Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1892 — This Week’s Labor Record. [ARTICLE]

This Week’s Labor Record.

The Iron Trade Review gives two columns of its current number to a brief review of the strikes in progress at the time of its publication. It is an interesting study. First, there is an account of the state of affairs at Homestead, supplemented by the announcement that there was “no prospect of an early agreement" between the Pittsburg manufacturers and the Amalgamated Association. In Philadelphia locked-out men were organizing a boycott upon the product of their former employers. In West Superior, Wis., a similar state of affairs existed. In Pittsburg the sheet-iron and steel manufacturers were asking their men to accept a reduction of 20 per cent. In Joliet, 111., the Illinois Steel Company was resuming work after the men had “stood a cut of 23 per cent." In the Bay View Mills, in Wisconsin, the men had gone back after “making some concessions on the guide and ten-inch mill rates. ” In the most recent movement the employers wanted to reduce wages 20 per cent. In several cases men were still striking or locked out. Wherever changes took place wages were reduced. This is labor’s record for the week under the McKinley act.