Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1887 — INDUSTRIAL. [ARTICLE]

INDUSTRIAL.

All the glass factories in the country have shut down for thirty or sixty days. There is prospect of trouble between the employers and workmen in some branches of this industry over the question of wages and other matters. All the differences between the manufacturers and the iron and steel workers were amicably adjusted at a meeting in Pittsburgh, and the scale signed, so that there will be no strike. Concessions were made by both side’s. A strike is threatened at the Fort Wayne railroad shops in Allegheny City, Pa., which is likely to throw out of emyloyment between four and five hundred men. The trouble is canard by a new style of box car, on which there is almost twice as much labor .s. on the ordinary cars. The men ref use to work cm—them unless their wages are advanced, and recently sixteen carpenters quit work. Sympathy for the strikers is vpry strong in theother. departments, and unless there is a settlement a general strike is probable. The Master Masons' association has appointed a committee of five to act with a similar committee to be appointed by the bricklayers in Arbitrating the existing troubles. The committee was instructed to stand firmly by the de daration of principles recently promulgated by the as sedation, and insist upon its recognition as the basis of any settlement. It is estimated that since the inauguration of the strike in the coke region three 1 months ago,’ opera: ors and employes have .lost $750,000 in wages and profits. It is insisted that the operators are making ’ arrangements for a force of Pinkerton men to protect life and property.