Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1887 — THE INDUSTRIAL REALM. [ARTICLE]

THE INDUSTRIAL REALM.

The International Stove Molders’ Union has suddenly determined upon demanding an advance in wages varying from 10 to 15 per cent over all the United States and Canada, says a Pittsburgh dispatch. The men are to continue at work for two weeks in order to finish what patterns they are at present engaged upon. Then a strike is to be ordered, aud if at the end of a week the advance is not conceded 5 per cent additional is to be asked. There are in the union 13,000 registered members, and 3,000 more who can be accounted for. In this city there are about two hundred and seventy-five, and the largest numbers are in Toronto, St Louis, Cincinnati and Chicago. Pittsburg salesmen have formed a National Trade District under the auspices of the Knights of Labor, it being iuteuded to include ihe salesmen’s assemblies in Now York, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Chicago, Baltimore, aud St Louis as well