Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1887 — Labor and Industrial Nates. [ARTICLE]

Labor and Industrial Nates.

The Knights in Tennessee are taking active steps to form a Labor party, and Richard Trevelick has been engaged to stump the State. Jesse Harper and some other Labor leaders have been working Kansas. In Missouri the Labor party is organized in several large towns. In Michigan a large Labor party vote will be polled at the" next election, if activity in organization means anything. Robert Schilling and

a score of active leaders are working Wisconsin. In lowa General Wearer has taken the field. A State convent on will be held in Ohio oo July 4 to nominate State officers. Columbus is the point. The Henry George wing of the Labor party will bold a convention in Cincinnati on the same day. The leading officers of the Farmers’ National Alliance are in correspondence with the leaders of the labor political movement. Several of the Western barbed wire fence manufacturers are having a hard time of it. Two or three have failed, and seven or eight are in a tight place. Manufacturing capacity has been too greatly extended. A good many New England woolen-mills have been flooded with high water. Some Eastern textile-mills are running three to four hours overtime. New yarn-mi Ils are being built at Fall Kiver. A number of small strikes are constantly occurring among the spinners and weavers of the East. Quite a number of New England manufacturers are putting money into small houses for their employes.