People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1895 — LABOR NOTES. [ARTICLE]

LABOR NOTES.

Mill workers at Dundee have begun a strike. Ten mills are closed and 7,000 hands are idle. A general strike is expected. James Ingles’ planing and feed mill at Plainfield. Wis., was destroyed by fire. Loss, $3,000. Ishpeming and Negaunee, Mich., miners have voted not to return to work. Coal handlers have settled their differences at West Superior, Wis., and are going back. The strike at the Atlantic mine at Houghton, Mich., has been declared off and operations resumed. One hundred and fifty employes of the Royal Mantel company at Rockford, 111., are on strike because of the discharge of one of their number, a leader among them. The company has not lost a day during the business depression.