Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-07-08
HISTORY OF the CASE.
Showing the Causes and Various Steps in the
Great Homestead Trouble.

Andrew thTUtkie steer NoTks are 10
Gated in the borough of Homestead. town
ship of Mifiin. Penn. The borough is eight
miles southeast of Pittsburg, on the Monon-
gahela river, and is station on the Pitts
burg. Virginia 4 Charleston, and F., Mex.
& Y. railroads.
The works cover an area of nearly 400
acres and employ nearly 1000 men in all
grades of the steel manufacture. The mills
greatest products are ariDor plates for the
nited States government
Their employees after the difficulty with
the company in 1889 went to work on a
three-year sliding scale of wages. Ii pro-
viied that the wages should be adjusted
every three months on the basis of the SELL
ing price of steel, and that the minimum
rate should be S2l ton-that is, for every
dollar above S2j per ton at which steel
billets were sold the workman shenld re-
ceiye proportionate advance. but if steel
billets were sold for less than S2j per ton,
wages should not fall below the minimum
rate agreed upon.
Upon March the Carnegies notified the
worknen that after June 30, when the ex-
listing scale agreement expired, there would
he a adjustment of wages.
\ number of conferences were held be-
tween the firm and the men, who were rep
resented by leaders of the Amalgamated
Association of Iron and Steel Workers,
upon the question of specific read justment,
which brought the time down to 10 weeks
ago.
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