Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1886 — INDUSTRIAL NOTES. [ARTICLE]

INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

The strike of the molders at Troy. N. Y'., has been .settled, the men having accepted the manufacturers' terms, and work will be resumed immediately... .The harness manufacturers -of the United States, in convention at Pittsburgh, permanently organized under the name of the National Association of Saddlery and Harness Manufacturers. Owen C-Gothright, of Louisville, was elected President. The object of the association is protection against strikes. The convention adjourned at noon to meet in New York next month. The great strike of the'hailers, which has lasted over a year, was settled at a conference of the manufacturers and their employes at Pittsburgh last week. The Mingo compromise scale of eighteen cents oh a s*2 selling card, which was offered by the workmen, was rejected, and the following scale agreed upon: Seventeen cents on a $2 card with an advance of one cent for every increase of twenty-five cents in the selling price... .The Roane Iron Company will presently resume operations in .their rail mill at Chattanooga, which has been idle for five years. The Lake Shore switchmen in the vicinqui#wprkisstw*ek because eight non-union men have not been discharged, in accordance with a pledge made to them by Sheriff Hanchett early in May.

I The strikers derailed a number of freight ! cars and delayed passenger lr.uns. The j police had to resort to their club* to pre*. ] vent greater damage. The railroad officials are firm in their determination to tight to j the end» « The Iron Molders’ Union of Cleveland and Pittsburgh refuted to be absorbed by 1 the Knigbts of Lal>or. .. .About one thou--1 sand miners at Grape Creek, 111., who J Stock last moot!* foe the- Prttwtmi gh Scale ; wages, are now being’ forcibly evicted from the houses owned by the TJOip- ] pany, and have gone into the woods with their families, to subsist on percentages from the union A Chicago dispatch reports an exciting incident in eOnne'ction with the strike of the switchmen on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad: “An engine and caboose of the Lake Shore Road, carrying a large party of Pinkerton detectives and Town of Lake police, undertook to teach Euglewc od: The striking switchmen seized engines belonging to the St. Paul and Nickel-Plate Roads aud gave chase, capturing the Lake Shore train at Grand Crossing,- and hauling it thick to the round-house at Forty-third street. When the officers fired upon the strikers, during the face, many of the latter leaped off. John Newell, manager of the Lake Shore Road, notified.. Sheriff Hancbett and his I>ondsmen that they will be held liable forall damages that may accrue from riotous proceedings. ” Iron men all over the country are deeply interested in the doings of the Gogebic iron syndicate, made up of Cleveland, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, Toledo, and Dayton capitalists. Nearly $200,000 has already been invested in the . work. The syndicate’s stock is $5,000,000. An explorploring and developing fund of $500,000 has been set aside. It is estimated that the new converters now in process of erection will require from 300,000 to 500,000 tons of Bessemer ores annually, and that the Gogebic ores will be able to displace from 400,000 to 500,000 tons of foreign ores.