Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1887 — LABOR. [ARTICLE]

LABOR.

A Chicago dispatch of Wednesday says: “The lockout of workmen engaged in the building trades continues unabated, and competent authorities estimate that the army of idle men numbers 25.000. The employers seem to be rock-rooted in tbe Btadd which they have taken, and, while they regret tbe untoward condition of affairs at the most favorable portion of the building season, insist that until the mechanics recede from their unwarrantable demands in relation to the hiring of non-union labor and the employment of apprentices it would be useless to attempt a patebed-up peace. The German contingent of the Bricklayers’ Union does not seem to be satisfied with the situation of affairs.” The Knights of Labor have in a measure taken up the cause of the locked-out bricklayers in Chicago, and are discussing the propriety of retaining counsel to prosecute for conspiracy the material dealers who refuse to sell brick, lime, rand, etc., unless they be granted n permit to do so by the Builders and Traders’ Exchange. The Knights claim to have funds enough to pay tbe expenses of the prosecution, and it is rumored that they intend retaining “Bob” Ingersoll or “Ben” Butler.... A mob of negro and Hungarian strikers attacked coke-workers at Jimtownaud Dawson, Pa., using clubs and p'stols. A number of persons were wounded and a large amount of property destroyed.