The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-04-18
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THE Observation-Disclosures


After June list nt the Iron NILS a
FiitSbnFgh and wheeling.
Dispatch Of yOstCrlAy.
The district delegate meeting Of tn
Amalgamatcd Association was held O
Saturday at Schiller Hail. President job
jarrett preaidcd, and the session iaste,
from . o'clock to halt.past s in the even
Ing Tho result was genuine surprise !
mill men, and doubtless was unexpecte,
by numbers Of the iron.workeB them
selves. 1t was decided TO submit Us tn
decision OF the association that tho pric
oil boiling must be advanced 80 cents pc
ton making it 81 per ton when the carr
rate for bar iron is2i cents or under
With 90 cents more for each advance o
half Il cent per pound. This advances tht
muck rollers scale from Gs9 to 10 cents pc
ton, OR one-cighth Of the price Of boiling
Ten cents extra will be charged per ton fol
working old files or iagots' Into finished
iron. Sheet rolling is advanced 10 pei
cent, with extra prices in certain gauges
The scraprer scale is advanced from 81 tc
g % for piles and boards, half price to be
paid for basheling on sand or eiader bot.
tom. When sheet iron and scrap are
worked together the price is 10 be
81 so. The l;noblers' ton must be reduced
from 2,4G0 pounds to $3.50 pounds. When
working sheet or swarf the mice is
81 80 per ton. A scale was also arranged
for engineers, based OF 81 % per day on a
q card, A committee WIS appointed to
confer with the manufacturers. This CON.
mittee will meet with the manufacturers ut
the Iron Association rooms at o'clock this
AFTERNOON. June3 WIS fixed MS the date OF
the picnic ut Beaver Falls.
II will be noticed that the association
has taken time by the iorelock, and pro.
muIgated its terms nearly II month earlier
than has been the custom heretofore. thus
giving ample time for discussion pro and
con. A Dispatch reporter, who visited a
number OF iron manufacturers yesterday
afternoon, found q universal feeling OF sur.
prise at the turn Affairs had taken, and
more or less emphatic in determination
not to agree to the terms proposed.
TUE MANUFACTURERS SIDE.
A. NJ. Byers, OF the firm Of Byers 4 Co.,
when asked what course the iron men
would take, said: 81 don't know. haven't
had time to talk with them. But know
that trade can't stand the advance. nm
positive OF that. The reason? Its very
that it is costing too much now to
prodnce iron Mt the price we are getting for
it The card rate is q cents, but have re-
liable information that sales have been
made within the past few days for q cents
and have no hesit0nCy in saying that l
can go into the marketnow and get all that
| want at that figure: Ina gcnerat way the
mills are depressed and want orders. In
various parts OF the country manufacturers
have been seriously thinking OF reducing
their production by changing from double
to single turn because stocks are accu-
and no prudent man wants
70 pile up stocks with pig at S25,
boiling at s. 80 and everything else
IN proportion when prices have decided
downward tendency. Other places both
East and West have reduced the cost OF
.he labor. l understand that has been
lone in Youngstown and in the Mahoning
md Shenango valleys. | could not est.
mate the reduction. In many Cases de-
nands have been made and followed by
and il would be huld to fol-
low them all. The East is enabled now to
produce iron much more Cheaply than
Pittsburgh. We are getting no orders from
the East now. Generally half the product
Of the Pittsburgh mills in bar, sheet, rods,
shapes, gas-pipc iron and various forms is
sold there. Besides having labor at lower
tignrPst they have cheap fuel, especially
those in the midst OF the anthracite coal
regions" d.
THINKS THE SCALES TOO HIGH ALREADY.
30 you object to any one part of the
terms Of the association more than an
other"
"fhe advance is uncalied for on any OF
the points, but some OF the scales to-day are
too high. Muck rolling, for in
stance, is out OF NtI proportion to anything
else. The sheet mill is regarded BY manu-
facturers as altogether too high, and yet
see they ask an advance along with the
rest. The price was put up to S. so for
boiling when the card rate was 81 cents,
The market was good when the card rate
was Sand ! cents, and We didn't anticipate
that the price was 10 fall below that. Dur
ing the panic bar iron went down us low
us cents, and yet We mud to pay on n q
cent scale, and duriHgall that time the iron
men were continually going to the wall
the couldn't stond it, During December
and JANUARY iron ranged from to2l cents,
and it hns been only during the last three
months that we have been able to get it up
to TINT point.
1.-THE manufacturers feel blue and de-
pressed. Where they expected good prices
and large sales they have realized neither.
| never saw things so dropping and dull.
The action OF the AmnIgamated Associa.
ton is very ill.timed. | think il the
manufacturers take all the risk and keep
the mills running at present prices the
wOrkmen will be getting all that they can
reasonably expect, Indeed, it was talked
OF seriously among the members Of the
Iron Association to call 4 meeting and
have the scale reduced"
PITTSBURGH FORGE AND IRON COMPANY.
Calvin Wells, Of the Pittsburgh Forge
and Iron Company, had just returned from
a trip through the East yesterday. When
asked what he thought of the proposed
scale, he said: "It's the most suicidal Thing
the men can do. 1t means Nn advance nil
along the line, and very considerable in-
crease in the cost per ton OF producing iron
OF NIL kinds. | doubt very much that they
will finally urge it, think the men are
too well posted OH the actual con-.
dition Of trade to insist on such demands.
The action Of the association surprised me,
very much, and think they viii finally
come to the conclusion that tits bad policy
to push them"
"How did you find business outside of