Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1887 — THE INDUSTRIAL REALM. [ARTICLE]

THE INDUSTRIAL REALM.

Boot and shoe workers from all parts of the country have been in seesion at Brooklyn trying to perfect an organizat.oa strong enough to enable them to control their own affairs independent of the Knights of Labor. The Amalgamated Assoc ation of Iron and Steel Workers met in convention at Pittsburgh, Pa., Tuesday. There were 180 delegates present. The International Typographical Union has been in session at Buffalo. William Aimison, of Nashville, wai re-elected President Twelve hundred carpenters at Toronto struck for higher wages on Monday. Both union and non-union men are among the strikers.