Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-07-16
THE BIG LOCKOUT.
THE MANUFACTURERS ALL At SEA.
May End in the Disruption Of the Western
Iron Association.

PIrTsBURa, July 1.-THE lockout OF the
iron workers has assumed an entirely differ
ent aspect to-day.
According to the statements of repre-
sentative manufacturer there may be de-
velopments next week which will result In
the disruption of the Western Iron Associ-
ton, with the result that in the future
there will be no committee of msnutactur-
ers to confer with the Amaleamated Asso-
citation upon the scale of wages each year.
There are still about fifty firms in the
Association that have refused to sign the
scale. They have stood firmly together
since the lockout was inauguratsd, and,
Is they say, have done just as they stated
would be their policy previous TO the lock-
out. It is said these firms are still OPP
posed to signing the scale on account OF
the depressed condition of the iron marker,
but that the situation has now resolved
itself into question whether to sign the
scale or to lose their trade.
A meeting of the manufacturers will
probably be held the first of next week.
The official call has not yet been issued,
but il comes from q most reliable sourc,
that meelipg is contemplated. Mr.. A. +.
Heating, when seen this morning, stated
that it was true that meeting would
likely fe held the first of the week. He
said that the fifty or more firms that had
refused to sign the scale were acting IN
good faith and that "a some Of the others
had signed, that il was unjust to ask the
others to still maintain the attitude in
which they had been from the very begin
ming of the lockout.
1t also comes from high authority that
Mr.. A. F.
HEATING WILL TENDER HIS RESIGNATION
as President of the Western Iron Associa-
ton. Ii is said that he will refuse to con-
tinue in position where there is so much
work with the result that it was all to no
purpose. 1t the meeting next week 1t IL
expected that it will be left with each firm
to pursue it's own course in the matter OF
signing the scale.
The signing of the scale by some firms
has caused
INTENSE DISSATISFACTION
among the members of the Association. A
manufacturer said to-day that it was al
most certain that some of the firms at least
would withdraw and that the Association
might be disrupted. He said: ut looks
now as though there would be no Associa-
ton Of the manufacturers. That means
that hereafter we would have no orgauiza-
ton to confer each year with the Amalga-
mated Association Committee on the wage
question. 1t would then re-
main for each firm to act iDdi-
vidually each year aud determine for
themselves whether or not they would
sign the scale. Heretofore the alton of
our Conference Committee was understood
to apply TO all of the firms in the Western
Iron Association. I will not cay that l
am complaining about the firms that
sigued. Some of them had orders to be
filled that made it imperative that the
scale be signed. Other firms were
bat partly affected by the iron
workers scale as they had iron and
steel plants combined, while still Others
made specialties which it would not co to
stop turning out. But even if there is a
general signing of the scale next week the
fact remains that the condition of trade is
procf that the demands of the Amalgamated
Association are unjust. This will be
proven by the fact that there are at least
some firms that will remain shut down in
definitely. They can't run and pay the
Amalgamated scale of wages"
was a general uplifting Of cloudy faces this
morning among both business aud work
ing men when It became noised abroad that
An amicable adjustment had been reached
by the Amalgamated Committee and the
management of the National Rolling Mill
concerning the scale question, and that the
entire mill would resume next Monday.
This means the unemployment of over z, 900
men, most of them high wage employees,
who have been out of employment for the
past two weeks. The consultations have
been conducted very quietly and little
could be learned, excepting that Manager
Flagler had said he would pay scale prices,
but would not sign the scale. Mr.. ID c.
Hughes, one of the leading Amalgamated
men here, aud among the prominent men on
the committee of consultation, was seen,
but refused to say whether the company had
signed OF not. He said he had been in
structed by the committee 10 notify the
newspapers that an amicable adjustment
had been made and the works would re-
sumo, but nothing more. The mill con-
tains between eighty and ninety pudding
furnaces, a dozen or more heating fur.
nsces, four or five sets furnishing rolls,
MUCK rolls in each of four puddle mills,
forge department, one large steel furnace,
etc. A firmer tone rules in the business
circles and good feeling exists"
The Amalgamsted officials were notified
this afternoon that Jennings, Beale & Co i,