Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1893 — A GREAT STRIKE. [ARTICLE]

A GREAT STRIKE.

Seven Hundred Men Standing Out Again*! Extra Work. Seven hundred men are out at the Diamond plate-glftss-w’orks, in Kokomo, through a difference between employes of the grinding and polishing hulls and their employers. The men in these departments were asked to complete twelve benches each in ten hours, instead of eleven, as has been the rule heretofore. The grinders did not go to work Monday morning, but it was believed the differences would be adjusted before night. Monday night a committee from the polishing department called on Superintendent Elliott, and on being informed that an extra bench would be required in this department the polishers were also called out. This lias caused a general shut-down of tho mills, and as a vast majority of the men are members of tho Skilled Glass-Plate Workers’ Union of America It Is not likely that any part of the mills can be started until tho matter is settled.