Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-19
WAITING FOR A MOVE.
Amalgamated Men and kanufactur-
ers Watching Each Other.
DISCUSSING THE TIN PLATE SCALE.
Belief That There win Be No General Strike
In any Event.
MASS NETTING AT HOMESTEAD TO-DAY

Probably at no time during the present
convention of the Amalgamated Associa-
tion of Iron and Steel Workers was there
such quiet session as that of yesterday.
Little if any new business was transacted.
In the morning detailed report of the pre-
vious days conference with tho tin and
black plate manufacturers was read to the
delegates assembled in Forbes Street Turner
Hall According to this report, after o
discussion Of nearly II hours no agree ment
had been reached, although everything
pointed to . settlement of some kind being
effected when the Wage Committee again
met the manufacturers on Tuesday next
Notwithstanding the statements to the
contrary, the tin and black plate manufac-
turers did not ask for any great redctinon
of wages in the departments where no i'm
proved machinery had been introduced.
They simply wanted an adjustment of the
scale where improvements had been made.
Want to Reduce the Shearmen.
This applied chiefly to the shearing room
and the wages of the shearman was the
ence in the rooms of the Association of Iron
and Steel Sheet Manufacturers on Friday.
The manufacturers argued that they saw
no reason in paying shearman 81 57H
per ton, with 10 per cent added for
soft steel. They contended in paving this
sum that . shearman was enabled to make
from $18 to $40 every day, while he was not
required to put forth any great effort or use
any brain work in the discharge Of his
duties
The morning session at Forbes street hall
adjourned promptly at IL o'clock noon, and
the members did not reassemble until two
hours later. At the afternoon meeting
nothing was done outside of discussing the
scale and formulating plans for future ac-
tion. Just after the delegates had been
called to order Secretary Stephen Madden
read his report; completely reviewing the
work performed by him during the season
now drawing to a close.
Immediately after the adjournment of the
meeting at 4:30 o'clock President William
Weihe said: Nothing of any moment oc-
CURED this afternoon, the session being
very quiet The convention has adjourned
until Monday"
Think tho Quietness Il Ominous.
This quietness on the part of the dele
gates is considered ominous and If anything
out of the ordinary occurs before June 80,
1t will create no great surprise. Among
those who thoroughly understand the situa-
tion, it is current gossip that there will un-
doubtedlv be clash between the Amalga-
mated men and the manufacturers Mr..
Joseph D. Weeks, editor of the
american Manxfacturr and Iron Worid,
said yesterday, "While it is i'm
possible to speak in advance as
to details it seems almost certain that there
L. c-Ik A. khA
posed in the manufacturer scale the gen.
eral expressions of the workmen indicate
that the association will not accept the de-
crease. When say there will be fight
do not mean a clash of general character,
but that the trouble will occur in individual
mills or in groups of mills The fact that
the Pittsburg manufacturers the Mahoning
and Shenaneo manufacturers, the sheet and
tin plate men and others held separate con-
ferences, would go tar to prove this. Con-
cessions may be made on both sides |
before June so. and while some
may sign the scale
others will not Therefore those owners of
mills who sign the scale will not be in the
who still insist upon heavy reductions the
clash will come.
Manufacturers Not Standing Together.
'This explains what mean when I said
there will be no general fight If, on the
other hand, general fight had been in
tended, the manufacturers would have all |
stood together and demanded the reductions
in the Amalgamated scale as a body"
District Vice President McEvoy is
quoted as saying: "If the Carnegie Com !
pany refuse the scale, and non-union men
Are put to work at Homestead,
there will be serious trouble which |
may eliminate in bloodshed and murder |
In reviewing the various expressions made |
BY delegates during the week the prospects |
sre that the workmeA will all 90 out on July |
|, as according to one OF the Wage Com |
nittee no agreement is likely to take place
Tor the present at least. The same gentle
nan when asked what the prospects were,
aid: 'It is folly to speculate which side
will win if the promised trouble occurs.
The outcome which is now merely q matter
If conjecture may be test of resources and
endurance"
An open meeting of all the employees at
he Homestead Steel Works will be held
his morning at 10 o'clock, at which the pro-
posed reductions embodied in Carnegie,
ohipps & Co.'S new sliding scale will be