The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-07-02
THE IRON WORKERS.
Thousands Of Men Out of Work AL
. Over the Country

HOMESTEAD, Pa, July 2.-Yesterday
morning notide was posted at the en-
| trance to the company's office enjoining
all employees from the highest to the
lowest that they would be paid off in
full today between the hours of noon
and o'clock. About 1000 men in all
will receive their money and also no.
tices of discharge, Barring the fact that
the crowd of worIsmen may be noisy, no
demonstration is anticipated.
A member Of the advisory board Of
the locked out workmen said yesterday:
"Mr. tricks statement that only 2S8
men were affected by the new scale is a
mistake. Every man in the mill suffers
by IT, and we can prove it. The general
reductions in all departments range
from TO 10 per cent, and in some as
high as 40 per cent"
While 1t cannot be exactly estimated,
yet the loss to the Carnegie company
each day the mill is idle is quite heavy
and amounts to thousands of dollars.
In case the firm refuses to recede from
its present determined stand there will
be great danger of being unable to fill
the government and Worlds fair con-
tracts. The company is under a $780,
600 bond for the completion of large
amount OF armor plate, and unless the
old men are taken back or new men &c.
cured there is a probability of the gov
ernment demanding forfeiture.
PITTsBuRa, July Sup to 2. 80 yester-
day afternoon the only additional sig
nature received to the Amalgamated as
sociation wage scale were those of the
6cottdale, Pa, Iron and Steel company,
and the Covington, Ky, Steel company.
There are beyond doubt more idle
men in Pittsburg and vicinity today
than there has been at any one
time for the past fifteen years. 1hs em-
ployes of all the iron mills except the
sheet mills are walking the streets. 1t
was complete shut down. Every mill
has suspended and there are 10000 idle
In that part of Pittsburg. At nearly all
of the iron mills in the district mill
wrlghts and mechanics are at work MAX
ing necessary repairs, and at some, at
least, the shut down is known to be but
temporary, as the manufacturers have
assured employees that work will resume
as soon as repairs and stock taking are
completed.
AT the request of the iron and steel
manufacturers of the Pittsburg district
representatives of the manufacturers
SILVA tiAo iCS DI Inc AIllal-
gamated Association of. Iron and Steel
workers met in conference on the wage
scale yesterday afternoon. The confer
ence lasted from to 6:30 o'clock and
was without result. The time was oc-
cnpied in arguing the demands of both
parties, the manufacturers demanding
the acceptance of a e450 basis and the
Amalgamated say $3.50 for boiling iron.
To compromise scale was offered or dis
cussed.
The conference adjourned to meet on !
Wednesday next. No settlement of
the differences is in sight, and the feel
ing seems to be that disastrous wage
war is at hand.
Three additional signatures were re-
ceived at the Amalgamated headauar-
ters yesterday as follows: Mitchell 81
Trauter, Coyington, KY; Indiana Roll
ing mill, Mnney, Ind, and Carnegies
steel mill, Twenty-ninth street, Pitts
burg.
CLEVELAND, July 2.-The Cleveland
rolling mill closed yesterday, and it is
impossible to tell when it will reopen.
The mill usually shuts down for repairs
during the summer, but the present sus-
pension is due to the trouble between
the manufacturers and the Anal
gamated Association of Iron and Steel
Workers.
ST. LOUIS, July e.-As result of
refusal to sign the scale adopted by the
Amalgamated ssse citation In session for
week past at Pittsburg, the heaters,
rollers and puddlers employed by the
Helmbacher Forge and Rolling mills
company, numbering 100, quit work
yesterday and the mills have been shut
down.
LANCASTER, Pa. July e.-The Sus-
quehanna and Columbia Iron companies
of Columbia, closed down for an in
definite period for repairs. Over five
hundred men are thrown out of work