Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-21
AND IT MAY BE ADOPTED.
No Fight in the Iron Industry is
Anticipated This Year.
A LIST OF CHANGES MADE.
Trouble is Expected at Carnegie's Home
stead Steel Works.
A LETTER FROM CHAIRMAN ABBOTT

There will be no strike or trouble of any kind
in the iron industry this year, but reduction
in the steel mills is expected. The scale of
wages in force during lSSS-S9 has been revised,
and there are but few changes; in fact the
alterations made in most cases are favored by
the manufacturers. A copy of the new scale
as prepared by the Amalgamated Association
was mailed TO the manufacturers, and all were
pleased, and, in fact, surprised, when they
received it. None of them have any objections
to it, as it wipes out many Objectionable feat
ures, and although some new clauses are in
serted they are not of serious character.
The following points are all that are men,
toned in the memorandum of agreement, al
though the scale of prices is the same as last
year:
On all mills working iron or steel weighing one
hundred and sixty (l60) pounds, or over, extra
help shall be furnished to the heater, the same to
be paid by the company.
SEVERAL CLAUSES ELIMINATED.
1t will be seen that several clauses in the
agreement have been eliminated. The boiling
scale is the same as at present, but the follow
ing clause has been added: "Busheling on cin-
der bottom to be one-half the price paid for
boiling"
The muck and puddle mill scale is the same
The scrapping and busheling scale is the
same, hut some changes are made in the ex-
tras. The following have been inserted. Bush
cling on sand bottom to be so cents per ton
busheling scrap and wrought iron turnlngs
mixed on sand bottom to be thirty (3O) cents
per ton above the current price for piles on
boards.
One clause in the old agreement has been
stricken out-the one making busheling scrap
and swarth mixed on sand bottom to be one
half the straight price paid for boiling.
No changes are made in the scale for knob
bling.
The scale in the bar and nail plate mills is
the same, and but two changes are made in the
extras-the first and the last-which are ap-
pended:
All sizes below one and one-haIr by one-half
1hxlS) inch flats. one ~ inch round and seven
eighths sa) squares when worked on bar mill TO
when worked by hand on bar mill shall be paid
for at guide mill prices.
Q1&x11i inch fats, one inch rounds, and seven
eighths % inch squares, when worked on a
prices, One-inch rounds when worked by hand
on a Finch mill shall be paid for at guide mill
prices
The scale for the guide, 10 inch, hoop and
cotton tie mills, nut iron. channel iron, "T''
iron, angles, clip or wagon strap. hame iron.
ten inch MILL hoop and cotton tie mills remain
the same, but the following two new clauses
are added to the latter:
REDUCTION FAvoRs EMPLOYERS.
All half ovals below regular gauge one-fourth( "
the thickness of its width shall be paid for as fol-
lows: S, sll; y, $40 so; u. S so; y, s. 80 and r.
S. the same to advance and decline as per regular
Thirty CsoD cents per ton extra for cut hoops. all
sizes.
These clauses mean a net reduction of 81 SO
in favor of the firm Two new clauses are
added in nut iron VIZ. 27-64 which is classed
sSx1s and Lilo. and the same price is paid there
for viz. Sl2 so per ton. Undec this head an
entire g - size is added, 2764 by 9-64 at $40 per
ton.
The price for rolling plate and tank iron has
been reduced from so to Y cents per ton on the
base and the same relative position maintains
through the entire scale. and the following
extras are added:
First-For Nos 10 and IL gauges 20 cents per ton
Second For Nos Z and 13 gauges 30 cents per
Ihird--For Nos. il and Is gauges, 40 cents per
ton above common prices.
Fourth-For Nos. 16 and IL gauges, 50 cents per
ton above common prices.
Fifth-All re-rolled iron shall be double COM
mon prices.
sixth-Tops and bottoms to be 10 cents per ton
The above extras were eliminated last year,
much to the detriment of the workmen in some
mills, hence the reinsertion this year.
Extras Nos. 4, s. 6 and z in the last years
scale are included in the new scale.
The scale for rolling pipe iron on sheet and
jobbing mill is exactly the same as last year;
also the sheet mill scale, with the exception
that the clause demanding l0per cent for strong
iron is eliminated, leaving the 10 per cent apply
to steel only, and the weights for Birmingham
wire gauge including all extras, with the fol-
lowing one added:
Sheet mills working three t3) turns that make
tin and black plate shall be permitted to work
three (S turns Of eight (s) hours each, of seven "a
heats each turn.
The sheet mill hands scale is the same, but
the two following extras are added:
Sheet mills working iron or steel one hundred
and twenty Cl20) inches long and over, the day
hands shall be paid an average days work for the
same.
Mills working narrow widths and short lengths,
below and including 2s inches wide and 81 inches
long, shall be allowed to make eight () heats for
turn work, and for each turn of eight (5) heats
the day hands shall be paid in proportion. This
clause shall only apply TO mills that make a uni
formly large amount Of narrow width and short
length sheets, such as the small trains of rolls in
Leechburg, Apollo, Demmler Canonsburg and
Mansfield, Pa. I; Irondale, o., and St. Louis, Mo.
While the scale for roughing and catching
for sheet and joobing mills does not apply to
the manufacturers, the roughers and catchers
being paid by the roller, the wages of the for
mer have been advanced from 81 Is per day,
and will hereafter be governed as follows:
tits understood that roughers and catehers on
sheet and jobbing mills shall, eaeh, be paid
follows, based on a two (2) cent Western Iron
Associations Card, with two (2) per cent ad-
ditional for each one-tenth (ll0) advance of said
card, and two 2) per cent decline for each deduc-
not go below two ~ cent card.
On large sheet and jobbing mills the wages for
roughng and catching shall be 81 so per turn,
each. of seven "a heats and when eight (S) heats
paid 50 per turn. But the price for roughing and
catching small sheet mills shall be the regular
& 25, each, per day OF seven (7) heats.
COMMON SIZES REMAIN THE SAME.
The classification on common sizes remains
the same, but the following new rule will apply
to mills making narrow widths and short-length
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