Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-11
OLD RATES RETAINED.
Amalgamated Association Fixed the
Bar Mill Scale Yesterday.
A FIGHT FOR REPRESENTATION.
More Suits Likely to Crop Out of the
Builders Strike.
MISCELLANEOUS INDUSTRIAL ITEMS

The discussion of the iron scale is still on
in the Amalgamated Association, and at the
present rate of progress the document will
be completed about the middle of next
week. Yesterdays session was put in de-
Gliding upon the bar and nail plate mills. 1t
was decided that 20 cents ton should be
the basis for the scale on q two-cent card,
and the scale was soon arranged The dis
cussion on this, as on oil other portions of
the scale, was on the extras. There were
seven clauses in the extra list last year.
Most of these will be retained with q few
additions this year. The main part
of the discussion yesterday was on the
difference in the price to be paid for
rolling on different sized mills. The price
of nail plate rolling will remain at 611 cents
less than bar rolling, while heating nail
plate will be the same price as bar mill heat
ing. The following is a memorandum of the
agreement to be entered into between the
firms and the association at the conference
with the manufacturers after the entire
scale has been decided upon, providing the
former will accept its terms:
The Proposed Memorandum.
We (name of firm) of the first part and -
Lodge of the second part. No. =. State of -,
National Amalgamated Association of Iron and
Steel Workers, of the second part do hereby agree
that the following scale Of prices, based upon the
Western Iron Associations card of prices, shall
govern the wages of the several departments as
herein stated, for one year, commencing July !,
1891 and ending June 30 1892.
1t is further agreed that no scale shall go below
the price paid on the Western Iron Associations g
card selected as basis.
1t Is understood,
First-That iron mills Except sheet mills) work
ing steel shall pay price and One-half price for
STEEL but this shall not apply mild stee that is
working that steel of which the output Of the mill
sizes; but when the output of steel is but three
fourths Of the output of iron, the rule price and
SecondEOn ali mills working iron or steel weigh
ing l6o pounds or over, extra help shall be fur
nished to the heater, the same to be paid by the
company.
was q little fight over the representative
from Shoenberger lodge, whose seat had
been contested at the opening Of the con-
vention. A committee called on President
receiving fair treatment, but he refused to
interfere in the matter, saying the trouble
rested entirely with the lodge. If they
wanted to be represented they would have
to send some one who was eligible.
Anxious for Representation.
Abram Dickinson was then seated by au-
thority of his lodge, but the committee left
the hall with avengtng looks on its members
faces, and declaring that as they paid az
much money into the National lodge treas
ury they would have the representation to
which they were entitled, or know why.
A committee is now at work on the nail
ers' scale, which is the most intricate of all
other scales. 1t is a sliding scale based on
the price of tenpenny nails. The scale will
be reported to the convention as soon as
but will not be considered until
the other business has been disposed Of
There will be few changes made.
The convention departed from its order of
business yesterday morning long enough to
indorse the action of Governor Pattison in
appointing Robert Watchorn, late Secretary
of the United Mine Workers, as Factory In
spector. The attacks made upon the gentle
man by certain individuals and newspapers
in Philadelphia we're resented in strong
terms, and the convention expressed un-
limited confidence in his honesty and ability
to discharge the duties of the position to
which he has been assigned.