Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1887 — THE INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK. [ARTICLE]

THE INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK.

The strike of the freight men on the Pittsburg Division of the Baltimore and Ohio Road is a failure. Milwaukee dispatch: “The strike of tho printers in this city is at an end, the Typographical Union having allowed its members to procure work wherever they can get it The blow is a heavy one to the union, and it is doubtful if it can hold together under the strain. ” One hundred and sixty men were discharged from tho Wagner Palace Car shops at East Buffalo, on an order from New York City. Rumors prevail that the large nail mill at Bay View, Wis., will bo changed into a stoel mill for the manufacture of merchant steel. Six hundred men who struck for a 10 per cent, advanco in pay at the American Wire Works in Cleveland wore paid off aud discharged. The French steamer Cheribon landed at Castle Garden, New York, 1,191 Italian laborers. They were sent by agents in Naples, who have been negotiating with several railroad and steamship companies to furnish them with laborers to replace the strikers on tho dock 8. One hundred colored persons were taken to Peoria, 111., to take the place of striking miners, and considerable excitement was the result The now men claim that they are able to defend themselves aud will go to work despit) the threats of violence. The workingmen in Rochester, N. Y., have determined to demand nine hours as a day’s work, and if it is not granted to strike.