Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1895 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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a 15 per cent increase, * Five hundred men in iron furnaces in the vicinity of New Castle, Pa., have their former waves restored, the total reductions having aggregated 30 per cent. Advanced Wages. Some of the f urth r reports of continued industrial improvement are . s follows: Puddlers in Oliver iron and steel company’s works, Pittsbuig, Pa., have their wages advanced to $4 per ton. Two hundred employes in Waltham bleachery, Waltham, Mass., have their wages advanced 10 per cent. Employes in Woodstock woolen mills, Norristown, Pa., are offered an increase of 10 per cent ; they are on strike for 20 per cent. Two hundred employes of Norwich mills company (woolens), Norwich, Conn., have old scale restored. Employes in Cleveland Hematite iron mine, Michigan, who got the 10 per cent, advance some weeks ago, are on as strike for 10 per cent. more. Large increases of wages in all branches of the oil industry n Pennsylvania are report-, d. Iron manufacturers’ association of the Mahoning and Shenango valleys decide “to increase voluntarily the wages of blast furnace laborers to tne rates prevailing in 1893 The advance amounts to about 10per cent.’" Noticeof an advance of from 15 to 20 cents a day was pasted at all the furnaces in the Mahoning and Shenango valleys on May 3. Several thousand men are affectedIn the vicinity of Pittsburg alone more than 10,000 workmen received an advance in wages d> ring the last, week.—Dispatch from Pittsburg, May I?, to New York Tribune Two hundred men in Delaware iron works, Wilmington, Delaware, were surprised by a 10 percent, increase in wages in their envelopes. Color mixers and printeis employed in the wall paper factories controlled by the National wall paper company.h .ve wo*> concessions from the company and the strike is declared off. Notices of wage advances were posted in the Berkshire cotton mills, Adams, Massachusetts. Weavers in Stafford mills, Fall Biter, Massachusetts, ave gained concessions from their employers. It will be noted that the upward move ment of wages is particularly strong in those interests most directly affected by the tariff,