Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-02
1T WILL BE A FIGHT.

| The Trouble at the vesuyius Mill Still I'm
| settled-An Attempt Will Be Made to
Start the Mill Non -Union-vice President
Sheehan Talks.
The difficulty at Moorhead Bros. & Co. s
ferences will be held. The final meeting
was held with the firm yesterday, and
the latter will try to start the mill
with non-union men tomorrow morning.
The strike has been duly authorized by the
Amalgamated Association, however, and
! the officials still regard the settlement
reached by the conference committee bind
ing on Mr.. Moorhead, as shown by the
following statement made at midnight last
night by Vice President Sheehan, of the
First district.
'sWhen the Conference Committee met
in June Mr.. Bailey arose and said they
would would sign last years scale, with no
increases in the cost. Mr.. Moorhead was
present Mr.. Bailey spoke for the manu-
facturers During the discussions Mr..
Oliver objected to an alleged discrimina-
ton in the plate mill wages as compared
with Carnegie's mills and so did Mr. Moor
head.
WOULDN'T STAND THE SCALE.
sPresident Weihe offered to give the
same rates as allowed the Carnegies if the
same facilities were put in. Mr.. Moorhead
attended several conference meetings after
that and we never understood by word or
act that he was not going to abide by the
scale adopted by that committee. On the
evening of June 30 the scale was signed for
the manufacturers by Mr.. Oliver. Presi-
dent Weihe asked if the scale was to be
signed for all manufacturers that attended
IL or,l fhn rar
| was in the affirmative. We understood that
| Mr.. Moorhead was included in the sigma
| ture, and received no notice to the opposite
until his manager offered revised scale for
the roll hands on the plate mill, which
meant considerable reduction over last
| years scale, but said nothing about the
rollers. On last Monday a week, 1, accom-
| panied bv the mill committee, interviewed
+ Mr.. Lewis at the company's Office in Sharps-
burg He showed us the revised scale and
said if the men would accept it he would
try to effect a settlement with Mr.. Moor
head, but he would give us no assurance
that the scale would be accepted by Mr..
Moorhead
''The roll hands then offered to accept 10
per cent of reduction. President Weihe
and l had conference with Mr. Moorhead
and found that he had taken stand against
the association and claiming, because
he wasn't present when the scale was
signed, that he was not bound by Mr..
divers signature and, to our surprise, de-
manded a reduction of the rollers wages,
as well as roll hands. He claimed to have
evidence that some members of the organi-
zation had special arrangements and were
paying rebates to their firms. This we de-
MED
THE REDUCTION ON ROLLERS.
"On Thursday last President Riddle, of
Guyasuta Lodge, and myself had another
talk with Mr.. Moorhead who still insisted
upon reduction in the rollers wages. On
Friday all the plate rollers in both cities
met in the national Office. In the presence
of Mr.. Moorhead's rollers, all but one as
serted that they were willing to make afi-
davit that Mr.. Moorhead was mistaken
about rollers working under special agree
ments. Robert May, of Moorhead & Nc
Cleane. said he got scale wages on iron and
a salary when working on steel.
''Mr. Moorhead says he paid his plate
rollers over $4,000 last year. This is an
error. The mill worked 1861 days. The
average capacity was % tons; at 72 cents
they earned $40 16 day, less 81 so to boy,
or SIT 66, instead of over S2S And instead
of paying over $40, 900 to both rollers, he
paid each one 81, 529 70. The wages of all
other roll hands will compare about the
same. In other words, the figures in Mr..
Moorhead's circular are about 25 per cent
too high"