Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1886 — INDUSTRIAL NOTES. [ARTICLE]

INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

The semi-annual statistical statement of the American Iron and Steel Association has received from the manufacturers complete statistics of the production of pig iron in the United States for the first six months of the present year. 1 The production amounted to 2,954,209 tons. The country has never before produced as much pig iron in the same time. The greatest absolute gain in production was made by Pennsylvania, but the greatest relative gain was made by Ohio and Alabama, each of whom greatly increased its production. New York, New Jersey, West Virginia, Tennessee. Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin also show an increase, (is do also Maine, Massachusetts, Maryland. Indiana, and Calif orma. Hands to the number of 325 in the Sibley Cotton Mills at Atlanta, Ga., were compelled to stop work on account of the st-ake of nine strippers. The entire mill taut down, throwing out 700 hands... ,’?he strike of the employes of the American Tube and Iron Company at, Middletc wn, Pa., has been declared off, and the aien* have returned to work. Those who think that the business, of the rolling-mills is not materially on Uie increase may be instructed to the contrary by a look at the report of the North (.fiieago Company for the year which en jsd with last June. The average number of men employed was 5.300, the pav-rjls aggregated, $2,550.000, and the ' gr.,ss earnings were nearly $9,000,000, leing $2,000,000 more than the business of the twelve months next preceding. Ihe material handled weighed 538.359 tons, being an increase of 35.15 per cent... The shoe manufacturers of Brockton, closed for an indefinite periods -The action affects forty factories, and the trouble grrw out of one of them refusing to discharge.a foreman who was objectionable to she Lasters' Union... .The Grape Creek (DH-

| noiz) Coal Company; which <spims to have : one hundred colored miners at work, has ;deoided not to employ any of the white strikers. Machinery is being placed in one of the mines.