Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1886 — INDUSTRIAL NOTES [ARTICLE]

INDUSTRIAL NOTES

The strike of the Chicago lumbershbvers is at an end, the men having resumed work at the old basis Of time and pay.... Seven hundred tailors of Pitts- . . . Anew coke syndicate, backed by independent operators and by Baltimore and Pittsburgh capitalists, is being formedlto fight the old organization.... The St Louis furniture manufacturers who granted an eight-hour day to their employes, recently resolved to return to ten hours, on the ground that they are unable to compete with manufacturers of other cities whose employes work ten hours. All the* safe and lock workers of Cincinnati returned to work upon a compromise which grants nearly-10 per cent, to the workmen. The furniture men are the only ones now holding out in large numbers. Some of them are returning. The planing-mill men who have struck are not numerous. Twelve

I Reading (Pa.) cigar manufacturers have surrendered to the union. ' None of the city factories has been able to resume work with non-union men. Over seven hundred men are still idle on account of the strike. - Bradstreet’s Journal, in its review of thq labor troubles, says: “The grand total of industrial strikers for all reasons between April 24 and May 14 was about 250,000. The decline from that date to Monday last was marked, the aggregate on May 17 not exceeding 80,000 strikers for all causes. The report of strikes from cities and districts named on May 21 showed another heavy decline, owing in part to defeats of remaining agitators for eight hours at Chicago and the practical failure of the bituminous coal strikers. The total numlier on strike May 22 was 47,625. The totals presented during several weeks past naturally suggest an attempt to obtain an approximation as to the loss resulting. The totals suggest that quite $3,000,060 of wages have been sacrificed by 250,000 strikers within three weeks, causing a loss of certainly not less than $2,500,000 to employers from interruptions to business.” Further than this, accounts for $4,400,000 losses in deferred or canceled miscellaneous and industrial contracts. which reach into the future; and, lost of all, for $20,400,000 worth of building contracts... .The business failures occurring throughout the country during the week numbered for the United States 147, and for Canada 20, as compared with a total of 176 the preceding week and 192 the week previous to that. Business casualties seem to be steadily decreasing in number throughout the country... .The striking employes of the Michigan Car Company of Detroit voted to return to works at the old terms... .The strike of the journeymen plumbers, which has been in progress at Buffalo for. three weeks, was declared off on Friday. The men will resume work at the old rates. The sash, door, and blind manufacturers of Chicago have resolved to return to the ten-hour system. Their workmen held a meeting Sunday and resolved to insist upon a continuance of the eight-hour day, even at cut wages.... An attempt by the furniture manufacturers of St. Louis to return to the ten-hour system was met by a strike of two thousand employes.