Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1887 — THE INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK [ARTICLE]

THE INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK

J. M. Vance, of Wheeling, W. Va., was elected President of the Western Nail Association. Trade was reported good.

Over 6,000 carpenters in Chicago went out on a strike for 35 cents an hour and eight hoars a day. The master carpenters, at a mass meeting, decided to ignore the strikers, and to pay only thirty cents an hour for an eight-honr day. . Mr. T. Y. Powderly presided over a delegate conference of Pennsylvania Knights of Labor, at Harrisburg, and made a speech in which he said: “We are charged with being anarchists and favoring measures that tend to anarchy. As chief of our organization, I can say that anarchy finds no abiding place in our midst, but monopolists want to make people believe the contrary. No matter what errors we have committed m the past, we have always aimed at doing right We have pursued a line of policy and found out things that are right and wrong, but we have always kept clear of the one thing that brings odium on our country —anarchy." The J unction iron-works at Mingo, Ohio, shut down because favorab.e freight rates could not bo made with the railroads. The coal miners at Salem, 111., struck because refused an advance of wages.