Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-23
STEEL MEN TO CONFER.

Members Of the Amalgamated Will Meet
General Manager Potter To-Day and
Discuss the New Homestead Steel Scale
Tho Work Of tho Convention.
At 10 o'clock this morning Q conference
will be held between the Steel Conference
Committee of the Amalgamated Association
on one side and General Manager Potter, Of
the Carnegie Steel Company, Limited, on
the other The new Homestead steel scale
will be discussed. The conference was ar.
ranged after much labor by the Amalga-
mated Steel Wage Committee, who visited
Homestead and secured Mr.. Pot
ter's consent to conference.
He told the committee he desired the mat
ter arranged as speedily as possible. The
committee will report the result Of their ef-
forts to the convention, which holds con-
tinuous session at Forbes street Turner
Hall to-day.
The greater part of to-day's work will be
confined to the reports from standing COM
mittees. Afterward the convention will
adjourn, to enable delegates to prepare tor
the banquet at Homestead this evening.
Yesterday the delegates assembled as
usual at 10 o'clock, but soon adjourned in
order to give the dozen or more business
committees chance to finish some impor-
tant matters on hand for . week or more.
While. the convention was still in session
yesterday news was brought to President
Weine that the men connected with the
transportation department of Carnegie,
Phipps & Co. had signed scale presented
to them by General Manager Potter. Ac-
cording to the terms of the scale the en-
gineers and conductors each receive q cents
per hour, while the firemen receive 18 cents
and the brakemen % cents. The scale is
June %, 1892, and ending June %, 1885,
The delegates were very much pleased at
the promise of at least one scale being ad-
justed satisfactorily. This scale is known
as the tin house, or Mckinley scale which
was thoroughly discussed and practically
settled at meeting. That meeting began
at 7:3O o'clock Tuesday evening, and lasted
until o'clock yesterday morning.
John Jarrett, Secretary of the Manufac-
turers' Association, at the conclusion of the
session, said 'the regulation scale of the
sheet, tin and terne plate mills as arranged
by the AmaIgamated Association had been
accepted by the manufacturers with two or
three changes"
According to Secretary Madden, of the
Amalgamated Association, there are still
two points of dispute, the wages paid to the
shearman, and the amount Of money paid by
the manufacturers for working No u gauge
and heavier when it is 48 inches or more in
width. This, matter, it is expected, will be
arranged in few days.
During the meeting last night the ANAL
gamated Association showed they were will
ing to make any fair concessions in the
scale by agreeing to the manufacturer
that the workmen should here
after work the full eight hours regardless of
the output. Heretofore the output regu-
lated the days work, and the men some
times completed their labors in from ~ to
8 hours The Conference Committee also
conceded q reduction in the wages of the
feeder employed at the shears, but 1t was
not sufficient to satisfy the manufacturers.
The matter will be laid before the Amalga-
mated Association convention for final set
tlement, and when it has been satisfactorily
the manufacturers will sign the
scale.