Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1887 — INDUSTRIAL NOTES. [ARTICLE]

INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

The Cotton Council of New Orleans, an organization embracing laborers of all kinds engaged in handling cotton, has collapsed, after an existence of six years, marked by several strikes and riots. The strike of coke-workers in the Connellsville region for an advance in wages was inaugurated on the 4th inst. Over 13,000 men are idle, and not an oven in the district is in operation. During the month of April the number of strikes by or lockouts of industrial workers throughout the United States was 123, a total far in excess of the number in January Inst—ninety-two. The largest number of Btr.kers in April were in the building trades, about. 14.600; next the stove-molders, over 5,400; then “the ironworkers, about 2,300, whieh classes account for two-thirds of the total striking that month.... Muneie, Ind., has seven natural gas wells, and promises to become a great manufacturing center. The Union Steel Company, of Chicago, have 6hut down their steel and rail mill. Seven hundred nnd fifty men were locked out on the strength of a strike of twentyeight drillers, ehippers, and others. It is predicted that if the coke-worker6’ strike continues four weeks, every steelrail mill in the country will have to shnt down. The strikers profess to be confident of winning.