Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-04
STILL SIGNING.
More Firms Attach Their Signatures to the
Iron Workers. Scale-The Steel Scale IL
Causing the Hitch.

More Firms Attach Their Signatures to the
Iron Workers. scale-The Steel Scale IL
Causing the Hitch.
Over 80 iron firms have signed the Amalga-
mated Association scale, and as predicted in
this paper the other day, there will be no
strike or serious trouble in the iron industry
during the year ending June 30, 1890. Three
large firms signed yesterday. Long Co., of
this city, the Muncie Iron Works, of Muncie,
Ind, and the Akron Iron and Bolt Works, OF
Akron, o. Secretary Martin, of the Amalga-
mated Association, and several members Of the
organization were very jubilant yesterday. and
when asked what the indications were, said:
You can say there will be no strike or trouble
that will amount to anything, except in the
steel departments, some OF the manu-
facturers do not want to sign the iron
scale until they hear of the result at the Home
stead works of Carnegie, Phipps Co. When
asked yesterday whether firm could not sign
the iron scale and resume operations without
clined to talk on the subject One of the
largest iron firms in the city, Jones & Laugh
Inns, employing about 45O0 men, seem to be
willing to sign the iron scale. but object to the
men are employed A conference was held
yesterday by the mill committee, headed by
President Weihe and the members of the firm.
The conference was secret one, and none OF
the men present would give any Information of
the conference. If the steel scale at the Home
stead mill is satisfactorily arranged there will
not likely De any trouble IN tne iron anu steel
industries this year. The Carnegie sliding
scale seems to be the main hitch in the settle
ment of the wage question.
Mr.. A. M. Byers one of the leading manu-
facturers OF the city, was asked last night
whether he would sign the scale or not, and he
said: 1--WE will not sign it in its present state.
There must be some notifications or our mill
will remain idle. The scale, as prepared, may
suit some manufacturers. but it does not suit
us. 1t is not the same as last year. Some
things have been added that seriously affect us
and we cannot pay it. They must wipe out
some of these Objectionable clauses or we will
not run our works. We have not asked for a
conference and do not think we will until they
present more satisfactory scale"
Chairman Abbott. of Carnegie. Phipps &
Co., said there was nothing new in the situa-
ton and that no signatures had yet been re-
ceived to their scale. The report that fence
there is an indication of a long strike, is mis-
and it has been there for over year.
the Labor Tribune, says:
There have enough firms signed the new
scale Of the Amalgamated Association to settle
names of firms among the lists designers will sub
stantiate this conclusion. 1t was quietly noised
around that inasmuch as the manufactures had
not granted a conference that the Amalgamated
Association would invite a struggle by demanding
exorbitant advances. How far from being cor
rect these prophets were. the scale as signed
shows: 1t is source of great pleasure to all con-
cerned to know that. as far as the wages question
is concerned. the iron mills can run uninterrupt-
edly for another year.