Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1886 — THE INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK. [ARTICLE]

THE INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK.

It is understood that at the national convention of the Knights of Labor to be held at Richmond next month changes in the present laws will be made that will amount practically to a complete reorganization of the order. The district plan has not proven successful, as was expected, for the reason that in many places districts have been formed within districts, and in consequence the local strength has been divided. Martin Irons, the noted Knights of Labor leader who instigated and engineered the fight against the Gould railroads in the Southwest, was fined $5.50 for drunkenness in the Kansas City Police Court the other day. He had no money with which to liquidate the fine,, which was paid'by a sympathizing friend after Martin had spent a night in jail. The National Association of Sta-

tionary Engineers, in session at Boston, elected the following officers: President, Frank A Foster, New Haven; Vice President, R O. Smith, New York; Secretary, G G. Minor, Cincinnati; Treasurer, G. M. Barker, Nashville, Tenn.; Conductor, M. M. Walbridge, Chicago; Doorkeeper, Harry Knowlton, Detroit, Mich. The stove-foundry employes of Philadelphia are on a strike. Manufacturers have plenty of orders, and it is thought a compromise will be effected. The British Trades-union Congress adopted resolutions against the employment of men overtime, on the ground that it was causing idleness and poverty among thousands by shutting them off from work.