Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1887 — INDUSTRIAL [ARTICLE]

INDUSTRIAL

-The -fitst. train run wes t of- the Allegheny I Mountains with crude pretrojeum as the fuel in its locomotive tender arrived at Pittsburgh, l’a., on time, and there was no annoyance to the passengers from smoke or cinders. The Hungarians at the Sterling and Jimtown Coke Works, in Pennsylvania, returned to wOrk Thursday at old rates, which is considered equivalent to a breaking no of the strike. The new scale of prices given out by the Amalgamated Association at Pittsburgh, Wednesday ; it is an advance generally of 10 per cent, on the lower rates, and a number Of new stipulations fire made. The manufacturers say they will not grant the advance. ;

The strike of all the building trades in St, Paul, Minn., was inaugurated Wednesday. There was no disturbance, the men leaving the’r work quietly. It is said the plumbers and plasterers will join the strikers.. The strikers at the Pennsylvania Salt Works at Natrona, Pa., have been served with writs ordering; them to vacate the company’s house on or before the first Monday in July. The alternative is eviction. The Crozier Iron and Steel company at Philadelphia, has mado an assignment for the benefit of its creditors. The preferred creditors amount to $378,000. The works are locate J at Roanoke, Va., and the principal owner is Samuel A. Crozier of the Chester rolling-mills, Pennsylvania, who is rated at from $1,‘000,000 to $3,000,000. The iron manufacturers assert they will resist any claim for an advance of wages made by the Amalgamated Association, but are willing to sign last year's scale. The workmen will demand an increase of about 11 per cent. The date of the conference between committees of the employers and men has not yet been fixed.