Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-04-05
THE IRON SCALE.
A Two Cent Bar Basis aad Ten Per
Cent. OF finrshers-A Change
Of Base From Bar to
Sheet Iron.
OPINIONS OF PRESIDENT JARRETT.

PITTSBURGH. April 4.-The Telegraph
says: The annual delegate scale meeting
Of the Amalgamated Association Of Iron
and Steel Workers will be held In the ball
OF the Tradesman's National Bank build
ing, corner OF Fourth avenue and Wood
street, on Saturday next The object ofths
meeting is 10 hear reports from al the die.
tricts Of the association In regard 70 sus.
Sestions that have been made relative 10
change OF terms or price in the yearly scale
agreement for the coming year; to consider
the same, and decide which shall be part Of
the proposition at the May conference al
the committees Of employers and employees.
The suggestions made originally in the In.
dividval lodges were before district meet.
ings last month, on which occasion dele.
gates TO the convention OF April 7th were
selected, and those that were retained %
worthy OF final discussion will now 90
through that ordeal.
1t Is understood that
Ne Radical Change
has been proposed by any Of the lodges, %
far as price Is concerned, but the general
disposition IL to maintain the old standard
as near a. possible. The main question
will very probably be on the substitution Of
sheet as basis instead OF bar. - has here.
tofore been the case. Th,rs 10 nothing new
in the agitation OF this matter, Il having
been mooted last year, though Il did not
take shape and substance sufficient 10 form
an official proposition. The Association
holds that common bar 10 not Q fair basis,
inasmuch rs comparatively little OF IL 10
sold, and the price could be run down at
any time below profitable rates In order 70
bring the labor on all other grades down In
The Ma.snaetsrers,
II is thought, will propose . common bar
basis with the prices down to two cent
card instead OF two and one. half - at
present; thrt is to say they want IS per ton
for pudding when common bar 10 selling
at two cents. This Is the same ratio'as the
wages Of this year, but at present the work.
mems card does not go below two and Q
half cents. Therefore, however Low ir0u
sells land II 10 selling now st two cents for
common bar, and has sold % low - one
and seven.t .tenthS the labor receives com.
pensation the same N though two and .
half cents were the market rate. Ia ajdi.
ton TO this, and to correspond with Il, the
fnishers will be reduced ten per ONT
The Ostlosk Jsst Rev
is rather favorable TO good feeling aud
amicable settlement. II II recognized on
the part OF thinking workmen that the
new tariff has done home industries bad
turn, and they.Ars willing 10 take . fair
share OF the foul weather; but they syi.
IDENTIFY fancy there 10 something little
better in store for them than the necessity
TO concede two cent common bar basis
for pudalers and ten per cent. OF for hn.
ishers. These will have TO he shown them
very clearly that this must be done 10 pro
vent inroads OF foreign manufactures be-
fore they agree, and even In case this b
proven 10 them the strong probabilities are
that they will urge the sheet iron sbstui.
tute.
OF the Amalgamated Association, stated 70
a reporter OF this paper that he regarded
man ufacturers and workmen % being In Q
Tranquil frame of mind ~ to the May con-
fsrence. His resume OF the situation. nec-
essarily guarded in language, as . man In
official position must be, was In oil the o..
seniials as given In the foregoing. 81
shall" said he, state the precise condition
OF Affairs bearing on our trades. ~ under.
stand them TO be. and shall then rest on
my oars. will not consent 70 iterate and
reiterate the position OF things a. was the
case last year. There shall be straightfor.
ward business 20 for o. in me lies, and no
whoop hurlb. There 10 nothing 70 bad ~
TO 10 into business matter % elhubsf-
sntly that the parties are willingly blind
ed as 10 some OF the phases oi this quesiioo
st issue. want no temper from the man.
ufacturers and will not be the medium of
any from any Of the members OF the asso-
ciation"