Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-08

bumpers and tipplemen....... so
Chargers with horses or mules
| Win larrleS) US3I per oven.
| Other chargers to be paid according to the
work they perform and the responsibility of
their position.
Coke drawers. ........S 63 per 100 bu. charged.
LIeveiing. ........-...... 0915 per oven;
Yard laborers. ........ i IS per day of 10 hours.
Car forkers, all cars
less than 10000 lbs.
capacity. W per car.
Car forkers, all cars
4OOOO lbs. capacity
anu oNer... L Uper car
Foremen, engineers, bumpers. machinists and
mechanics of all kinds shall be paid according
10 work they perform, ability required and re-
sponslbility of their positions. Heading price
to be paid for turning rooms in a distance Of
thirty (3O) feet from center of heading. Head
ing price 10 be paid for making cut-throughs
seventy-hve (75) feet apart, and all other cut
throughs ordered made by pit boss. and for no
others.
A SLIDING SCALE.
2 1t is agreed that the above rates Of
wages and prices for contract work shall be the
minimum rates and prices paid by the said II.
c. Frick Coke Company at all the works owned
or operated by them in the Connellsville coke
region during the term of this agreement and
for each and every advance of ten (l0) cents
per ton over and above 81 35 per ton in the price
of furnace coke +. o. b. cars at ovens, 2N cents
per 100 bushels shall be added to the above
prices for mining and loading coal. and one and
one-half S1H) cents per loo bushels of coal
charged shall be added to the above price of
drawing coke, and two (2) per cent to be added
to all other labor given in the above list. and
two (2) per cent to be added to wages of all
other classes or kinds OF labor at each plant not
given in the above list.
Provided that all other coke operators in the
Connellsville region will sign. on or before the
lst Of April next, the same scale or its eQuiva-
lent for the regulation of the wages of their
md in
scale or its equivalent is not signed and paid BY
the other operators in the Connellsyilie coke
regions generally, on or before the lst of April
it is distinctly understood and agreed by the
parties hereto that the rates of wages herein
and hereby fixed are to be stricken out aban-
doned, and no longer to be paid by said II. c.
Fr1ck Coke Company, and the average wages
paid in the region at works outside of Frick
Coke Company on April ], 1889 are to be
adopted and substituted instead and to be paid
by said Frick Coke Company, and the scale in
this agreement for regulating advances and re-
ductions in wages of said Frick Coke Company
shall be null and void, and wages to be paid by
this agreement, on or after April /, 1882 shall
be advanced and reduced as the wages paid gen.
orally by the other operators in the region are
advanced and reduced; that is to say, on and
after the lst of April next during the term of
this agreement, it is distinctly understood and
agreed that the said Frick Coke Company are
not to pay any higher wages than the average
wages paid by other operators in this region
generally.
TIMELY WARNING GUARANTEED.
8. 1t is also agreed that the management are
to have the right to employ any person or per-
sons they desire to employ and no others.
4 A suspension of work by the employees for
any cause whatever shall not be allowed at any
plant owned or operated by the said Frick Coke
Company unless six days written notice stat
ing the difficulty or grievance, and asking for
an adjustment of same, signed by the local off,
GERS at the plant where the trouble exisrs and
by the district officers OF National Progressive
Union, shall have been previously given to the
general superintendent of said company at his
Office in Scottdale, and the said Frick Coke
Company shall not suspend operations or close
down any plant owned or operated by them in
the Connellsville coke region unless six days
written notice, statirg cause of suspension,
shall have been previously given by said COM |
pany to district officers of National Progressive
Union and to the employees of said plant by |
posting written notices at works. |
3. In case suspension of work should occur |
for any cause at any or all the coke works |
owned or operated by the said coke company |
in the Connellsville coke region, 1t is hereby /
agreed that all the coke shall be drawn out Of |
8 Hauiers. trackmen and md ali others eUnlovsd
inside shall furnish their own oil and attend to
their own lamps. the 81. c. Frick Coke Com
pany to furnish safety lamps only.
q. Payments to be made semimonthly
Inns agreement to take effect February L |
1859, and to continue in effect and binding on |
SAID 81. Z. Friek Coke Company and all their
employees until December 81, 1889.
A SURPRISED OFFICIAL.
The other day William Mullen, who was
secretary of the NJ. and L. A. A. and the
n. P. o., remarked to the correspondent of
a Pittsburg paper:
Regarding the present strike, am somewhat
surprised to see the Frick employees taking the
initiative and the others at work The Frick
company paid higher wages than apy ether |
coke os operator for two years previous 10 April
!, 1883, and then only reduced their fates to the
average of wages paid at the otheYworks after
t was found tnat the wages at the other works
could not be brought up - The Frick standard
tutnermore, the present wages paid by the
frick company apd other conditions such as
hours of labor, and provision that six days'
notice be given by either side before suspend.
ng work, and uhe component parts of a scale
signed by therepreseDtatives of each one of |
he Frick works in the region. Had the strike |
been brought about at the other coke works in
De needed at the Frick works, as that Company
las all along declared its willingness to pay any
wages or sign any scale agreed to by the other
coke operators.
1t will be observed from all this that the
Frick men, having been unable to bring
he remainder of the district up to their
evel of wages, came down to the lower
evel of the other workmen. For two years
he Frick company had paid material ad-
'ance on the wages paid by other operators.
This is greatly to the credit of the company.
md should have secured them the services
# intelligent workmen, who then, as now,
hould appreciate the consideration which.
or two years,
HELD UP WAGES
n the vain hope that the remainder of the
Torkmen of the district would level mn to
he top rate. Yet the public sees these men
reaking faith-dlsregarding an agreement
etween themselves and the Frick com
any. How must they be regarded by that
ublic? Why, simply as men who are so
nreliable that it is impossible for an en-
loyer to have business relations with them,
Or it cannot be foreseen what agreement
hey will or will not keep. Did not the
istrict have a sufficiently severe lesson in
he loss of hundreds of thousands in wages
y violation of the umpire's award, that
be men should deliberately refuse to OBJ
erve the agreement of February? And |
ow one of "the leaders" is quoted BY the /
ress as saying that the agreement was i
iolated honorably, because all the re- {
ion had not agreed to it. That is a silly ,
lea, for every man who has worked under !
ne agreement is as much bound by it as /
lough he had signed and sealed it. As for
he others, they are entitled to no considera- 2
on from the Frick men, for the very good
,ason that but for them the higher rate that
lie Frick company paid for two years would
ave yet been the rate. Furnace coke had 2
one up as high as 81 30 during those two I
Ears, yet nothing was done by the under
aid remainder" In February it was
25; in April, 81 Is, and not well main
ined; then 81 O5, and finally it looked as t
ough the 90-cent days were coming back. t
atterly it has been 81, with pig metal a
ocks increased some hundreds of thous- a
ids of tons over what they were at the close