Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-28
TEN DAYS OF GRACE.
Carnegie's Employees to be Given Un-
til June 10 to Sign the Scale.
WAITING FOR THE CONVENTION.
The Amalgamated Wage Committee Will
Meet Friday Morning.
ARBITRATION FI1ES BUILDERS PAY

Carnegie, Phipps & Co. have extended
the limit Of time for the signing of the
agreement at their Homestead works to
June 10. The chances now are that there
will not be strike, as the Amalgamated
Association convention comes in the mean
time, and will, in all probability, settle the
matter amicably with the firm.
The original intention OF the firm was to
give their employees until IL o'clock noon
June / to sign the new sliding scale. If
any Of them did not do so by that time,
their positions would be declared vacant.
The firm would then look about for nom
unionists to take the vacated positions.
Considering the aggressive stand the
Amalgamated men took against the sliding
scale at their meeting last Sunday week, the
firm thought it best to modify the conditions.
They also desired to act as fairly as possible,
and give the Association chance to act upon
it at their convention. which will not be called
until June H. For this reason the limit of time
was changed to June 10.
PLEASED, BUT NOT STARTLED.
At Homestead the men interested did not
seem surprised at the change. They took it as
something they had been expecting, and a
number of them stated that further concessions
would be made by the company. A repre-
sentative of the firm, in speaking Of the change.
said:
THE fact Of our having made the change is
not an indication of weakness. We only wish
to give our employees as much time as possible
to consider the matter. We recognized the
fact that they could not sign the agreement
..,;el VII fnn fhofT inof fn haiF
union. We think the latter will indorse and
accept the scale. On account of the conven-
tiou not meeting until three or four days after
the limit of time allowed for signatures to the
scale the men would be handicapped. We ex-
pect that the convention will take up this
matter and consider it before doing anything
else. Our original intention was to allow them
an opportunity to discuss the matter, and we
will now hold the agreement in allegiance until
they do so.
mo, we will not make any changes in the
scale. Mr. Carnegie has laid it down, and ex-
poets to see it enforced. The figures, which
have already been published, will have to
stand"
The Wage Committee of the Amalgamated
Association win meet Friday morning at the
headquarters of the Association, in the Mellon
building. A number Of new names will be on
the committee list this year. They will be
published in The DISPATCH Thursday
morning.
TO AMEND THE OLD SCALE.
The committee will take up the sug-
gestions sent in by the different lodges.
and compile them in shape for present
alton to the convention. The latter will be
called in New Turner Hall, one week from to-
day. Considerable conjecture is indulged in
among the people interested as to what the
Wage Committee will do. There is not the
least doubt that the scale to be submitted to
the convention will he the same as the present
one. The rate of SIS so per ton for pudding
iron will be demanded. Whether the manutac-
turers will agree to this or not is matter for
further conjecture.
The Wage Committee will have finished their
labors by Saturday. After the convention goes
through the formality of adopting the scale the
conference committee to present it to the
manufacturers will be appointed. For the first
time in the history of the association the COM
mittee will have no committee of manufact-
urers with whom to confer The latter's as
sociation is disorganized, and none of them
have any desire to call a meeting. 1t has been
suggested that the scale be given to the mill
committees for presentation to their respective
employers. The scale will be given to each in
dividual manufacturer, who can do as he
plcases with it AS there is no association in
existence none of them will be under obliga-
tlons to withhold their signatures from the
scale. There will be no such thing as manu-
facturerS' scale this year.