Show Industrial The salient features of thc general industrial I in-dustrial situation continue to be like those which have been recounted from week to week for some months last It is noticeable noticea-ble that the daily press atleading industrial centers arefrom time to time recognizing the value of attempting to ascertain the number of industrial workers and others out of work There appears good reason to believe that Pittsburg contains as many such as at any previous time for a year past Thc World declares that there are 5000 idle workmen and 1wOlne111n New York city Chicago and Philadelphia each still have a large number on their hands Yet the fact remains that there are at present fewer visible signs of distress dis-tress among the socalled laboring classes taking the country over than then were in 187778 There are fewer of that peculiar pe-culiar genus the tramp extant and I except in special cases extreme destitution destitu-tion is not reported in communities where the greatest numbers are said to be out of work The Kensington carpet mill proprietors Philadelphia have offered concessions to their employes to induce the latter to return re-turn to work without success A small strike is announced among the Scranton Pa stovemolders caused by a question of shop regulation The Massillon Ohio caal strike has ended as has that at Hocking Valley where remaining old miners are anxious to get work at the lowest rate offered The award of 2l > c per bushel for mining in the Pittsburg railway pitts has been accepted by most of the miners altlnugh there is great dissatisfaction dis-satisfaction expressed Wages Iiave been reduced at the Baltimore lOOhio rolling mill Cumberland lId and by the Lick twaua Coal and Iron Company at Scian ton Pa The prospects for activity among the iron works RtYoung own Qhio mire biightoi Several 1 mills are running ou double lime and two ftllIJIt ire announced an-nounced to blow in soon In Virginia ihe Victoria furnace has blown out owiim to insufficient demand throwing 1200 employes out of work The Brifssels carpet car-pet department of the Lowell Manufacturing Manufac-turing Company has shut down altogether alto-gether by reason of the weavers strike which began two weeks ago and over 4M operatives are thus out of work Must of the striking weavers of the Wamsutta Cotton Mills at New Bedford have left the city The Falls Company of Norwich Comm idle since last autumn is resuming re-suming work in its large cotton mills An S per cent reduction of wages will gointo effect March 1st at the Codieco Coinpa nys cotton mills Dover N H Strikes of limited extent have been begun among the spinners at Troy Mill Fall River and lasters at C B Travis shoe factory Natick Mass |