Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1887 — INDUSTRIAL NOTES. [ARTICLE]

INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

Over 0,0(HI carpenters in Chicago went out on a strike for 35 cents an hour and eight hours a day. The master carpenters, at a mass meeting, decided to ignore the strikers and to pay only thirty cents an hour for an eight-hour day. It is alleged a pool has been formed to curtail the production of barbed wire, and that many mills will be closed, but will be paid a certain amount out of the earnings of (he mills in operation. It is iiuimnted that hundreds of men will be thrown out of employment. • It is proposed to amalgamate in one gigantic organization the National Federation of Miners nnd the Miners’ National Assembly of the Knights of Labor. The complications caused by the interstate commerce act are already having an injurious effect upon some of the Pittsburg iron mills. One firm had a large contract for sheet iron to be shipped to California, but freight rates have been so increased as to interfere with its fulfillment. Other mills with Western contracts will suspend unless they can get better rates.