Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-01-11
'soTH At HOME AND ABROAD.
DEshat WOrkmeu are Saying and DOING
H9ements Of Manufacturers
and the State Of the
Markets.
THE TRUTH.
|The s~itustion as IL Is-rhe Blame Places
on the Right Shoulders.

rhe s~ituston as Il Is-rhe Blame Placed
on the Right Shoulders.
In an article in last weeks American
Manufacturer, that paper tries to place the
blame for the reductions now going on in
rolling mills at the door Of the Amalga,
mated Association Of Iron and Steel Work
ers. But it won't work. To make this as
sertion true, the reductions that are are now
being wrung out Of men in rolling mills
where the Amslgamated Association exists,
and who do not belong toit, should be given
to those who are members But this is no.
done. 1t goes into the pockets Of the EN-
ployer. Therefore We don't propose to be
charged with goods or money that we don't
I. receive. The Amslgsmsted Association
has q scale of wages By which its members
work, and they propose to stick to it. By
Ding so they do not ask the manufacturers
4, bell their prOduet below the minimum
trd rate q! eents) upon which their wages
4fe based. Neither do they insist that the
Manufacturers shall sell their product a: a
higher figure than . cents in order to get
an advance in their wages. The question
oil advancing the wages Of those worsiug by
t1e scale during the year, from June to
2ene, is entirely in the hands of the manu-
fact1rers. In other words, if the latter dom
.seo6t to advance the price Of iron above >
cents the AmalgaRated Association men
get no advance in wages, no matter nov
much OF Sn advance other workmen IN the
miN snd In other trades get nor how much
fhe non trade would warrant il. We are
wiiing that the manufacturers shall %contFo.
~tiftesliDv Of members Of the Amal-lmated
AEoeiation thus far, but We are no. exactly
r&F neither are we willing, TO permit
th<i4 10 run theiE wages down below a pom:
cn Ntich they coa9 not live deeently. We
f3 n6t mean by this that the wages paid
t1aN be sufficient 70 enable them TO build
so1hfs. or houses at a cost of $4,000 each
* tbile away the summer months in Ea-
r1<e or hold high carnival periodically. All
t1ey ask, and all they are getting, the way
t<fle is. is lust enough to live on, and IN
~5o1escaseS Dot that. But, our neighoOrS
WI say. how do the poor men live who are
paid lower wages, aud those wages still
further reduced? They don't hive. they
sieiPy stay; a state o. eking out an eE-
1sienee that our aeighbor never experienced
Nnawe hope never will. There IS no doubt
= t'9erence in the mode Of living Of the
k1<kmen alluded to. But is there IS much
>lence as there Is in the mode Of living
1e(<eeR the manufacturer and members OF
fh1 Amalgamated Association? The ans
Is too plain. Oar ueighbOr NAV say
that Il is no ones business how another
AFea Granted, and that IS q good reason
~ the Amslgamatel Association insisting
On getting enough On which 10 live ieceutly
ts hey ask.
Ken there is q boom IN iron and large
t<o6ls are being made the Amalgamsted
Association never goes 10 the maGutac-
1urers and demands q higher pvicet than that
~eontracted for In the scale. We are con-
TENT with il. though we know that during
Nueh times the manufacturers can afford to
oax SIS per ton for padding. We have
made ~ contract and We are willing to
ard nsN stand by 1t though we get bit.
Thoef(cre fix the causes OF REDUCTIONS where
theY izhtly belong-to extravagant living,
Wild specnlation high profits, large diyi-
dends, INSCRIPTIONS and ruinous compeh-
tion. &c. The Amalgamated Association
is At peace with all men, Y e no debts, and
hxse1rmOrse Of conscience owing to the
~ sss-y reductions made in the wages
a .qroling mill men not within its pale.
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