Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1894-10-17

men he wanted at SI per day. The mills will be in readiness to start on OctobeI 18th.
 The Trenton Iron Company has reduced the wages of it's employees 10 per cent, beginning on October 2d.
 The Morewood Tin Plate Works, in Elizabeth, N. J., have closed down, and it is said that they will not be reopened,
 4 reduction of 10 per cent in wages has been announced by the Atlantic Iron Works, Arethusa Iron Works and the Wire Nail Mill, all of Newcastle, Pa.
 The Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, after long conference on October 18th. agreed to accept the scale of wagns pro- posed by the Joliet branch of the Illinois Steel Company, and the fires in the mill will soon be lighted again. The scale will be II cents an hour for day laborers. and 33 per cent reduction on tonnage.
 The Pottsviiie Iron and Steel Company, of Pottsyille, Pa, has ordered a reduction of wages at it's rolling mills of 10 per cent, except in such cases where 1t will make rate below 10 cents per hour. Pud- dlers will receive 8 per ton. The mills will suspend on October 2d for week
 The Oliver Iron and Steel Com pany, of Pittsburg, Pa, started up the pudding department of the South Fifteenth street mill, with non-union men, October 23d. The puddlers at the Sligo mill have re- fused to accept 10 per cent re- duction in wages. The men expect to be replaced by non-union pud- dlers.
 The rolling mill of the Oxford Iron and Nail Company, of Oxford, N. J. resumed operations October 23d. the men accepting reductions of from 10 to 25 per cent.
 The Mingo Stetl and Iron Mill, at Mingo Junction, w. Va, closed down indefinitely, October 23d, throwing 500 men out of work.
 One of the two furnaces of K. Hecksher & Sons, at Swedeland, Pa. went out of blast on the a inst, throwing 100 men out of employ ment.
 In the Ohio Valley the men an- tieipate long shut down and have asked the Amalgamated officials to reconvene the conference committee for the purpose of offering the manufacturers cut of 10 per cent iu the scale. Official notice from the Wheeling lodges has beer re- eeived at the Amalgamated general office, and a circular has been sent | to all the sub-lodges in the associa- tion to vote on the proposition. The plate mill of the Ellis X Lessing Iron and Steel Company, Pottstown, Pa, resumed operations October 10th, the employees agree ing, after a conference, to accept the reduction until the return of better times. They are to work five days a week and three weeks a month. The puddlers have not yet decided to accept the proposed re- duction in their wages, which, they claim would lower them to $2.50 a ton, but it is believed they will do so.
 Advices from Pittsburg, Pa, say that the reduction of 10 per cent in the sheet iron scale, wanted by some of the manufacturers, will likely be | granted. In June last the manu- lecturers signed the scale. Few os the mills resumed until two months later. Many of them are now run ming but will shut down unless a reduction is given them.
 Potts Brothers Rolling Mill, at Pottsville Pa, closed October 14th, until further orders.
 NOVEMBER, 1893. The Reading Rolling Mill Con- pany, of Reading, Pa, has notified its employees that in order to keep the plant running it would be necessary to make a ten per cent reduction in wages, and reduce the puddlers to B per ton. The em- ployees are inclined to accept the reduction. The plant employs over 300 hands. Every department is in operation.
 1t is stated that the Peun Iron Company, Limited, at Lancaster, Pa., has decided to close it's rolling mill and orher works on account of lack of orders. The company has employed $50 men.
 Operations were resumed at the Portage Iron Works, Duncansville, Pa, October 30th. The workmen in the finishing mills accepted an average reduction of D per cent in their wages. The works give em- ployment to 800 men.
 The Parkeshurg Iron Company, Parkesburg, Pa, has, it is stated, given notice of general reduction of 20 per cent in wages.
 Late adyices from Pittsburg, Pa, state that there will be no strike as the sheet mill workers. The diff culty between the manufacturers aud workers was settled November 22d, the basis of the settlement be- ing l5 per cent reduction in wages of the rollers. The manufacturers left the scale question in the hands of John Jarrett, secretary of the Association of Iron and Steel Sheet Manufacturers, President Garland, of the Amalgamated Association said: We concede the demands of the manufacturers on condition that the protest entered by the manufacturers on the olaim of 10 per cent reduction would not stand. The manufacturers first entered the protest September 25th, after the conference was held with the work men, and has been entered at every payday. The condition it implied was to the effect that the reduction of wages would not go into effect until November 20th, The only pOint of dffference was in our ohiecf-