Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1887 — INDUSTRIAL NOTES. [ARTICLE]

INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

i The nail factory, pljde mill, and cooper shop of the Bay View i Wis.) iron works will, it is r. ported, be. closed for au indefinite period. A Chicago dispatch says that “John Jarrett of Pittsburg. William H. Muldoon of District Assembly No. 57, Mr. O. W. Potter of the North Chicago rolling mills, and Alderman O. D. Wetherell, who acte.d as umpire, were in s. ssion for the las'l few days and agreed upon a new scale of wages demanded by the men. The wages of the men were advanced about 9 per cent. The company will pay them for time and a half while engaged in certain lines of work dangerous to-their health, and will engage extra men to relieve those who desire not to work Sundays. The agreement has effect in the mills at Iron dale. Sooth Chicago, North Chicago. Bridgeport, Joliet, Hammond. and Milwaukee, and dates from January 1.” At a meet'ng of wrought iron pipe manufacturers at Pittsburgh, last year's prices were reaffirmed. Business reported as in a favorable condition _i_ Wobk on a new iron mine near Marquette, Mich., has begun, and great results are anticipated... .The Pittsburgh master painters refuse to sign the scale presented

by the journeymen or to recognize the union men as a body of Knight* of Lalx>r. At a meeting of tli*i coal managers in New York it was decided to restrict the production of anthracite for the month of April to 2,251),000 tons. In the coal combination caie at Harrisburg, Pa., being an action to enjoin the companies from combining in the matter of output, all of the evidence has been heard, anil the court reserves its decision. The Pittsburgh coal operators met and declared they will not,accept the railroad eonl rates to the lakes, which hive been raised from 85 to 95 cents a ton.