Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-21


Terday, the new wage scale for the year was
submitted in pamphlet form and adopted.
As has been stated time and again, the base
has been fixed at S. so per ton for pudding
on 2-cent card. A number of changes
have been made In the several departments.
They will be found below, as taken from
the official scale. The changes have been
noted from time 10 time, but most of them
heretofore have been guess work.
\ The first change noted is in the pudding
department. IL the list of "e1tras" are the
following:
SOME OF THE EXTRAS.
One-The charge for boiling furnaces shall be
Rs follows; Single furnaces, five hundred (500)
pounds per heat; double furnaces. one thousand
Il OOO) pounds per heat; double double furnaces,
two thousand (2OO0) pounds per heat, and the
two weeks work shall be averaged.
Two-In order to insure uniformity of iron
in boiling furnaces and avoid the increasing
custom of running in strong for common iron,
thus inc reasing the hours and work OF the
boiler the limit of time for each heat shall be
as follows: For single furnace hour and As
minutes; for double furnace, ! hour and so
minutes and for q double double furnace, 2
hours.
Three-Where it is shown that five or more
boiling furnaces in mill take more time than
specified in clause two to make heat 90 cents
per ton extra shall be paid for all such iron
worked.
Four-one dollar Sl) per ton extra for de-
phosphorized iron.
Ffve-Where Bessemer pig iron is worked
alone, one dollar tSl) per ton extra shall be
paid.
Six-one dollar per ton extra for all scrap pig
metal twenty-five (25) pounds and under.
sOve pae m4ed PR @ cents per ton
extra shall be paid. Or where pot metal or
stove plate is worked alone or mixed, fifty (5O)
cents per ton extra shall be charged.
AMONG THE ADDITIONS.
In muck and puddle mills the following
has been added:
Fourth no case shall any deduction of weight
be taken from the roller on account of over
weight by the boilers. He shall be paid full
weight for all iron that passes through the
rolls.
In the scrappiug and busheling mills ex-
ira No. has been amended to read: "Bush-
cling scrap and wrought iron turnings mixed
on sand bottom shall be one-half the current
price, per ton, paid for boiling"
The next change is noticed in the bar and
nail plate mills, where the list has been con-
siderably revised. The corrections are as
follows:
One-AI sizes below one and one-half by
one-half Q1&x19 inch fats, and all shapes
weighing three and one-haf k31Sl pounds and
under, per hneal foot, when worked on a bar
or twelve-inch mill, to be paid for at guide
mill prices.
Two-One inch rounds. seven eighths %
squares, and all sizes below, when worked on a
bar or twelve-Inch mill, shall be paid for at
guide mill prices.
Seven-On all bar mills working bar or
skelp iron one mans help shall be furnished by
the firm on piles of one hundred and fifty (l5O)
pounds, and additional man for two hum
dred and fifty 25O) pounds, to shove under at
the rolls, on all passes.
Eight-Night-uurn rollers on bar, twelve
inch and skelp mills shall be paid at the rate of
nifty (5O) per cent of what the mills turns out
on bis turn, he 10 pay no one, except he en-
ploys MAJ to do his own work, in which case
the night-turn roller must pay such help.
Nne-Roughing down on bar and twelve
Inch mills shall be not less than thirty (3U) per
cent of the rollers wages.
Ten-Roughiug up on bar and twelve-inch
mills shall not be less than forty-two aud one
half t4235) per cent of the price paid for catch
ing on such mills.
GOT IN THEIR WORK.
Another big change has been made in the
guide, ten inch, hoop and cotton tie mills,
where the roughers and catchers got in their
word. The agreement reads:
1t is agreed that the base price at two q,
centN estern Iron Associations card shall be the
straight one dollar and forty cents Isl 45)per
ton Tor rolling, seTenty-two and one-half (721S)
cents for heating tnirty-six and one-fourth
$50 cents for roughing and thirty-six and
one-fourth $50 cents per ton for catching
Iron or steel on guide, ten-inch, hoop or cotton
tie mills, with two ~ per cent additional for
each one-tenth (l-lO) advance on said card from
two t2) to two and fve-tenths e 5-l0) cent card,
and tor each one-tenth Il 10y advance or decline
above the two and fVe-Uenths q 5l0) cent card
three ~ per cent shall be added or deducted
as the case may be. The roller night-turn
roller, heaters, roughers and catcners shall,
each, be paid by the company.
Ia the Dresent scale the haSe nrice for
rolling is 81 80. To show how the wages are
10 be divided the following is cited. 1t is
the proposed rate for working 3-16 sizes.
Roller, "a rs; heater, 81 3715: rougher,
81 1S3z; catcher, 81 1S3<.
HOW THEY'LL BE PAID.
working nut iron GIG by 4 the roller
be paid 81 95; heater, 81 Az; rougher,
&C; catcher, 1870. Channel iron, pinch
i'd upward, roller, 81 45; heater, 721kc;
.ougher, 36Lc, catcher, 361<c. 7 iron, ~
inch and upward, roller, 81 60; heater, soc;
rougher, 40c; catcher, 40c. Angles, 1Z-inch
and upward, roller, 81 As; heater, 721kc;
rougher, 36Hc; catcher, 36Zc. Clip or
wagon strap, 5s-inch, roller. 81 60; heater,
SOC; rougher, 40c; catcher, 40c. Hame iron,
Is by No. 10 and lighter, roller, 81 70;
heater, 81 391I; rougher, 81 1824; catcher,
81 1S5Z. Ten-inch mill Il and GIG rounds and
squares, roller, 81 go; heater. 80; rougher,
40; catcher, 40. Hoop and cotton tie mills,
roller, 81 45; heater, 72z; rougher, 361S;
catcher, 36Z. These figures are Tor the first
sizes, and other sizes are arranged for in the
same proportion. In the notes the following
change has been made:
OF GREAT SIGNIFICANCE.
First-lt is understood that the price for
rolling cotton ties out of muck billets shall be
twenty-five (25) cents per ton less for rolling.
twelve and one-half (l21SD cents per ton less for
heating. six and one-fourth go cents per ton
less for roughing, and six and one-fourth 90
cents per ton less for catching than the above
rates; but when using muck blllets during
the three summer months-June, July and
August-tne company shall pay heaters helper
at the cotton tie furnace, and an extra rougher
and catcher at the cotton tie rolls; that is
man at the rolls who shall assist both rougher
and catcher.
Third-An sizes made from a regular two (2)
inch and lighter reworked billet made from all
muck iron and cut to regular weight, twenty
five (25) cents per ton less for rolling twelve
and one-half (1215) cents per ton less for heat
ing six and One-IOurth (61<l cents per ton less
for rougning. and SIX and one-fourth (6Z) cents
per ton less for catching, be paid, but Tor work
ing steel billets full prices shall be paid.
9. Where a mill averages over $50 per day the
roller shall pay one-half 09l the wages for a
third rougher during the months of June, July
and August; said extra man to help both
rougher and catcher
l0 The night-turn roller shall receive two
ffths (2-5) Of the rollers wages on said night
turn.
IN THE SHEET MILLS.
In the sheet mill the following change has
been made in the notes:
G For pickle finish, or picked in the rough,
either iron or steel worked on sheet
%t,r and uarr rant