Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1887 — THE INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK. [ARTICLE]

THE INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK.

At the Champion mine, forty miles north of Marquette, Mich., 500 men quit work because of the refusal of the superintendent to discharge a foreman. The Sheriff swore in deputies 10%) reserve order. Owing to a difference of opinion with the superintendent the employes of the South Boston Horse Railroad struck in a body. Strikers at Boston tied up the Cambridge horse railroad on a demand for ten hours’ work instead of twelve. Moody Merrill, the largest owner of street railway stock in Boston, declares his belief that the earnings of companies increase in proportion to the wages paid. About fifteen hundred silk-dyers at Paterson, N. J., struck for $1 per week additional pay and a half-holiday. Four hundred ore miners struck at Champion, Mich,, demanding the removal ofi Captain John Sampson and his brother. There is much dissatisfaction in the district,! and other strikes are impending. A New York special says: “Except for the number of 'longshoremen standing idle on the corners, the streets on the river fronts have assumed almost their normal appearance. Though it requires a larger number of men to do the work now than formerly, the steamboat and railroad pier managers all claim that business is as good as before the

strike, and that freight is being moved with tire utmost facility. ” The Knights of Labor have purchased for their general headquarters a building on North Broad street, Philadelphia, for $65,000. The strike of the longshoremen in New York having been declared off, there was a general rush of strikers to get back to work. The loss to the men is estimated to have amounted to over $2,503,000, and they promise to withdraw from the organization that brought on the trouble. The Morgan line of boats, among others, refused to take the strikers back, and an attempt was made to fire its property.