People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1896 — Chicago Ironworkers to Strike May 1. [ARTICLE]

Chicago Ironworkers to Strike May 1.

Chicago, April 29. —The union iron workers will go on a strike Friday unless their demand for 45 cents an houi is granted. This means that about 600 skilled workmen vhll lay down their tools and force a stoppage of work at ship yards, bridge works and on the elevated railroad construction work now in progress in different parts of the city. ;