Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1887 — THE INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK [ARTICLE]

THE INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK

There are no indications of settlement of the coke-workers’ strike, which is causing a reduction of 34,003 tons per week in the output of pig iron in the Mahoning, Shenandoah, and Allegheny Valleys. The Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers will submit an entirely new scale, equivalent to an advance of 10 per cent all around in wages. Bishop Ireland, who has just returned from Rome, said in his sermon at St. Louis, last Sunday, that the church had neither approved nor condemned the Knights of Labor. It recognized the right of every workman to strike, but not to force others Io stop work. The Pope, he said, took a deep interest in American affairs, and considered America the hope of the world. The prospect of a speedy settlement

of the great strike in the building trades at Chicago is now wholly dispelled. Both employers and men have formally resolved to stand firm and fight it out, whatever be the cost A Chicago dispatch says: The representatives of the various building trades met and agreed to stand firmly together, and refuse any and all offers looking to compromising with the 'bricklayers. The materal men renewed their agreement not to sell material penning the strike, the architects, with some reluctance, determined to lend their influence to the employers in the fight, and the United Trades ton il met and concluded to antagonize the bricklayers in their fight, on the ground that tbev ha I dragged the other trades into a uoedless trouble to carry a trivial point in their own interest. On the other hand, the bricklayers agreed to stand by their demand for Saturday as pay-day, and to refuse to work on any other terms, and thus matters stand.