People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1895 — LABOR NOTES [ARTICLE]

LABOR NOTES

The Falls Rivet and Machine Company of Cuyahoga Falls, 0., has advanced wages throughout the establishment 10 per cent. The company employs 500 men. The annual convention of the Order of Railway Telegraphers is on in St. Louis. The strike at the rolling mills at Joliet, 111., la nearly at an end. It is expected the entire plant will start up June 1. The miners near Alliance, Ohio, have resumed work at the old scale. At Dicksonton destitute men are beggging of farmers and killing cattle and sheep. The 100 striking miners of the Cantrell Coal company, in the Springfield (Ill.) district,, have returned to work at the company's terms—3s cents. The Woodside company's men have also returned. The miners of Wadsworth and Rogue's Hollow, 0., have voted to sustain the suspension and remain out until a national settlement is effected. Three hundred men at East Palestine have been ordered out. Several hundred striking miners at the Loomis mines. Silver Creek, Ohio, have returned to work. Twelve hundred miners at the Excelsior mines have quit work in aid of miners who are not getting 60 cents. The group of mines of the Buffalo Mining company at Negaunee, Mich., have been closed down, making idle over 250 men. It is expected work will be resumed within a few days with a force of eighty men. The Salem (O.) Wire Nail company has given notice to its employes of a voluntary advance of 10 per cent in wages to take effect June 1. The same advance will be made at the mills in Salem and the increase will affect 600 men.