The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-05-29
INDUSTRIAL AFFAIRS.
lMpEN0lNa IaoN WORKERS, srRIxE.
rAs s,asral Belief at Pitt.burrl !. tl.t Fro
lOns.d su,pen,lOn is Issritabls "A s.sti.
meat Ia Raror. Of Change In the
Scale Year from Juns to Jaly.

PrrrsBuRsH, May 2S-The situation Of
affairs between the iron manufacturers and
workmen is without marked change, and
it is generally believed prolonged sus.
pension is inevitable. Thursday next will
witness the expiration Of the existing
scale, and work will then be stopped in all
mills which up to that time have not
signed the new scale. That steel mills
will continue in operation is generally
understood, andit Is conceded also that q
few iron mills will sign the scale. With
these exceptions, however, the prospects
are that the iron mills in this region and
the West will shut down Friday next 10
continue closed for an indefinite period.
Secretary Martin; Of the Amalgamated
Association, doubts whether any mill
would be worked conditionally, inasmuch
as this is against the policy Of the cam
paign., The Secretary said that manuiac.
turers who nave called recently at the
headquarters expressed themselves iavora-
BILE TO change Of the scale year from June
lst to one month later, and q general
shut down in July and August. In Oliver
Bros. & Phillips Tenth street mill the dou.
BILE pudding furnaces are being torn out
to make way for single furnaces. As this
will take two months 1t Is not at all proba-
BILE the firm will sign thescale for this mill.
Secretary Martin Is under the impression
there are many other mills that contem.
plate extensive repairs, and because Of the
scale year ending with the present month
these repairs will begin in June. Were
the two months yearly shut agreed to all
this work would be thrown over to the hot
season and the iron workers be relieved OF
the most exacting labor Of the year.
THE MILLS THAT WILL NOT SIGN.
PITTSBURGH, May 2S.-From an official
source the following ia complete list Of
all iron mills in Pittsburgh and the West
which it is claimed will shut down on
Thursday night in consequence of the
strike that the workmen will inaugurate on
that date. The firms operating establish.
ments included Ia the list have refused to
sign the Amalgamated Association scale OF
wages, 1t is alleged, and lockout must be
the result. The list is as follows: |
Pittsburgh district: Twenty-nine firms,
many Of whom operate several mills under
one name.
Western, Pa, outside of the. Pittsburgh
district:, Eight rolling mills.
Cincinnati, O., district: Seven rolling
mills. ..
Wheeling, W. Va, district, which ex.
tends into Ohio: fourteen mills.
Ohio district, below Wheeling and
Louisville: Three mills, one OF which Is
now idle.
Mahoning Valley: Thirteen mills
Interior counties OF Ohio: Five mills.
The Lake counties. one mill.
Indiana, two mills. sf,. l
Illinois, four mills, one Of which is at
Chicago, and three at Belleville.
Wisconsin, one mill at Milwaukee.
Missouri, two. -.fFs
Michigan, two. Il
Nebraska, two. L:.I
This last does not embrace the steel
mills, which may or may not sign the
scale. At the Amalgamated headquarters
tonight the rumor is that i've or six
firms in Ohio and West Virguia,
mad or were about TO sign the
scale, was partly accredited. These
mills no doubt are omitted from the manu-
tacturers' list given. All the mills given
in the foregoing are operated by men in
the Amalgamated Association who will
strike. There are only twenty.three non.
union mills in the, United States. Thirty
thousand in all are employed in the rolling
mills, OF which number one in every five
are union men. About one third the entire
number are working in Pittsburgh. Il
keaie Not Pres nj ell at Cleveland.