Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1890 — SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. [ARTICLE]

SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

The Illinois Steel Company, of Joliet, for the second time divided $4,000 among its employees ivs their share of the quarterly profits. t , All the coal mines in the Morris (111 ) district have suspended Operations because of a disagreement between the nompany and the laborers. The operators recently raised the price of coal twenty-fiyc cents per ton, and the workmen demanded an increase of wages at the rate of ten cents per ton, but were refused. Now ihere ia a strike in progress. Thomas Rhoads dismissed 167 employes from hie morocco factory last Saturday, in accordance witn the resolution of the National Morocco Manufacturers’ Association to dispense with the services of all Knights of Labor, These men refused to leave the order and were therefore discharged. It is said that the manufacturer will shut down for a short time and then start a non-union shop. The threat of a gigantic strike among the Western Union telegraph operators is said to have been withdrawn. The members of the Brotherhood at Omaha. Neb., agreed to withdraw from lhe_order, on condition of immediate reinstatement. The operators at St. Paul. Minn 1 and other eities, were sent back to work by an emphatic message from the Brotherhood headquarters, and the Chicago operators were forbidden to participate in the strike.