Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1888 — THE INDUSTRIAL REALM. [ARTICLE]

THE INDUSTRIAL REALM.

Representatives of the Union Labor party, of Indiana, last at Indianapolis last week and decided to issue a call at once for a State convention to nominate a full ticket, from Governor down. The convention will be held March 7. j A ThilAdelphia dispatch says that “Chairman Johu L Lee and Henry I. Bennett, a member of the Executive Committee of the Ruights of Labor, tried to hold a conference with the Reading official*. Superintendent Sweigert refused to talk with them in their capacity as members of a labor committee. Lee was afterward discharged. Trains w’ere run as usual, and thirteen of the thirty-nine collieries in the Schuylkill region were being worked. Work on the Reading docks at Elisabeth, N. J., has been resume! ■ Two steamboats arrived with 175 new men, who were at once put in the places of the strikers and guarded by detectives. The railroad strike is thought to be over, but fears of a

turners’ strike are growing. * President Corbin, of ib> Beading Company, in a letter to the General Manager of the road, says: Hereafter we will operate this property with employe* who consider their first duty is to the company, and expect to obey reasonaole orders made in the transaction of its business. There has never been a moment when, under any circumstances, we would arbitrate any question growing out of this strike. There has been nothing to arbitrate. It is only a question as to whether the company will be permitted to operate its own property—a property in which there is invested over fc2oo.oou.ooo—or whether this property shall be controlled by the Knights of Labor. It may as well be understood now, and from this time on, that every wheel which is turned on the Heading system shall be turned on the orders of that company, and under the orders of nobody else.