Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1887 — THE INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK. [ARTICLE]

THE INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK.

Two factious of ’longshoremen engaged in a riot at New Orleans, four persons being wounded by shots and one by a knifethrust One of the victims is not expected to live. The International Union of Bricklayers, at their convention in Washington, decided that they would continue to work nine hours a day, as in the past, and that they would not combine with the Knights of Labor, as requested. A proposed reduction of wages caused a strike of 3,500 hands in P. Lorillard’s tobacco factory at Jersey City.