People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1896 — Strike at Cincinnati Inevitable. [ARTICLE]

Strike at Cincinnati Inevitable.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Jan. 1. —Six hundred hodcarriers and 300 bricklayers have decided’to strike if the contractors insist, after Jan. 1, in reducing bricklayers from 56 to 45 cents an hour and hod carriers from 31% to 25 cents an hour, being under the eight-hour law, a reduction of 88 cents and 50 cents a day, respectively. A strike seems inevitable.