The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-11-13
,,,.,.m the Pittsburgh Dispatch.


.,. General Wish TO Avoid =
strike or Lockout.
,.-.,, ,n,. Pittsburgh Dispatch.
Tho nublic have already been sppris-
r,|,h,. G,ct that difference has sprung
.L..,vrrE the iron manufacturers OF this
'" =. and their employees respecting the
,ri,. Of labor. The manufacturers want
t-..3ur,ion. and claim that unless one be
n,wrd their mills will have to close,
mn a." ,be other hand, the workingmcn
rIJ that existing rates are no more than
.,i- -rsy and profess belief that the
% %ani!.Ii,,s can afford to live up to the
.Ss,. without embarrassing tnem-
.'yr. Committees appointed by both
,.r,i,., ARE now holding conference
!,r tb, purpose, ifpossible, of determin-
,ppoi, = compromise in which the
....t,! Of each will be regarded and a sris-
r.,,.iou Of work avoided. Mill owners
5rJ nudIlcrs scem to,understand equally
n..Ilthr mutual misfortune of such dis
..,r.r,u.ut a, would result in lockout
"-a .,rikr. But the puddlers say that
,I. .,qtrmcntS of the case which have
irber,o appeared in the press, while no
I,Yht honestly meant, have been rather
Martial. They insist that though all the
i,i,.,. capable of being construed in favor
a.,br manufacturer have been presented,
Offset, and counter points on behalf Of
the hand, have been overlooked.
REPRESENTATIVE WORKER.
With the purpose of giving fair show
;gr ,n nnr Il, we'll aS the other reporter
of,hi, paper Yesterday called upon an
iron worker. an intelligent and respected
representative of the "horny handed" "
who never figures aS an orator upon the
r.,lr> or wrongs of labor, but is yet in :.
r.i,ion tomakc fair estimate oftrvublcs
Ikr thi, now pending. He said it was
,-l. that the reports which hitherto APP
r,,,rrd in the press were rather partial.
ii WA, however, he thought it would
be-. better IT, let them stand than put IN
any rrbu,tul which might interfere with
the negotiation, for compromise. The
mill hands. he said, did not court this dit
ference: il was not of their making, and
they wished to have it settled amicably
rather than indulge in bitter disputes.
They we're particularly avcrse to lock-
OH, or II strike But at the same time
they had arguments on their side that
invited presentation rs well Us the pleas
ON the other.
PRE>ENT RATES FINED BY MILL OWNERS.
BY whom WAS the pending difficulty
brought up inquired our reporter.
"By the manufacturers, certainl Y. This
Sliding scale of prices that they now
wish to abrogate was their own PROPOSE
ton. They asked that the price of labor
in their mills should go up or down, ac-
coriirg Il, the card rates for iron went up
or down. iNing the terms themselves,
and maNm. provision for thirty days
motto" before either party could recedc
from those terms. Under that agree
men, the puddl"rS have been receiving
- per ton. iron selling at 3 cents. Such
a reduction ~ the mill owners now pro-
pose would bring the puddlers pay down
promh.y 10 - per ton.
Tot HING THE DEMAND AND fhi' ES.
But the manufacturers claim that iron
j, uu longer selling for thrr" cents. They
,ay il rau hr lought at ., and as the
Siding scale heretofore established makes
no provision iur reduction of wages
Upan ANY reduction of card rates below
three cents, they hold it equitable that
the seal" should be- altrrcd?'
That looks very well, responded the
operative. hut You must remember that
n" manufacturers make their own card
rates. ltthry make them at ) cents,
AMI then uudprScil their own standard, II
does not seem exactly fair that the work
iuguurm should be- the sole sufferers, rs II
j, proposed they shall be i'll the present
Instance.
"Ntiil, the manufacturers insist that the
panic has played the duce with the de-
mand for IRON; that orders are slower than
usual and that general depression OF
sU,.ur>s makes the decline in the price oil
iron unav"ilahlc?'
A great deal of that talk about the
drpr">>ird of business is buncombe. The
mill, in and around Pittsburgh are, tor
the most part, doing fine business, par
ucuarly those that manufacture special
lies Good iron is in lively demand, no
matter what is said To the contrary. l
know of mills where the demand has
been such for sometime past, that iron
ha> 10 be- shipped almost hot. But OF
course if what are called enterprlslng
firms 20 around undcrselling one another
lh" price goes down. The increased sales
"partie~ who follow this practice Will
probably make up for the decrease OF
price" and perhaps insure larger aggre-
gate profit, too. The workingman Is the
only one who suffers.
nIGH COST OF LIvINGIN PITTSBURGH.
You doubtless saw tabular statement
IN Saturdays Dispatch" suggested our
frpnTter, giving the prices for boiling or
pudding in the East. 1t showed that
while Your Pittsburgh puddlcrs were re-
CrivlnC So per ton, those of Scranton,
Troy, Harrisburg. Reading, New Jersey
and Bethlehem, were getting much less
the rates AT some of these places being
Ss I"w ~ 81 90 and S3 80
This may be, but you must take
very important fact into consideration
II i one thing to work and live in Pitts
hourgh, another to work and live in the
East. have been AT many of the places
YOU have mentioned and know something
"t the difference in the cost of living
lou can rent houses in the East for -
and SO per month, while here yoa can.
not get house for less than SO or sSI
and avery poor one it will be at that
- IN regard to the other necessities OF
HE. | think anybody who will take th'
Trouble Of making a comparison mus'
md that the difference between tho
prices of pudding in Pittsburgh and the
prices in the East is very soon eaten W
IN this way.
fvDDLING, q THEEHARDEsT SORT OF
WORK.
Are there any other points that
might be made in favor of the working
men?'
"l leS there are are a great MANY 9TH