Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1887 — THE INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK [ARTICLE]

THE INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK

In the case of Quinn, McKenna, and other leaders of the ’Longshoremen’s Association at New York, held at the suit of the O.d Dominion Company for $2J,009 each, arising out of the recent strika and boycott, Judge Brown, in the United States Circuit Court, decided that the company had cause for action aud refused to discharge the defendants. The strike of silk operatives at Paterson, N. J., involves more than live thousand men. • The Messengers’ Brotherhood of North America, the will-known boys’ labor organization, has collapse! About six hundred coopers in and around New York went out on strike because their bosses were furnishing barrels to a nonunion flour-mill. ’ | The Cumberland mine-owners met at Baltimore and agreed to advance miners’ wages from 40 to 50 cents per ton. The wages of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company’s trainmen are also to be advanced. The price of coke in the Pittsburgh district is to be reduced to sL7sper ton. If

the demand of the men for an increase of wages is pushed the furnaces will be shut down.