Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1887 — INDUSTRIAL [ARTICLE]

INDUSTRIAL

A board of arbitration has been appointed to settle the Coal strike at Grape Cregk, Illinois, which has lasted over a year. There seems to be little prospect of a settlement of the wage dispute between the iron manufacturers and workmen at Pittsburgh. The manufacturers are still determined to resist the advance in wages and say they will close down their mills on the first of the month if the workmen insist upon their scale. The strike of the “N. Y. P. and 0,” ore docks of Cleveland, which lias been in progress for several weeks, is now said to be permanently settled. The men refused to work under contractor Smith, although he agreed to pay them $2 a day, and John Tod has secured the contract. Citizens of Niagara; Falls and Suspension Bridge, N. Y.. who employ persons who live in Canada, have been notified that if they continue to give these persons employment after July 1 the laws of the United States will be invoked against them. The Knights of Labor Executive have abandoned the strike of the Cleveland ore handlers, the men having refused to accept the terms ofsettlement made with the employers. The manufacturers of stamped and hollow iron ware’decided at Pittsburg, that it would be Impossible to concede the advanced wages demanded by the Amalgamated Association.