Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-07
BIDDING FOR JOBS.
The MillVale Mill May be Started
With Nom Union Men To-Morrow.
OLD EMPLOYEES ARE CROWDED OUT.
The RougherS and Catchers Correct
Mr.. divers Statements.
ONLY A MORE EQUAL DIVISION WANTED

The Millvale Iron Works, formerly
operated by Graf, Bennett & Co., will be
started tomorrow morning under very
peculiar circum stances. Just at present II
is impossible to state whether the firm will
sign the scale, but it is already we'll
known fact that the object of the company
that will operate the works is to do so on
the cheapest plan possible. The steps that
have already been taken are damaging to
organized labor. The company has engaged
nearly all the day workmen, or those who
do not come under the rule or scale of the
Amalgamated Association.
The work that has SO far been let has been
given to the lowest bidder, something that
has never been known or heard of around
Pittsburg before. The men who called at
the Office for work were first and sim
ply asked what they wanted for their SER
vices. In this way the company will likely
save from 80 cents to 50 on each skilled
workman per day.
The firm has notified their managers not
to hire any of the old men, giving as rea-
son that they had broken up the late owners
of the plant.
APPLIED, BUT GOT LEFT.
Nearly all those men who formerly worked
in the mill, who are members of the Anal
gamated Association. and who live in Mill
vale, have asked for work, and not a single
one was given any satisfaction.
In the past week number of colored men
who were discharged from the Black Dia-
mond Steel Works during the Knights of
Labor strike nearly two years ago, have
moved their families into the company
houses at Millvale. From this the men in
fer that the firm intend to operate the mill
on the non-union principle:
If none of the old hands are taken back
it will not give them any power to act
through their committee on the scale ques-
ton, and those in authority to know
have not heard of any move on the part of
the head officials of the Amalgamated Asso-
citation having been made.
The mill will be run on small scale for
one week at least; portion of the pudding
department only will be on single turn, and
the large train of plate rolls is to be started
later on, making heavy pipe iron. No ex-
ira precaution has been made by the firm
for any future trouble by any of the old
workmen.
NO INTERFERENCE.
A large number of them who are working
in the Vesuvius mill, of Moorhead Bros. &
Co., at Sharpsburg, stated to representa-
tive OF The DISPATCH last evening, that
none of the men who formerly worked in the
mill will interfere, as nearly all of them are
working in other mills, and large number
have moved their families away from the
town.
The old firm had commenced building
new pudding department of 16 dOuble-fur-
naces, which was nearly finished when the
mill was closed in February of last year.
They can be made ready to be started in
about month. If the new company starts
every department of the mill on double
turn, it will give work to about 800 men,
who, if paid at the scale, will draw S23, 900
every two weeks.
It was also reported last night that a
number of puddlers who had formerly been
employed at the Clinton Mill had been en-
gagged to 60 to work tomorrow.