Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1887 — INDUSTRIAL NOTES. [ARTICLE]

INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

I 1 A New York dispatch says “the extension of the.etrike to ihe freight->handlerson tbe railroad piers of New York is the most I serious blow to commerce that the union 1 men have struck. The effect of it on one I road, the Jersey Central, was an almost I complete suspension of business." A Lowj ell (Mass.) telegram says “the strikes in : New York City seriously affect the business i interests of this city. If they continue 1 much longer the loss to mercantile and | manufacturing industries will ,be disasi trous." A Chicago dispatch says the Knights of Labor, in pursuance of their intention to exterminate Philip D. Armour, tbe great meat packer, “have placed a boycott on' nearly 30U Chicago tirms which are using his goods. A move of this kind is stu- ! pendous, and it is one of the most importI ant ever made on the part of the Knights since the establishment of their organization. They recognize in Armour the power that crushed them in the stock-yards strikes, and by forcing him to succumb they think | they would only be exercising justifiable ; retaliatory measures. They do not care so | much about the other influential packers, ! but in Mr. Arniour they say they have | found an avowed enemy to their cause, and in the hope of- crushing him they have not only boycotted his firm throughout the country, but they now propose to trea j similarly those wholesale and retail dealers • who purchase and sell his products.” Ax a meeting of window-glass manufaet-" urers, at Pittsburgh, the Eastern and Western organizations consolidated, perfected a pooling arrangement, and decided to at once advance prices sto 74 per cent. .. .A New York dispatch of Friday says: “The liver fronts are practically in a state of siege. One thousand police have been massed in reserve at four different points. Patrol wagons have been stationed at each place, so that the whole force can be concentrated at a given point in a short time. The 1,000 men can handle many times that number of rioters. One thousand more are in reserve at police headquarters." .Seven hundred _ men employed at Sharpsville, Pa., struck for an advance of twenty-five cents a-day. An offer of a 10 per cent, advance was refused. The meltem in all the crucible steel works in Pittsburgh have made a demand for an advance in wages of- - I~> per cent. Five theus rul men are interested. An order has been posted in Philadelphia clothing hons'es locking out all the cutters. The order affects several thousand employes. .. .Testimony is being taken in New York as 'to the cause of the present strikes. The strikers contend that the troubles were precipitated bv an attempted reduction of the wages of topmen at F.lizabetliport and Port Johnson, and that it would be remedied-by restoring Elizabethport rates. _____