Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1887 — INDUSTRIAL NOTES. [ARTICLE]

INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

The trouble between the two labor organizations, the Knights of Labor and the Amalgamated Association of Miners and Mine Laborers, was adjusted at a conference of the leaders in Pittsburgh. Mr. Philip D. Armour, who has just returned to Chicago from an extended trip through the South and far West, 6ays there is a boom in everything and everywhere throughout these sections. The earmarks of prosperity and enterprise could be seen above the ground in all directions. The South was alive with the signs of vigor, advancement, and development, and oh the Pacific coast the outlook was even more promising. The cotton factors and buyers of New Orleans have resolved. to employ no members of the labor unions. .. .The railroad coal operators of the Pittsburgh District who ship to Western points have foniied an association for the maintenance of a uniform selling price of coal. < Eighty per cent, .of the firms shipping West, and representing $12,000,0011 capital, have joined the pool. The volume of business transacted in Chicago for the first quarter, of ISS7 shows an increase in all the leading lines of 10 to 50 per cent, over of that of the corresponding period of 1886. The increase is especially marked in hardware, clothing, dry | goods, millinery, and lumber. ,