reported are now but sixty-eight per cent of those given in May. An agent of the Knights of Labor has induced most of the retail tradesmen at St Joseph, Mo., to refrain from buying two carloads of boycotted nails from tbe Calumet Steel Works at South Chicago. The Brotherhood of Telegraph Operators has become a part of the Knights of Labor. Before the adjournment of the International Typographical Union, at Pittsburgh, the special committee on the question of the Union joining the Knights of Labor presented a long report, which was adopted The report, after complimenting the KnigHts of Labor in the highest terms, and pledging them support, demands, first, that the Knights of Labor will not attempt to dictate the course of action of distinctive trades; second, that they will not cover with the shield of the order any man who has been found unworthy to mingle with the members of the Union as a fellow-craftsman in good standing. The report of the special committee on the use of stereotype plate matter was approved The report recommends that the executive council endeavor to unionize all firms manufacturing plates, and that all non-union firms be published; that the local unions be required to interdict the use of plates where a reduction of the working force will ensue; newspapers must be prohibited from using news plates manufactured in non-union offices or else be declared unfair; no subordinate union can take any action regarding the use of plates without the consent of the executive council. The striking tailors in New York agreed to accept the arbitration terms and to return to work.