Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-20
THE JOBBING SCALE.
Manufacturers Will Have to Accept
the New Wage List
BEFORE 1T BECOMES EFFECTIVE.
Howe, Brown & Co. Sign the New ANAL
gamated Scale.
TWO PUBLIC DEMONSTRATIONS TO-DAY

Disputes between the sheet manufacture
ers and their workmen over the jobbing
mill scale has been practically settled. Be-
fore the new wage list becomes effective it
will have to be agreed to by the concerns
operating these mills. Of these firms there
are only five in the country. They are
Shoenberger & Co, of this city; Etna Iron
and Steel Company, Bridgeport, o.; Stand
ard Iron Company, of the same place; Ma
honing Valley Iron Company, of Youngs-
town, and the Sharon Iron Company, Linn
ited, Oh Sharon, Pa
In connection with the jobbing scale it
might be stated that the manufacturers and
their workmen held a conference to arrange
scale for the ensuing year, but no agree
ment was reached. Several times after
ward representatives from both sides met,
but the discussions were merely of an in
formal character At last it was decided to
place the matter in the hands of Secretary
Jarrett and the Amalgamated officials.
These gentlemen met and finally arranged
the scale. 1t is not expected that any of
The manufacturers owning jobbing mills
will object to the new scale, notwithstand-
ing the fact that only one of the five firms
has publicly signifed its intention of start
ing.
First sisner of the Jobbing sca'e.
This one firm is the Sharon Iron Com
pany. 1t is stated they will begin opera
tions at once and it is not improbable that
the other concerns will follow closely in its
wake. 1t is now almost a week since
the negotiations were completed and if the
rh>Ht tAn r,r,fo oat,r nnf HA1
with the scale it is believed that they would
have made protest long ago. On this ac-
count 1t is generally conceded that the job
bng mill scale has been signed and az re-
suit five more names have been added to the
list of signatures to the Amalgamsted scale.
Up until last night, not including the
Pittsburg manufacturers, 81 sheet mills and
63 iron and steel works were included in the
signers of the Western scale of prices. The
last firm to come into line was Howe, Brown
& Co., of this city. Their works are located
st Seventeenth street and Penn avenue.
The plant was built in 1852
The concern has 13 single pudding fur
naces, 40 heating furnaces and Is hammers,
with % furnaces, smith shop fires and
one smith shop steam hammer Also one
double and four single annealing furnaces,
six 24-pot and two 30-pot crucible steel
melting furnaces, IL trains of rolls and one
rake tooth factory with IL bending ma
chimes and IL heating furnaces. There is
one machine shop in the works with eight
lathes, planers, etc. The product is cruci-
BILE cast steel in bars, sheets, rods, plates
and special forgings, with an annual capac-
ity of Il, 900 net tons of ingots.
Production of the Mill.
The open hearth steel department has one
9O-gross ton furnace, built in 1886, and one
20-gross ton furnace built in 1890. The
product is spring, pillow and machinery steel
and plates for boilers, hulls of vessels, ETC.,
with an annual capacity of 5000 net tons
of plates 4, 900 net tons of machinery steel,
1900 net tons of plow steel and 1000 net |
tons of spring steel. The scale that Howe,
Brown & Co. signed Is the iron scale, and |
does not include their steel departments.
1t is expected, however, that their steel |
scale will be fixed in few days.
The fact that Howe, Brown & Co. had |
signed the the new Amalgamated scale was |
received very graciously at the headquar-
ters of the association yesterday. Secretary |
Stephen Madden said it would not be long |
now before the signatures Of all of the out /
standing iron and steel firms would be in.
Secretary Madden reports that to-day |
there will be demonstration at Scotdale in |
in the interest of the locked out Homestead |
men. Jere Dougherty and J. C. Killgallon
will address the crowd. About the same
time there will be another in Newark, n. /
j., under the auspices of the trade organiza- /
tions and citizens. William Roberts, of |
Homestead, will take an active part