Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 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 strika The great rolling-mill strike at Philadelphia, involving over 1,500 men, has been settled. The county commissioners at Parsons, Kansas, havj released tlie executive committee of the Knights of Labor, who have served their sentence in jail and are unable to pay tho lines impose!. The laboring people of Canada are highly indignant beeauso the Warden of the penitentiary at Kingston set thirty convicts to unloading vessels during a strike by free citizens for higher wages. The strike among the canal boatmen at New York is spreading rapidly. The Knights of Labor are backing tho Boatmen’s Union. Oarsmen in the employ of the contractor for the Eau Claire Lumber Company’s lumber, on the Chippewa River, struck for more pay. The men were allowed to go. Tlie Central Labor Union, of New

York, elected J. P. Archibald as Marshal for the grand procession in September. The printers refused to abide bv the choice, and threaten to parade independently with twenty thousand sympathizers.