Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-16
GREAT REDUCTIONS MADE
By the Manufacturers in the New
Iron and Steel Scale.
A DECREASE OF 20 TO 4OPER CENT.
Youngstown Manufacturers Will Meet the
Committee To-Day.
ROD MILL MEN REDUCED 10 PER CENT

OF the Amalgamated Association OF Iron
and Steel Workers and the committee rep
resenting the manufacturers met in room
No. 701, Ferguson block. No time was lost
in preliminary arrangements. Both scales
were Immediately submitted for inspection,
and after the session had convened for about
an hour it was promptly adjourned.
The scale of the Amalgamated Associa-
tion shows but few changes over the one
now in use, while the scale of the manufac-
turers makes a reduction of from 20 to AZ
per cent in the wages of the various work.
men employed in the mills. This morning
at o'clock the manufacturer scale will be
presented to the delegates of the Amalga-
mated Association in session at Forbes
Street Turner Hall for inspection, but that
it will not be accepted is more than pRoba-
BILE. d,
One of the Wage Committee said last
evening: 'T have just completed an exam
ination of the manufacturer scale and find
that the reduction in prices is something
enormous. That the delegates will not even
consider the propositions embodied in it is
positive"
In making a comparison Of both scales
the first noticeable change is in the boiling
of iron. The base rate of the Amalgamated
Association is S. 30, while the correspond
ing rate of the manufacturers is 81 80. In
the foot notes thcre is also great change
in the eighth clause. This reads: "For
half wrought iron turnings and half cast
iron swarth worked on cinder bottom the
price to be 30 cents per ton below the
straight price paid for boiling" According
to the associations scale this would be S..
The manufacturers reduce this to So 30. In
the boiling department the reading of the
fourteenth clause in the associations scale
is somewhat changed. It is now as follows:
"Where pot metal or stove plate is worked
alone or mixed so cents per ton extra shall
be paid
Only One Change on Muck Mills.
The association has only made one change
in the muck or puddle mill department.
This occurs in the third clause and the
word heavy has been inserted, making it
read as follows: "Busheling heavy scrap
and wrought iron turnings on sand bottom
to be 80 cents per ton above the current
price for piles on boards" In this department
the manufacturers have changed the base
rate from 81 90 to 81 Co. In the manufac-
turers' scale knobbling has been overlooked,
so that the association does not know
whether there will be any change in that de-
partment or not The present price paid
for heating slabs and shingling is 70 cents
per thousand. Here the manufacturers
have made cut of 33H per cent, making
the new price so cents. In bar and nail
plate mills the price has been decreased by
the manufacturers from 20 cents to 80 cents,
or about % per cent In this department
occurs the greatest cha nge of AZ per cent.
In the manufacture of groove skelp the
roller is reduced by the manufacturers from
20 to 43 cents, and the heater from 20 to 46
cents.
The Amalgamated Associations scale
reads that for rolling guide, ten-inch, hoop
and cotton tie iron the price paid shall be
81 40. This the manufacturers reduce to
81 09, with corresponding reduction
throughout the entire department The
present scale of the Amalgamated Asso-
citation reads that in 'sngles" the roller is
to receive 81 80 for size 1Z-3-16, the
heater SOC and the rougher and catcher
each 40c The new SCALE however, changes
the price of the roller to 81 30, the heater
Is and the rougher and catcher each 37k
cents. The scale of the manufacturers,
in this department, however, demands a re-
duction of 25 per cent. If these prices in
the manufacturer scale are correct in the
hoop and cotton tie mills there has been Q
of from 80 to 40 per cent
Increased the Days Work.
In the second clause of the foot notes
under this department the Amalgamated |
Association has changed the reading so that |
a three-turn mill is now provided for, en- |
abling the manufacturer to increase the out |
put to 1,230 bundles of cotton ties, while |
last year only $40 bundles we're as much as |
could be turned out in days work.
In the same clause there is paragraph |
which reads: ''For mills working double
turn AIS bundles shall constitute days
work every day in the week except Satur-
day, and for Saturday 400 bundles shall
constitute days work" This is change
over the present scale, in which 40 bundles
constitute days work and 1926 bundles on
In the guide and ten-inch scale
the manufacturers have cut all the foot
notes out, leaving the Amalgamated
Association to suppose that cor
reduction also occurs in
the different shapes dealt with there.
In the plate and bank mills, according to
the manufacturers' scale, the roller is re-
duced from 72 to 80 cents, and the heater
from 80 to So cents. In the foot notes the
have cut off extras on the 10
to IL gauge, and they also state that where
q greater product is made prices are still to
be reduced In the manufacturers' scale
nothing is mentioned of rolling pipe iron or
sheet and jobbing. In roughing and CATCH
ing on sheet and jobbing mills the scale of
the Amalgamated Association has been
changed so that where a mill averages
under 2, $50 it is classed as a small mill, but
when ir averages over this amount it is
to be classed as large mill.
On the small mills day laborers
are to receive So %, while on the large
mills the wages are 50 60. In the above
department the manufacturers have also
left the Amalgamated Association in the
dark, as they have not even mentioned any
thing about roughing and catching on sheet
and jobbing mills.
Iron workers' Wages Cut in Two.
In the structural mills the manufacturers
have reduced the heater from 20 to 46 cents.
the roller from 20 to 43 cents, the catcher
from 43A to SO cents, and a corresponding
reduction of SO per cent with the balance
Of the workmen in this department The
scale does not touch upon
SCRAP or top and bottom mills, large uni