People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1895 — Brickmakers Ont of Work at Hammdon. [ARTICLE]

Brickmakers Ont of Work at Hammdon.

Hammond, Ind., May I.—Twenty-five “belt boys” employed at Purington’s, Robinson’s and Moulding’s three brick yards at eßrnice and D. V. Purington’s yards at Bernice and D. V. Purington’s on account of being refused an increase of three cents an hour. The pay now is fifteen cents an hour, ten hours’ work, The yards shut down, and 350 men are out of work.