Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1887 — INDUSTRIAL NOTES. [ARTICLE]

INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

An official circular from General Master Workman Powderly addressed to the order of the-Knights of Labor throughout the United States recommends that the next Fourth of July the members of the order, where there is an assembly in existence, hold demonstrations and celebrations in honor of the birth of a people’s government.... The Executive -Council' for Philadelphia ~ nnd vicinity of National Trades Assembly No. 198 (Knights of Labor) has issued a circular to nil machinists,, blacksmiths, foundrymen, patternmakers, boilermakers, aud the respective helpers of each, throughout America, appealing for assistance and c'o-openition from all members of the trades named. A Chicago dispatch says: “If an incident was needed to illustrate the disastrous results of the foolish demand made by the bricklayers the action taken by the Executive Committee in charge of the Chicago Auditorium Building at its meeting yesterday furnished a startling example. After a careful survey of the situation the committee unanimously decided to suspend all operations pending the settlement of-the labor troubles. The material which has been purchased xvill be piled aipund tiie site of the proposed building until a time) comes when progress can be uninterrupted. '

This mammoth enterprise would have | given steady employment for months to nearly one thousand men. Ttreycr with thousands of others, are made the victims of the blundering idioey | of a coterie of walking delegates. When ! Secretary Schoenthaler wrote the following notice upon the blackboard in the : Builders and Traders’ Exchange the signal I was given for the inauguration of the i greatest labor trouble, ever witnessed in I Chicago. It is impossible to estimate j what the result will be or where it will end. The notice read as follows: ‘All members ■ of the Master Masons now working men arc requested to. stop -work Friday night, May 13. :nd report to the Executive Committee. Joseph Downey. President. This step was taken after an earnest con-« stilthtion of members of Master Masons’Association with the leading dealers in building materials. A committee appointed at a previous meeting had carefully canvassed the material men and found them i unanimous in favor of aggressive measures, j The prevailing sentiment, was that the time | bad come to call a halt to the hitherto triumphant march of the blatant socialistic walking delegate. The Amalgamated lion and Steel Asso- I ciation at its meeting next month will ’ adopt a new scale, equivalent to. an ad- ■ vairce in wages all around of about 10 per ! cent The Lutheran Synod of Missouri, I which has beep in session at Fort Wayne, Ind., received a report from a committee appointed to investigate the Knights of Labor- The report'strongly condemn* the methods employed by the Knights, and the,l synod resolved to warn Lutherans against joining the order. The next meeting of j {the synod will be held at Milwaukee two] . years .c 7 - j v,ga The prospect of a speedy settlement of ■ the great strike in the build ng trades at j Chicago is now wholly dispelled. Both employers and men have formally resolved to stand firm and fight it out. whatever be the cost. A Chicago di-patch says: The representatives of the various building trades met and agreed to stand firmly together, 1 and refuse any and all offers loosing to com- j LP.W-ffiMßOri.tn..the.: torirklayers. iha maurai • : men renewed their agreement not to sell mate- * r.ai pending the strike, the architects, with some j reluctance, determined to lend tiieir in uence j to the employers m the fight, and the Vnited Trades Council met and concluded to antago- ■ n re the bricklayers in their fight, on tne ' ground that they ha I dragged .the other trades i into a needless trouble to Carrv a trivial point in their own interest. On the other hand, tne bricklayers agreed to stand by their demand fbj Saturday as pay-dav. and to refuse to work on any other terms, and thus matters stand.