Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-08-15
NO COMPROMISE.
Changes in the Constitution Of the Amalga-
mated AssOciation-All Quiet at Nc
Keesport-The Coal Miners Con-
Yention and Other Matters.
LATEST NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.
Special Dispatch TO The Register.

Special Dispatch 10 The Register.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, August 24.-The labor
meeting held in the Sixth ward this evening
was thinly attended. Armstrong, labor
candidate for Governor, spoke, and advised
a firm stand at the miners convention and
among the puddlers.
The delegates TO the Convention expect
to continue the strike. Provisions are
plenty and money IS forthcoming, accord
ing to the leaders statements. The rank
and file are uneasy. An iron.worker COM
planned, to-day. that he had only received
fifteen dollars from the Association, and
that at work he might have made sixty
dollars per month. 7-----s--
The National Tube Works OF McKeesport,
is running full with non-union men. The
meu are now broken in, and turn out good
work.
David Shaw, Superintendent Of the Sic
men Anderson Steel Company, goes to
Ontario, Canada, taking men from the steel
works here TO start new steel works.
Wages on the railroad have been reduced
from LAO to 81. 25 on account OF the sup
ply of labor by mill men.
interview with Secretary Martin.
PIrrsBUGH, August l4.-Mr. Martin, Sec
retary OF the Amalgamated Association, in
an interview since his return from the Chi
Cago Convention, says: The Amalgama-
ted Association is in q better condition to-
day than it has been at any time since its
organization. The convention We have just
held was the largest in our history. There
were two hundred and fourteen delegates
present, and the actions taken were the re-
suit OF aunanimous vote. Our constitution
has been amended and improved. One OF
the most important additions to our laws Is
q clause governing the method Of arranging
the scale In the past each district met
and adopted such basis for the scale as
best suited it, without consultation
with tine workmen of the other
districts. In the future this
Will Not be the Case.
The districts will hold annual meetings
- heretofore, but instead of fixing the
scale, each district will elect delegates, on
basis of one delegate To 800 members OF the
Association, 10 a meeting TO be held IN
Pittsburgh. This meeting will be called
each year in April, and ut it the scale will
be arranged and the committee OF confer
encr to meet the manufacturers will be ap-
pointed. This plan, while not interfering
with the rights of the districts, will give
more power TO the National Association, as
in this delegate meeting majority rules
What action did you take about that
Guarantee to the manufacturers
~ resolution was passed guaranteeing
the manufacturers that no advance would
be asked on the basis OF the scale for five
YEAR, to come. This does not mean that
the scale is 10
BE signed for Five Years.
but simply that for five years no advance
will be asked on pudding and rolling, but
the scale to be signed each year as has been
customary. This will remove the cause
iOr complaint on the part OF the manutac-
turers about the yearly discussions prior
To signing the scale"
What do you thing of so many mills
starting uun-UniOD|
1T will have no effect. We expected it
from the first and are not at all surprised.
When the strike is settled those non-uniOn
men will all be sent away
Did the convention take any action
tending toward a compromise"
NO. Anything of that case must come
from the manufacturers own side. We
have made no CvertureS of a compromise,
and are not likely TO do So Why should
we? The association was never stronger,
and has Just closed an harmonious cOnven-
ton. The manufacturers said the finish
ers meeting would break the strike and
the tinishcrs meeting came and went leay-
ing the strike intact; they said the conyen-
tiOn would tear the association TO pieces;
the convention is over and not q sign of
the downfall of the organization is to he
seen. We have no compromise to offer.
DO you know of any circular or letter
about the strike that has been prepared by
the association
Il do not, and can say there is no such
document in existence. IL there was Mr.
Jarrett or myself would know of il and we
are in total ignorance Of any such thing"
viii there be district meeting this
week.
Il think not None has been called yet"
All Quiet at MeKeesporL
PrTTSBURG, August IA dispatch from
MckeeSport states that matters were quiet,
though some excitement followed the ar
rest Of some Bradford parties Tor aSSault:ng
nOn-uuiOn men. The asSailantS had hear
ing this morning and were fined S25 and
costs each.
The blarksmith'S at Wilson & Walkers
mills, who were forced to go out when the
strike OF the puddlers quit work, returned
to their laborS this morning, an amicable
arrangement with all parties having been
arranged
At the bar mill of the Spang Iron and
Steel COmpany's works, SharpSburg a full
crew went to work this morning and all
was reported quiet at - Pm.
AT YOUNGSTOWN.