Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-06-02
A. A. OF |. & S. ".
TIE ANNUAL CONVENTION WILL OPEN To-
DAT.
Wheeling Delegates in Attsndancs-An Attempt to
Be Made to Advance NaileTs' Wages
The Rate for Pudding

Yesterday Messrs. Harry Otto,
Michael Tighe, William Williams, and
John r. Holman, the delegates from
the local lodges to the National Assocl-
alton of Iron and Steel Workers, which
is to meet in Pittsburg this morning,
left for that city, and will hereafter be
in daily attendance upon the sessions OF
that body until the work mapped out
for it shall have been completed. The
Convention which opens to-day will be
the largest in the history of the organ
i2ation, there being no fewer than 2S5
delegates, or Thirty more than last year.
This increase in the membership is at
tributed to the rapid growth of the or
ganization in the South, where about
1000 members have been added during
the past tweVe months, as Il result OF
the labors of organizers in that section
of the country.
The Wage Committee met early yes
terday morning, and were in session all
dav, and far into the night, engaged in
the preparation of the report, which it
is desired shall be presented to the Con-
Vention tomorrow. Among the matters
which this committee will have before
it will be petition OF the naierS, ask
ing that their scale be advanced over
what it hes been during the past two or
three years. \ Wheeling delegate to
the Convention is quoted by last even
ing'S PittSburg CMOa,cle-Telegrdph as
saying:
THE n9il cutters expect this year
that the Amalgamated Association will
stand by them in an endeavor for an ad-
vance. That for four years they have
submitted to reduction after reduction,
but now the nail trade was acknowl-
edged to be in prosperous condition
and the employees in nail factories de-
sired to receive a corresponding adj
vance"
The same paper also said
The scale of prices for rolling mills,
blast furnaces and nail factories is the
matter of paramount interest TO come
before the convention. The Wage Com
mittee has been in session all day, and
will probably continue late into the
night in order 10 be able to make its re-
port by Wednesday. Several members
Of the committee acknowledged this
morning that the base price for pud-
ding would not be altered from $3.50,
but an endeaVOr will he
made in convention to advance
this price TO ST.. The Pittsburg pud-
dlers generality favor demanding the ad-
vance. but the Western delegates are
satisfied with the present rate, and the
workers from Southern mills urge that
it woald be impolitic for them to insist
upon such an advance while several OF
the larger mills in Chattanooga, BIZ
mingham and around Sheffield are un-
organized and the men are now working
for less wages than the Amalgamated
Iron and Steel Workers receive.
There is much speculation this year
among members of the Wage Commit
tee as to the proprety Of again intro
ducing the roll turner's scale. Last
year il was not presented to the manu-
facturers as for SIX years before it had
always been stricken from the scale by
the manufacturers, however, desire to
make the attempt once again.
LAS yet there is apparently no move
ment among the manufacturers looking
to an organization to meet the iron and
steel workers and confer about the
scale. A well-informed gentleman said
this morning that it is not improbable
that the manufacturers OF Western
Pennsylvania may appoint committee
to represent them in case the workers
make any radical changes in the scale.
The permanent officers OF the ASso-
citation will probably be elected.