People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1895 — LABOR NOTES. [ARTICLE]

LABOR NOTES.

Over 900 wage-earners In mills at Norristown and Bridgeport, Pa., are In Idleness owing to strides. The strike at the Illinois steel works at South Chicago is about ended. The Oliver Iron and Steel company of Pittsburg has granted the amalgamated scale In all departments of the mill, and the men will return to work at once. Four thousand iron and steel workers • employed in the Riverside and Wheeling, Belmont and Top mills In West Virginia have been given an increase in wages averaging 10 per cent. The miners at the Shelburn (Ind.) mine have adjusted their dis oces in regard to dues of the organization and notified the operators they are ready to resume work immediately. Wages for furnace men at Sharpsvllle and Middlesex, Pa., have been raised. In the various Ohio coal mines some of the mines have resumed work at 60 cents pending agreement on a general wage scale; at other mines they refuse. At Indianapolis, Ind., all the union molders went on strike, demanding a rigid scale of $2.26 to $2.60 per dey. They are now receiving from $2 to $2:40. The differences at Princeton, 111., between the government employes, and foremen on the Hennepin canal have been practically settled by a large number of the men resigning.