Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-08-18
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Homestead go Hungry.
HOMESTEAD, PA, Aug. 1.-THE head
cook at the Carnegie steel works went on
strike yesterday afternoon and left taking
with him n cooks and walters. AS
result many non-llnion men went With
out their suppers, and the loclked.out
men are claiming partial victory The
head cook quarrelled with Superintend
ent Potter. The cook asserted that
when they are paid OIL on Saturday $50
non-union men will leave the works, as
they are dissatisfied with tho life they
are obliged to lead.
A SATISFACTORY COMPROMISE.
PITTsBuRG, Pa, Aug. 1.-the wage
conference between the Amalgamated
! Association and the Iron Manufacturers
representatives camo to an end last even
ing in u most satisfactory manner. Both
sides express themselves satisfied with
the result.
The conference has been in session
almost continuously for eight weeks and
up until to-day practically nothing was
accomplished
The arbitration proposition submitted
by the manufacturers was not agreed to
by the Amalgamated Association.
| BOIH SIDES WELD.
In the basis of the settlement arrived
at both sides, made concessions, the
manufacturers agreeing To pay $3.50
Tor pudding and the workmon's repre-.
sontativcs consenting to 10 per cent
reduction in the finishing departments,
Other minor concessions were made
by both sides and when the conference
adjourned finally last evening nothing
remained to be done but the formal
signing Of the scale.
MORE THAN $4,000 MEN AFFECTED.
Tho result affects more than $4,000
men in various parts of the country,
most of them being skilled workmcn,
aud through these skilled men II vastly
larger number are indirectly affected
The effect Of tine adjustment Of the
disputes on labor difficulties in Western
Pennsylvania will be in favor of the
worllnen, as many small manufacturers
not represented in the Manufacturers
Committee will now be forced 10 sign
the Amalgamatcd scale There was
general rejoicing throughout the city
last night over the settlement of the
scale.
PITTsBuRG, Pa, Aug. 1.-THE Car
ncgic Steel Company is affected III two
, ways by the agreement of the Amalga-
mated Association and the manufac-
lures, ON the iron scale, one way i'll its
favor and one against it.
Secretary lovejoy, in speaking of the
/ agreement, said: "Ihis agreement both
helps and hurts us. Our scale Is almost
identical with the scale prepared by the
Amalgamatcd Association. There are
; one or two slight differences as to the
, division of the wages, but the cost TO Us
is exactly the same rs the scale Of the
e Amalgamated Association.
+ "l'his agreement will hurt us to the
| extent that we will have 10 pay 10 pei
, cent more in the finishing department
! than the manufacturers who sign tho
Amalgamated scales. They get tn,
@ benefit of the 10 per cent reduction il
. the finishing department and we do not
= This may also hurt us TO the eXten
$ of stiffening the backbone Of tn,
c strikers. II means work for thousands
of men who are members of the Anal
gamated Association, and enables then
to pay increased benefits to the striker
i at Homestead and our other mills.
I'VE see that result very easily, ant
= II may further postpone the time whel
y our old men will return to us for work
i but it is only question of time until al
will want TO come back"
|, WHERE 1T WILL mELP.
!, con the other hand" Secretary Love
l. joy added, "the agreement TO a reduc
: ton Of 10 per cent in the finishing dc
L partment should help us. | think til
r. fact that we pay 90 per cent more in thi
4 department than any other mills SHOULD
g attract to our mills all men who ar
9 anxious for good wages and believ
y this will be the result"
d HELD EoR COURT.
!" At the hearing to-day of thinner an
,e Conner, the alleged assailants Of foh
Is Reams, the non-union workman, the &C
At cused were held for court in $500 eact
2 PIrrsBuRG, Pa, Aug. t3.--rhe late,
lie move of the Amagamatcd Association
u an attempt to get the iron establishment
of 'itsburg and elsewhere to refuse mi
terinls that come from the Carnegie mill.
A circular headed, appeal to Working
rs men, is now in thecourSc of distribution
hr l. reads thus:
G, You are requested not to work IN in
ID materials that may be shipped from til
a. works of the Carnegie Steel Company dul
y iE:E the present strike. BY so doing 70
d will help us gain victory III our prescn
struggle for organization.
Dr "CoMMfrTEF or STRiK FRS"
n The Pittsburg firms will first be supple
4. with the circulars and then attention wi
Dl be turned to other manufacturers.
m CLAIMS OF SUPERINTENDENT POTTER.
ii Superintendent Potter, of Homestead
a. claimed last night that he has met III
~. workers challenge that when any mat
81 rial made by the non-union men was u
IN copied il was time TO cOncedc the grci
| CT H. L., AZ
to them. lie says that Il carloads of plat,
he ana channels have been accepted after il
Il spection by the parties TO whom they We
consigned, and also that the official inspe
c- ton of Gl tons of beams rolled to-da
through the iO-inCh rolls have been favo
able on all but one beam, rs good an ave
age as made by the old beam mill crew
ot we have AT last commenced husine
j., commercially" he said, 'and from no
" ON the plant will be in operation Just
- though there haC been no strike or Ioc
TO OUT
To CLAIMS NOT ADMITTED.
OF The Advisory Committee. when notitie
is was 10th to accept the statement and CO.
ii. tended that the shipments were pure
ID. scrap or spoiled steel. Nevertheless, mut
NJ solicitation is felt among tho men over II
j., effect OF the proposed boycott ON Carneg
=" material by the Executive Committee
~ the Federation Of Labor, now III session
PittSbmrg, and this is accepted as an q,
dence that they are beginning to give or
lst dGncc to the assertions Of the steel cor
MS pany.
nd The lOcked-out men have been sing
in larry inactive for week, and arc appa
icl emily playing a waiting game, for there a
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