Morning journal and courier., 1886-05-08
THE INDUSTRIAL SITUATION.

General Notes-Afairs 1n This City
 And Elsewhere in the State.
 The situation regards the carriage makers strike remains unchanged. At sev- eral of the shops they have all the hands re- and at the others hands are occasionally be- ing added, some of them being returning strikers, others new ones from out of town.
 AT REYNOLDS & co.'s.
 At Reynolds & Co.'s yesterday report in the Morning News that the concern had ar bitrated with Knight of Labor committee and raised the pay of it's hands 16 per cent was emphatically denied by the bookkeeper, who said the facts were that MT. Reynolds had not written to the executive committee Knights of Labor at all. He had agreed to grant the men who applied for work at his shop an increase of 10 per cent, reserving the right to select whom he would receive back into his employ. Only small number of the hands have returned to work thus far. The firm employs in busy times from 125 to 150 men. MT. Reynolds, speaking of the situa- tion, said the labor troubles and upheavals throughout the country had knocked busi- ness generally. His own branch of trade suffered like the rest. In consequence there was not half business enough to employ all the old force, and business was in such state that it was losing thing to keep the shop running
 INCREASED WAGES AT CoLLINSvILLE.
 The Collins company of Coll;nsville, one of the largest manufactories of axes and other edge tools in the coun- try, has voluntarily raised it's scale of wages in it's principal departments to the rate paid in 1884. The relations be- tween the company and it's employees have al ways been the most friendly and they are likely to remain so, and the result is found in the superior quality of work produced A few months ago President Sears adopted the policy of paying wages either weekly or monthly at the option of the employe, thus satisfying those who wanted the weekly sys- tenn and at the same time not disturbing many who preferred the old way.
 PRICES GO HIGHER.
 Said prominent builder yesterday: It is a simple problem. We.all want the work ingman well paid God speed the day if it comes in this world when men can all live without doing any more work than is good for them. But here is the plain, blunt fact. If wages go up prices go up. So the work ingman get more pay, and it costs him more to live What better off is he then? Now what can be plainer than if prices of labor go up the cost of production is higher, and prices go up in exact proportion. It will cost the laboring man more for beef, four, coffee, tea and house rent as the result of all this agitation and increase of wages.
 A VOLUNTARY RAISE.
 The proprietor of the New Haven staple works has voluntarily given each Saturday afternoon to his workmen as holiday with out cutting down their pay.
 DOCTORS AND EIGHT HOURS.
 A New Haven physician said yesterday, speaking of the eight hour demand of labor: What association or organization can relieve the overworked physician and limit him to eight hours work? I have frequently work ed fifteen hours day and then have hardly composed myself for a nights rest when or dered out, not by a committee, to be sure, but in response to call of suffering, and tired and exhausted as was there was no help for it. So out bounced and worked four hours more, only to be summoned up at the usual hour next morning to keep my office hours. But what laboring man works harder?