Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1887 — INDUSTRIAL. [ARTICLE]

INDUSTRIAL.

i The coke strike being settled in PennI' sylvariia, the'Chicago Rolling Mill Company has announced that it will recommence work. Another great lock-ont was begun by the carpenters in Chicago on Monday. The bosses insist that the ; men work nine Hours, while the workmen declare they ! 'rill work but" eight, and hence the lockout. i The trades and labor assembly of St. Paul, which embraces all the building trades except stonemasons; has ordered a qeperal strike Wednesday the 15th inst., unless the demands of the striking car penters are conceded. A weekly review of business shows an improvement both in crop reports and the financial situation, and says that but for the labor troubles aijd excessive specula- j tion the outlook would be entirely satisfactory. Money is in gpod" supply at all 1 points, and collections fair and improving, i The business failures in tho United States I and Canada for the seven days numbered 173, against 200 during the corresponding ! period of last year.

Owing to the coke famine caused by the strikers in the East, the blast furnaces nnd steel mill of the North Chicago Rolling -Mill Company, at South Chicago, were shut down Thursday night, throwing 1,300 men out of work. The Manufacturers’ association of brass and iron, steam, gas, and water work held a meeting at Cleveland, 0. Prices were regulated for the coming season, and voted to meet at St. Louis, Dec. 9. Colored men are to be admitted to the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, from which they have hitherto been excluded. The Master Builders of New York are reported as about to demand the protection of non-union men. Official'report has been made to- the executive board of the Knights of Labor declaring the strike in the coke region illegal, recommending that the knights re'tnrft to-work, and 'sustaining the awawL-of-the umpire.