Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-29
It MAY ALL Be FIXED.
The Steel Manufacturers and
Employees Likely to
Come to Terms.
IRON NOT CONSIDERED YET.
Signing of the Oliver Scale Only Re-
lates to Steel Workers.
BIG CONCERNS AFFIX THEIR NAMES
The Amalgamated People Have Hopes That
They Will Win Cut.
PREPARING FOR STRIKE AT HOMESTEAD

Breaks are being made in the ranks of
the iron and steel manufacturers. During
the past two or three days the complete
scale of the Amalgamated Association has
been signed by several firms, both In this
section and in the Western States Conse-
quently, the delegates to the convention of
the Amalgamated Association have been
given renewed courage. They believe that
before tomorrow night, when the present
scale expires, at least dozen more firms
will be gathered into the fold.
One of the firms expected to sign is the
Illinois Steel Company. They employ
several thousand men. The firm has
already signifed their intention of signing
the Western scale with few changes for
their Bay View mills These changes are
not of a radical pature, and are acceptable
to the employees. The company may at the
same time sign the scale for their works at
Joliet, Ill 1t has also been announced
that if everything is favorable, the owners
of one of the largest industries in the Sixth
district will afix their signatures to the
Amalgamated scale this morning. The
company has large sheet and tin plate
works in connection with its plant.
Another Firm Signs the Scale.
The National Rolling Mills of the Ma
tional Tube Works Company at McKees-
port signed the scale yesterday for another
year. When this announcement was made
in the Amalgamated Convention last even
ing it was received with great applause.
The mill will be shut down for one week
beginning with July 4. This brief suspen-
sion is for the purpose of taking account Of
stock and making repairs The company
employs about 5000 workmen. 1t was
thought probable that communications of q
decisive nature would be received from
Kansas City, Mo-, and Irondale, Minr.
Up until q late hour last night the scale had
not been signed at these places.
While it, remaius true that the Oliver
Iron and Steel Company has signed the
steel scale as published exclusively in THE
DISPATCH of yesterday morning the action
of the firm, it states, does not affect the po-
sition it has held in reference to the iron
scale. Mr. D. B. Oliver said yesterday:
''There was no contention between the COM
pany and our men on the steel scale of
prices. When we signed the scale the
abandonment of the two weeks stop in July
was not taken into consideration. Our en-
pioyes can have their usual vacation. The
fact of our signing the steel scale has no et-
feet whatever on the iron wage list"
The third and last conference of the
Amalgamated Association with the repre-
sentatiYes of the iron and steel sheet manu-
facturers occurred last night The two
committees met at 1880 o'clock and re-
NAMED in session until an early hour this
morning The same point of contention
that marked the two previous sessions was
raised. This was over the wages paid to
the shearman and the matter was thoroughly
ventilated in debate which consumed sew
eral hours
A Settlement Looks Favorable.
A number of committeeman, going to and
from the place of meeting, were questioned.
All united in saying that although the ses-
sion promised to occupy some hours, every
thing pointed to complete settlement.
Concessions had been made by both sides,
and before the final adjournment the Anal
gamated scale for the ensuing year, with
few changes, would very likely be signed
by the dozen or more firms represented.
One of the officials at the head of the
Amalgamated Association, who is also
member of the Conference Committee, was
seen during brief recess of the meeting.
He said: "Frem the way matters look there
will be settlement before we adjourn.
The moment the manufacturers atfix their
signatures to the scale the Amalgamated
Association will have scored another
victory. 1t means a great deal to the
Association to have the steel men make AN
amicable settlement. The majority of them
operate pudding furnaces, and by effecting
a settlement with them the IS 90 basis for
boiling iron will be maintained. Such a
move will have a great deal of bearing on
other firms, and will influence their future
action. 1t will also have a more or less
direct influence upon the Homestead mills,
and trouble at that place may still be
averted."
The committees on the good of the order
and appeals finished their reports at the
Amalgamated convention yesterday. Presi-
dent NJ NJ Garland has named as his as
sstant P. H. McEvay, of Youngstown.
Mr.. McEvay is at present Vice President of
the Sixth district. E. A. Quinn has been
elected Vice President of the Seventh dis
trict in place of Thomas Cunningham, who
refused to serve for another year. The con-
vention yesterday also reelected Mr.. w.
A. Carney as Vice President of the first
division Of the First district.
What They Have Yet to Do.
The business yet to be completed by the
Amalgamated convention is of little i'm
portance The principal matters on the
schedule are the reports of the committees
on Secretary and Treasurer and secret
work. A great many delegates advocated
that the convention hold an extra session
last evening and complete their work. 1t
was decided, however, to hold another
A correspondent at Homestead last even
ing furnished the following: "The nerves
of the workmen are at the highest tension
as they patiently await the developments
of the next few days The least move is
sufficient to excite them. In saloon to-
day stranger said he had come to black
the street and followed by large crowd,
then taken to the river and deposited on
the other side. No violence was offered,
but the men say that such persons must not
be allowed in town.
Another thing that has created some feel
ing in town to-day is the published state.
ment that there are no differences be.
tween the men and the firm, except as to
the termination of the scale. This is said |
to be the smallest matter, while the great
reduction of 25 to 60 per cent is what the
fight is being made on.
1.-TWO suspicious characters were noticed
about the plant last night. They were in
and in response said that they
were clerks. This statement will be inves-
tigated, and should their story prove false
they will be treated to q trip across the