The sun., 1883-12-23
THE DEMANDS OF LABOR.
MINERS OF THE FOURTH ROOF WIN
BEFORE THE kRBIfRATOR
The Strike or Third Fool Men Not n Failurs
Window Glass slowers stiii Out Wages
orMln Mnnds RedMced-Thc Iron Int e reat.


Window Gias. Hiower. st,ii Out Wages
ofMin Hands Reduced-The Iron Interest.
PITTSBURGH, Dec. 22.-Joseph d. Weeks,
umpire of the Coal Miners Arbitration Board.
appointed to decide the rate OF wages to be
paid In the fourth pool. announced his decision
tonight 1t was that the miners be paid
cents por bushel. This is all the miners do
manded. and q half cent per bushcl moro than
the operators wanted to pay. In announcing
his award the umpire said that whie the
operators claimed that there should DO dif-
ference OF half cent between tho price paid in
the first and fourth pools. they had failed to
show any good reason why the same figures
should not rule in both pools. The decision
was received with great rejoicing by tho miners.
The operators cannot be seen to- night. rs they
all live out of the city. 1t is believed. however.
that they will accept the decision.
President Costello OF the Miners Associa.
tion, who has returned from visit to the third
pool men. holds that the strike there was not
saIiHre Gdambo Rshers miners Hre on
time set for the strike. to avoid eompcatons.S con- o S
The strike Of the window glass workers ap.
was on the day IT was inaugurated, over four
months aga The man1facturers express their
the men Just rs sbSornWy y reiuse @ to nes scceSt w IT,
It now turns, out that the workers went one
Ss s h H s s e in ,Ss y
workers committee rejected the manufactur-
ers' proposition: they then presented their final
terms. which. after stating their willingness to
resume work Immediately at last years wages,
fosea Is & !a!!oWs: ; Th!s 9fler holds good until
fire. IRE Of or 6iast This threat simpy 'qn means ans
that II the manufacturers do not start their
factories at last years rate Of wages before the
first Of the year, the workers will not go to
work between that and June l: To meet this
import glass all winter and lot the factories
have complete years rest.
BosToN Dec. 22-The Lancaster Gingham
Mills. at Clinton. Mass. have announced to their
down in wages after Dec. 81. Tho amount OF
the proposed reduction is not stated.
PHILADELpHIA. Dec, 22.-Secretary Swank OF
the American Iron and Steel Association states
that the prices of iron and steel are about
steady at this time and rs the necessity for re-
recognized by producers. no. is inclined to
sion. He has advices from nll parts OF
tho country to tho effect that the labor
ing classes are yielding gracefully to the de-:
mands caused by the changed conditions OF
fact that wages have not declined in propor-
tion to the fall in prices OF iron and steel. The
present price Of steel rails is s2O.50 and the
consumption OF both iron and steel is about
REAp1so, Pa, Dec. 2S.HNotico was given to-
night for the closing indefinitely Of the Phila-
delphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company's
rail mill here on Jan. l. T. Three hundred hands
will be thrown out Of employment. The cause
ASSIGNED is dulness in the iron trade: This
the Philadelphia and Heading Railroad Com
pany, and also furnishes rails to other parties