Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-16
What the Week has Brought Forth
in the Iron, Steel, Coal, Coke
and Glass Industries.
A BRIGHT OUTLOOK FOR THEFALL.
Prices in the Metal Market Maintained,
While Sellers Don't Wish to
Contract Ahead.
PROMISING WINDOW GLASS TRADE.
strIkss Still Disturb the Conduct Of Business and
Seem to centinua

No better summary of the present condi-
tion of the iron trade can be given than in
the words Of leading broker who has just
returned from tour among the Eastern and
Southern mills.
'I everywhere found" he said, "the de-
mand active, and the prospects Of the fall
trade good. While the output has been re-
stricted by the hot weather, the market has
maintained an elasticity due to healthy
activity in the various branches. I
did not anywhere find undue excite
ment, or disposition to expect
big things of the future. There is no dispo-
sition to close contracts for delivery ahead,
but sellers are more apt to dispose of their
goods at the fair margins the markets now
offer than to hold them in expectation of a
boom. The market has that healthy tone
which results from an active trade and good
prices, trife of indifference among pro-
ducers and a corresponding easiness among
consumers. Bessemer pig is readily bought
where offered at SIS 80, while billets are a
point or two higher than the difference in
cost and fair profit would warrant, selling
at $31. Muck bar is in good demand at S27,
with no disposition on the part of mill
owners to contract ahead. The pipe trade
is brisk with all the mills busy, and prices
unchanged. In general the outlook for a
brisk fall trade is good, with q tendency to
q stifening in prices without any indica-
tion of unwholesome excitement"
MEETING WITH SUCCESS.
The Amalgamated Association has been
generally successful in inducing manu-
facturers to adopt its scale as the basis for
wages. In the East, where this year the
scale has been presented to mill owners for
the first time, not more than five or six firms
are holding out against its terms. The
association has increased the number of its
mills in the East by more than half as many
again as it had last year. In this district
the only mills which have not signed the
scale are the Carbon Iron Works and the
ZanesTille mill. At the former mill
the firm are still running about half dozen
graphite furnaces with the aid Of colored
3nen. Repairs are In progress, and 1t has
been stated that when the company is ready
10 resume it will find men to fill the places
3f those who went out under the rules of the
Association. There is an expectation, how
ever, that the firm will compromise and
ultimately resume with its old hands.
Those who come into direct communication
with the men have usually say in such
matters. Other than this difference there
docs not seem to be any cloud on the horizon
Of the Associations prospects.
BRISK COKE TRADE.
In the coke trade op erators report brisk
demand. The business for the week was
not so extensive as during the previous
week, owing principally to firms reducing
orders to prevent oVerstocking. Prices re-
main unchanged. The relations between
employers and workers remain undisturbed.
The condition of the window glass trade
continues unchanged. As yet no time has
been set for resumption of work. The man
ufacturers will meet in Chicago on next
Tuesday and decide when the start shall
take place. The opinion of the meeting of
the scale committee on the 9th inst. was in
favor of the resumption being deferred until
the 1st of October. The stocks in the hands
Of manufacturers are much reduced, and the
outlook for the future is agreed to be very
good. The object of retarding the fire is, Of
course, to insure steady demand and re-
have the say in the matter, they will be
guided by their views rather than by the
wishes OF the workers, who are anxious to
see an early blast. The general impression
seems to be that no blast will be made be-
fore October l, with chance that work may
be resumed two weeks earlier.
The representatives OF the flint glass
houses, who have been holding court in the
Monongahela for six weeks past brought
their sojourn to an end on Thursday. The
agents reported business as below the ave-
rage, with chimneys in most demand. Ia
bleware, as an agent remarked, twas not in
i" but novelties sold we'll at fair prices.
INTEND TO START LATE.
The majority of the tableware factories
are not likely to resume operations before
the first of September, an impression pre-
vailing that late start will assist in still
further reducing stocks, and make the
years trade more profitable. Committees
Of the Manufacturers Association and
Workers Union were in session during the
week, but without getting through the
whole of the list 1t is thought that the
ultimate settlement will result in q more
general equalization of prices, as much as
between the product Of certain factories as
IN specific articles of manufacture.
Business in the prescription and green
bottle branches promises to be improved
over last seasons trade. The assumption
would follow on the advance of 10 per cent
obtained by the flint workers last week and
it is generally held that the trade in flint
bottles has a good outlook. The trade in
beer and mineral bottles is increasing, and
gradually beating the green bottles out Of
the market
Among the firms which have started up
are Thomas Evans & Co., The King Glass
Company, Jones, Cavitt & Co., Bryce
Bros, and the Peerless Lead Glass Com
pany.
For the first time in its history the West
.nghouse Company has had to deal with a
thoroughly organized strike, involving two
branches Of its works and about ], 600 men.
The position Of the men is in effect for an
advance of 10 per cent in waees-some Of
shem in time, and others-those working by
the piece, in wages. The company init
mated its willingness to grant a reduction
IN the hours, with the stipulation that pro
rata wages should follow. This was re-
fused. Yesterday was general pay day,
and each man was given the option of re-
turning TO work on Monday or receiving his
discharge. The company has declared that
it will maintain its position, and after Mon
day fill the places vacated from outside
sources.
PRACTICALLY A VICTORY.
bemachinists have practically won their
strike for a 9-hour day for 10 hours pay,
only three or Iour firms having refused the
concession.
The Painters Unions of the TWO cities are
engaged in what seems to be war OF exter-
mination against each other, the ukase hav-