Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1887 — INDUSTRIAL NOTES. [ARTICLE]

INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

The Western Xail Association has advanced the price of nails 10 cents... .The Western Packers and Canners - Association held its annual convention at St. Louis.... The manufacturers and furnace m a n of the Shenango, Mahoning, and Wheeling districts met at Pittsburgh and entered a protest against the advance of coke, and asked that the prices be put back to $1.75 A

general strike of silk-dyers has commenced St Paterson, N. J. Another Boston street railway—the Cambridge line—has been tied up. Tbe strike of the 6,(100 Monongaliela River coal-miners is practicallv s -t----tled, as also the ’longshoremen's strike in New York. At the Champion mine, forty milrs north of Marquette, Mich., 500 men quit work because of the refusal of the superintendent to discharge a foreman. The Sheriff swore in deputies to preserve oriler. Owing to a difference of opinion with the suprintendent the employes of the. South Boston Horae Railroad struck in a body. The longshoremen's strike at New York having been declared off. there was a rush to secure places on |he piers... .The brassfounders' strike at Cincinnati has come to an end, the strikers agreeing that their employe™ should hire and discharge whoever they pleased. .. .Nearly two thousand employes of an iron mill at Middlesborough-on-Tees have withdrawn their demand for an advance in wages and resumed work..,. The Knights of Labor have purchased for their general headquarters a building ou North Broad street, Philadelphia, for $65,000.