Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-11
THE PTTTSBURG DISPATCH,

| improved squaring shears, the price for
shesring on the same be made local. 2.
| Thft on old style twohigh plate mills. the
| prices psid rodgaer and catcher and all day
han ds lie put in the scale.
No. l. Alabama-That clause Is of sheet
| mill scale read as follows: All mills work
ing plates and firebed lighter than IL gauge
! (insscad Of 10 as at presently be termed job
| bing mills.
No II and 80, Pennsylvania; 56 and SO,
| Ohio; and 9, Indiana, and 8, West Vir-
| ginia, suggest a number of rather unim-
/ portant changes in the sheet mill hands
! scale that are not likely to cause much diff
| Guilty in the convention. The changes, as
usual, are proposed by mill hands, and as
they have few representatives in the con-
vention they are likely to fare as the
roughers and catchers have done in years
gone by.
Increase in the Tin Plate Scale.
In the old tin and black plate mill, No. 46,
Pennsylvania, wants a so per cent advance
for all guages from 80 to 38.
No 3, Ohio, desires the following new
scale for tin house men:
For For mncbtpe nand piekng cents cents
The above means double picking.
For Timing. 15 cents
for wasnihg 10 cents
For catchlng ..-......................... cents
tOr asserting. cents
Three sets to constitute an asserting Job.
On all orders calling for double rolling,
the washman shall receive Is cents per box
and the catcher g.
Fourteen by twenty to be the standard
size. All odd sizes to be paid for according
to the surface, and all guages weighing over
H0 pounds to the box shall be paid according
to weight.
On ali orders 2ox2s and over, there shall be
a dipper put on with the washman, the same
to be cents per box
No. 6, Missouri, offers the following for
the tin mills:
First-That the tin mills be allowed to
make 36 boxes ION an average) per turn, and
the catcher be paid s. 25 for the same.
Second-That for all guages above No. %
special prices lie made.
The scale proposed by No. 3, of Ohio, has
little show of being adopted. The tin
plate manufacturers have signi6ed their
willingness to pay on the basis of IL cents
per box for the standard size, 14x20, which
is Just double the price paid in Wales, and
a member Of the Amalgamated Association
told a DISPATCH reporter a few days ago
that there would be no trouble about having
this accepted.
In the structural scale No. 43, Pennsyl-
vania, wants the buggyman's rate on the 20
inch mills changed from 10 to II cents per
ton.
Advances ir the Wire Rod Scale.
A few slight advances are asked for in
the wire rod mill scale, but there is nothing
of much Importance asked for.
No. 81, Pennsylvania, suggests the follow
ing new scale for journeymen roll turner's,
to take the place of the scale now in force:
First-The wages of journeymen roll turn
ers shall be S. 90 per day of nine hours work |
at a cent card, and an increase of LILO cent
on the manufacturers bar iron card to in |
crease the wages per cent.
Second-That time and half time be paid |
for over time and all regular night work |
until regular quitting time on Saturday, |
lar starting time on Monday morning.
Third-No man working by the day is al
lowed to work more than one tool on sand
iron and two on chilled iron.
Fourth-That three years constitutes an |
apprenticeship at roll turning.
In the addenda two lodges from Ohio and |
one from Wisconsin unite in asking for the
repeal of the rule giving the boilers helper
one-third and per cent of the boilers
wages. This was the cause of peck of |
trouble in the Sixth district last year. The
boilers were willing to give the one-third,
helpers are again mot in it, the chances
are greatly in favor of the per cent extra
being cut off this year.
A committee was appointed yesterday to
draft suitable resolutions Oh the death of
Treasurer Penney.
The Executive Board of the First district
met yesterday afternoon and tooksactiop on
the trouble at Lockhart's mills.
An Argument for Lower Wages.
A prominent representative of Pittsburg's
iron and steel industry writes Bradstreet's
that "wages are still paid on basis of ~
cents" and therefore, ''are out of all pro-
portion with the 1.6-cent base, and less, at
which bar iron has been selling for year"
It is added that "wages, therefore, must
bear its share of the burden or the iron trade
will suffer. The readiness with which this
view is accepted will determine very largely
how long the present depression shall
last" These words are significant, in view
of Western iron makers demands for re-
ductions of wages of from II to 25 per cent,
and the outlook is for contest between
them and the Amalgamated Iron and Steel
Workers. Iron and steel generally are as
low and dull as ever.