Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1886 — INDUSTRIAL NOTES. [ARTICLE]

INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

A tar pool has been formed, and' tlio price of that article advanced. A commissioner lias been appointed, with power to destroy tar when the market is overstocked, a sum equal to the cost price of the surplus tar to be paid to the contractor in, whose possession it was. The determination of the Chicago packers to return to the ten-hour system was met by a strike of nearly eight thousand workmen. -A force of 150 specials was sent to the Stock Y'ards by Pinkerton to protect property. The brewers of Detroit have organized to resist all demands of the Brewers’ Union, and a general strike is expected to result.