Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-01
THE SCALE is SIGNED.
IRON MANUFACTURERS coNcEDE THE
DEMANDS OF THE MEN.

Subjected TO Many Minor Chnnges-But the
Point-Kind Words for Secretary Martin
from the Conference Committee.
Yesterdays conference between the iron
manufacturers and the Amalgamated Asso-
citation Committee settled all controversy,
so far as the scale is concerned, for
the next year. The Conference
Committee met in the morning and
were in session until 2:30 o'clock in
the afternoon, when the manufacturers
ageed to the terms of the scale, thereby re-
moving the necessity for shutdown this
season. The point relating to scale for the
roughers and catchers, to which the manu-
facturers objected so strenuously, was settled
amicably. The firms agree to pay the men
their wages from the office.
THE CHANGES MADE.
In considering the scale the following was
added as a third section of the article of agree
ment: "An differences that may arise between
workmen and mill owners shall be settled under
the rules of the A. A. of l. & s. w., as ex-
planned in article No. 10, of 1SS99O"
In the boiling schedule change was made to
allow Siemen's furnaces ], 400 pounds to a heat.
and the extent of time for the heat. hour and
IS minutes, to be reckoned from the time the
door is dropped after charging until the heat is
ready to draw.
The following is substituted for clause of
the boiling schedule:
When the majority of the furnaces in any
mill require more than the time specified in
clause to make their heats. due notice. as de.
scribed in clause 2, shall be given in accordance
with article 10 of A. A. of L & s. w. constitu-
ton of lsS9-90; and if after three days the mix
ture is not changed, then so cents per ton extra
shall be paid for all hard iron thereafter made
until the stock is changed.
The words when worked alone" are added
to the sixth clause of the boiling schedule. and
the fourteenth clause is increased by when it
is no fault of the boiler"
In the fourth line of the first clause of the
muck or puddle mill schedule "base price,, ia
is substituted straight price"
The third clause Of the scrapping and bushel-
ing schedule Is changed to read: Busheling
scrap and wrought iron turnings mixed on
sand bottom to be 30 cents per ton above the
current price for piles on boards"
The following is added to clause No. in the
bar and nail plate schedules: This shall not
apply to mills giving extra help, provided no
further help shall be furnished on piles or
Clauses s. and 10 are stricken out. Clauses
and 2, of last years scale, is substituted for
those in the new scale.
WHERE THE FIGHT WAS.
In the second line of guide, ten-inch, hoop
and cotton tie mills schedule, the word might
turn-roller'' is stricken out. 1t is understood,
however, that this arrangement shall in no way
detract from the authority of the roller in con-
trolling all hands in the mill, including hiring
and discharging as heretofore: the roller shall
be held responsible for the work done.
In the third note, under hoop and cotton tie
mills, the phrase at the end about steel billets
is stricken out After the word iron, in the
second line OF the same clause, the following
is Inserted 'All steel hoops made from ~
inch and lighter reworked steel billet, all steel
product from and N inch and lighter steel
billet"
changed to $50 90 per day and rolling for
third rougher during June, July and August on
demand of roller, rougher and catcher, the
same 10 be paid one-half by roller and one-half
by rougher and catcher.
Gross weight Is changed to finished weight
in the second note under the structural mill
schedule. Several nrms signed the scale yes