Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1886 — INDUSTRIAL NOTES. [ARTICLE]

INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

More than half the men in the stone quarries atLemont, 111., went on strike because some unmarried ones were asked to accept a reduction of wages. ~ Three thousand tanners are on a strike at Peabody and Salem, Mass! "* Eighty plantation negroes imported to Grape Creek, 111., to work in the coal mines, have been sent back South by the labor un : ons at Danville. Under a decision of the Vermilion County Court as to the coal company’s leases, all the wfhite strikers and their families have been evicted, and are improvising shanties and sod houses in the w00d5....T. V. Powderly addressed the Eastern association of green bottle-glass blowers at Atlantic City, and they voted by 42 to 26 to join the Knights of Labor. Trouble is anticipated among the miners on the Baltimore and Ohio Road. The Hon. W. L. Scott has a few men at work at the reduced price, who have signed his iron-clad agreement.... At Pittsburgh the •green bottle blowers’ convention adopted last year's scale of prices.