The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-02-03
THE RTYERsIpE SCALE.
The AmAIEamAtSd Com uiittss WAitIpE-Th'
Works will Start.

The committee appointed at the meet.
ing OF Riverside Lodge, AmalgamAted As
socishon, held on Wednesday, at St.
Georges hall, in the Reilly building, to
call on Manager Hearne, Of the Riverside
Company, and request that the Amalgs.
nations scale be substituted for the
Knights Of Labor scale, as signed by the
Riverside Company Tuesday, for It's steel
plant and plate mill, did not act yeater-
day, as II intended to do, owing to the fact
that Mr.. Hearne was out Of the city, hav-
ing gone to Chicago, 1t isBaid, to look after
some important business matters. The
committee will endeavor to meet him or
some representative Of the company in his
place on Saturday.
Secretary Martin returned to Pittsburgh
yesterday, and will probably not be here
tomorrow as he has an Amalgamation
board meeting TO attend.
The Riverside Company posted notices
yesterday announcing that work will be
resumed at BsnWood Monday morning,
and notifying all It's employees to be on
hand.
A representative OF the company In
talking with an INTELLIGBNoRR reporter
last evening took occasion 10 give some
figures in reference to the scale signed,
and the one the AmRlgamation wishes the
company to sign, for the purpose OF con-
futing those furnished by the Amalgama-
ton officials and published in yesterdays
issue. Their statement was that last
year the scale at the Riverside was
from 81 90 to $3.50 lower In the
aggregate than that in any other like es'
tablishment in this section, and that this
years scale az signed was about So lower
than the scAle OF the AmalgRmRtion. The
Rtverside man said: 1.-THE scale as sign.
ed by our company Is in the aggregate S.
higher per 100 tons than what we paid last
year, and this We agreed to nay in the face
Of falling market, with prices OF least Is
per cent lower than We were getting
at this time last year. Another
thing, the Knights Of Labor scale We have
signed ia as high in every particular, and
in one Or two Items trias higher, than
Is now paid in the Miugo and Bsllaire
steel plants, both Of which are working
under the Amalgsmstion scale, and q
comparison Of the acalea will prove what
l say. And yet in the scales presented
for these three concerns there are five
points on which none OF them agree.
What are these difeIences7 In the
method OF working.
when 1t came to signing the scale for
this year, the Riverside desired to deal
with the majority Of its workers, who
number between 275 and 800. We asked
both orders, the Kuights and AmalHama.
ton, TO pEenent ua with lisks Of their mann .
bers. That presented by the Amslgsms.
ton showed 55 member1, believe; that
handed in by the Knights showed mem.
bsrship Of los. Naturally we chose to deal
with the majority, AMI did &c. As we
understand it, there was q split among
the workmen come months aimee, arising
over an election OF officers, and the Anal
gamstion Lodge was founded 40 a result.
These latter are now plquei that the
knights Of Labor scale Is signed. The
Riverside Company thinks 1t has done the
proper thing, and expects to start up in
full Monday morning"