Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-09
APPEALING FOR AID.
Striking Tradesmen Want Iron and
Steel Men to Help Them.
OLD Pudding SCALE ADOPTED.
Large Increases in the Annual Output of
BituminOus Coal. D
BIG IMPROVEMENTS IN MANY MILLS

A committee representing the carpenters
and bricklayers who have been on strike for
nearly six weeks will be given q hearing be-
fore the Amalgamated Association Conven-
tion this morning. The purpose of this
visit is to lay the carpenters difficulty before
the convention and ask for aid both moral
and financial. The same committee went to
the convention and endeavored to secure a
hearing, but the time of the convention was so
absorbed in the discussion of the wages
question that the committee was requested
to return this morning. 1t is not quite GER
tain that the carpenters will secure financial
aid from the Amalgamated Association, al
though it is probably the most needy.
Some of the strikers claim that two weeks
benefits are coming to them, and that the
leaders have been putting them off by ex-
cuses that money had to be brought from
San Francisco. The Amalgamated Associa-
ton has about s175,OOO to $1SO,OO0 in its
treasury, but as strikes are almost sure
to occur at Steelton, Harrisburg and
many other points where the association
will need its funds, the members are.not
willing to vote much of their money away
for any other purpose.
Getting in Some Live Work.
Yesterdays session was probably the live
liest session yet held. The delegates who
are in favor of Sc q ton for boiling
were on hand early, after spending
all day Sunday gathering up data as to
the condition of trade and the profits
for an iron manufacturer under the
present scale. The scale was voted on in
the afternoon, and although the proposition
of the scale committee to adopt last years
wages was passed, 1t Is not unlikely that the
matter may come up again for considera-
ton. There were number of those who
to6 nd xaf ia nj
wages so as to be in position to move for a
reconsideration before the scale is adopted
finally.
This permitted the convention to proceed
farther than it would have done otherwise,
and the indications are that they will finish
the scale this week. In this event the con-
vention will not be in session three weeks.
nitely settled it will not require much
time to act on the remainder.
There are few changes to be made in the
scale outside small alterations in the lists Of
extras. All of these extras are receiving the
fullest consideration, and the discussion at
times grows very warm. President Weihe
has hard times trying to secure order, but
he generally succeeds.
Dizziness of the Carpentc-S Strike.
There were no new developments in the
carpenters strike yesterday. The bosses
have quit claiming that the men are return
ing to work. They say it is entirely useless
to make any more claims; that the strike is
losing itself, or rather, gradually dying out.
Some contractors say they have all the men
they want, while others are working about
half their usual quota of men.
Chairman Swartz said yesterday that the
benefits are all being paid and that the
Strike Committee is busy directing its atten-
tion to the new Union Supply Company. Ex-
Agent Irwin came out yesterday maintain
ing his former position on the planning mill
question, and o number of planning mill men
said last night if they had the assurance of
the bosses that the latter would stand by
them and protect them, there would not be
any hesitancy in returning to work.
There was good deal of interest around
Joslyn' s theater, where the bricklayers are
still at work.