Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1887 — THE INDUSTRIAL OUTLOO [ARTICLE]

THE INDUSTRIAL OUTLOO

The New York manufacturers of gold and silver have locked out all thoir employes who are connected with the Knights of Lalior. A manufacturing firm iu Cincinnati has arranged wall its employes a p an for sharing profits. The carpenters of Milwaukee will lierealter work nine hours per day. Tho cigarma iters of Detroit threaten to strike against a reduction of wages. Tho closing of the stove foundries at Cincinnati means idleness all summer for several thousand men. Tlie Knights of Labor organization in New York h threaten d with disruption, the immediate cause of the trouble being, the persistent refusal of tho E\oeu live Board to give the Knight) of the Montank District a charter. Other districts have taken up tli.i fight, and tho result of it all will be, it is said, that 100,0. H) men will leave the order. The printers have taken sides with the Montauks in the quarrel. Silver mauufaciurers in the East have notified their men to withdraw from the order. The lock-out of the journeymen silversmiths in New York still continues.