Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-07-15
THE BIG LOCKOUT.
The MANUFACTURERS ALL At SEA.
Nay End in the Disruption Of the Western
Iron Association.
MORE SCALE SIGNBRS YESTERDAY.
Manufacturers Much Dissatisfied - What
Some Of Them Say.


iron workers has assumed an entirely differ
sat aspect to-day.
According to the statements Of q repre-
sentative manufacturer there may be de-
velopmsnts 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 msnufsetur-
srs to confer with the Amsleama.ei Asso-
eiation 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 insugurated, and,
d they say, have done just as they stated
would be their policy previous TO the lock-
out 1t is said these firms are still op-
posed to signing the scale on account of
the depressed condition Of the iron market,
but that the situation hss now resolved
itself into 8 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 ID comes from q most reliable sourcs
that meeting is contemplated. Mr.. A. F.
Heating, when seen this morning. stated
that it was true that q meeting would
likely Re 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 10
which they had been from the very begin
ming of the lockout.
1t also comes from high authority that
Mr. A. F.
KEArING WILL TENDER HIS RESIGNATION
as President of the Western Iron Associa-
ton. 1t is said that he will refuse to con-
tinue in a position where there Is so much
work with the result that il was all to no
purpose. At the meeting next week it is
expected that il will be left with each firm
TO pursue its 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 ssid to-day that il was al
most certain that some of the firms at least
would withdraw and that the Association
might he disrupted. He said: 1T looks
now as though there would be no Associs-
tion Of the manufacturers. That means
that hereafter we would have no orgaoizs-
ton to confer each year with the Amslga-
-....l A.,oo;aK;o,, rop,pnittaa m fha vaua
question. It would then re-
main for each firm to act iDdi-
vidually each year and determine for
themselves whether or not they would
sign the scale. Heretofore the alton Of
our Conference Committee was understood
70 apply to all of the firms in the Western
Iron Association. I will not cay that l
am complaining about the tirms that
signed. Some of them had orders to be
filled that made it imperative that the
scale be signed. Other firms were
bot partly affected by the iron
workers scale as they had iron and
steel plants combined, while still others
made speeialties which it would not CO to
STOP turning out. But even il there is a
general siguing of the scale next week the
fact remains that the condition OF trade Is
proof that the demands OF the Amalgsmated
Association are unjust. Tnis 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"
A McKeesport dispatch says: There
was a general uplifting Of cloudy faces this
morning among both business and work
ing men when il became no:sed abroad that
an amicsble adjustment h!d been reached
hy the Amalgsmated Committee and the
management of the National Rolling Null
concerning the scale question, and that the
entire mill would resume next Monday
This means the ere-employmento Of over :, ,OO0
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
Flsgler had said he would pay scale prices,
but would not sign the scale. Mr.. ID. Q.
Hughes. one of the leading Amslgamsted
men here, and among the prominent men on
the committee Of consultation, was seen,
but refused to say whether the company had
signed or not He said he had been in
structed by the committee to notify the
newspapers that an smicable adjustment
had been made and the works would re-
sume, but nothing more. The mill con-
tains between eighty and ninety pudding
furnaces, q dozen or more heating fur
naces, 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 Amalgamated officials were notified
this afternoon that Jennings, Beale Il Co,
of Lynchburg, Pa, had signed the scale.