Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1886 — THE INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK. [ARTICLE]

THE INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK.

The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad coal operators have demanded a reduction of a quarter of a cent a bushel on the price of mining. A strike is probable. A large number of the leading manufacturers of the Western States met in Chicago last week to agree upon the wisest course to pursue as to convict labor. From answers received from various Secretaries of State, it appears that the boot and shoe, wagon, and stocking interests are the most deeply concerned. The meeting organized a national anti-convict contract association, and chose as President W. T. Lewis, of Racine. A resolution was adopted favoring Congressional legislation to prohibit the sale of prisonmade goods outside the State in which they were manufactured. The striking employes of Shoenberger’s nail mill, at Pittsburg, Pa., have accepted the 17-cant scale and resumed work. The Halifax (N. S.) Sugar Refinery Company is financially embarrassed. The concern has a capital of $1,000,000, and is composed of British capitalists. Two copper mines in Montana have shut down, the company claiming they have been running at a loss. About 800 men are thrown out of work. It is said the action was taken to force up prices. The labor troubles which have kept the thirty-nine associated shoe factories of Brockton, Mass., idle for four weeks, have been settled through the efforts of a peace committee of fifteen. The manufacturers have had to yield nearly every point brought up. Pittsburgh special: “The glass bottle blowers of Pittsburgh are jubilant Within two weeks three factories will resume, and the outlook for trade is more encouraging than it has been for five years.” Five men employed by the Belt Line Railway in New York were beaten so badly by a crowd of strikers, it was necessary to send them to a hospital The Knights of Labor have made a demand upon the New York Central Road to increase the wages of all track laborers and repairers.