Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1886 — THE INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK. [ARTICLE]

THE INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK.

Domestic servants at Greenville, Pa., have formed a union for the purpose of advancing wages 50 cents a week. They will boycott any girl who refuses to join and merchants who refuse to pay the advance. The Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Road has ended the strike of freight conductor« by a compromise. Thus far the vote of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers shows that 99 per cent of the men are opposed to affiliation with the Knights of Labor. Knights of Labor at Amsterdam, N. Y., have been greatly excited by the publication in a local paper of the mode of initiation and the secrets of their order. A meeting of the coal operators and miners from all of the mines in the Mahoning Valley, was held at Youngstown, Ohio, at which it was agreed to submit all questions in dispute to arbitration committee’.