Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1886 — THE INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK. [ARTICLE]

THE INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK.

The miners employed by the new coal-mining syndicate which operates a majority of the mines in Southern Illinois met in East St Louis last week, and decided to demand two cents a bushel, top weight In case the demand is refused they will str.ke. The great rolling-mill strike at Philadelphia, involving over 1,500 men, has been settled. Four hundred miners employed at the Hampton and Duquesne coal works, near Pittsburgh, liavo struck against a reduction of wages 11 cents a ton. Five hundred miners at Dufeois, Pa., after a strike of twenty weeks, have decided to accept the wages offered them.' One hundred carpenters employed in a shop at Port Chester, N. Y., went on a picnic, in violation of orders.- On their return’

they found Hie business indefinitely suspended. Seventy rollers in the Drummond Tobacco Factory at 8t Louis struck against a return to the ten-hour system, throwing 700 men out of work. Twenty thousand people attended a mass-meeting of District Assembly No. 49 of the Knights of Labor at Union Square, New York. There is some excitement at Parsons, Kan., in regard to petitions for the release of the convicted railway strikers, whose unpaid fines and costs amount tojiearly 8700 each.