Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1887 — THE INDUSTRIAL REALM. [ARTICLE]

THE INDUSTRIAL REALM.

Strikers made an attempt to blow up a coal shaft at Davidson, Pa., with dynamite while four men were at work. The charge of dynamite was thrown down the shaft and exploded without injuring the men, although the sides of the shaft were damaged. The coinage at the United States mints last month was #4,802,575, of which #2,900,000 was standard silver dollars. The general tenor of spring- wheat reports from the Northwest is very favorable since the recent rains in that section. Several of the big insurance companies of New York have suffered severely by the recent great fires in Now York, and some of tjiem may be obliged to pass dividends. The puddlers employed at the National Rolling Mill, McKeesport, Pa., struck for a 10 per cent advance in wages, and the puddling department has been closed down. Several hundred men are idle. Official report has been made to’the executive board of the Knights of Labor declaring iha strike in the coke region illegal, leoommsnding that the Knights return to work, and sustaining the award of the umpire. A Charleston (W. Va.) telegram says: “The labor act, passed by the recent Legislature, reqn ring operators to pay off every two weeks instead of monthly, took effect June 1. The operators of the Kanawha and New River coal district? refused to comply with its requirements, and about 1,000 miners have quit in these districts. The operators will test the constitutionality of the new measure.’ -