The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-05-26
LABOR NOTES

The wages of $4,000 OF the employees
Of the Carnegie Steel company have
been increased 10 per cent
Kerr Hardle. the labor reformer. be-
lieves that the days or trade unions
are past and that an Industrial COM
monwealth will shortly be evolved.
The National Tube works Of McKees-
port. Pa, have granted their 1000 en-
ployes an increase in wages OF 10 per
cent. The company's pipe works are
the largest in the world. and II Is be-
lieved this increase in wages will re-
suit in a material increase In the price
Of pipe.
Something like a boom is reported In
the gold region in the North Carolina
foothills. The field Is like that OF
Georgia's.
The Iron Age says: The general adj
vance in blast furnace wages in the
principal western districts puts all
chance OF lower Bessener pig iron at
rest for the present. The steel market
has been quite excited. advancing $3.50
and s16.75, Pittsburg. under moderate
sales, but with lively inquiry. Sheet
bars. which some time since command
ed an advance Of about 81 per ton over
blllets. are so scarce that an advance
OF 81 is now obtained. In wire rods,
which are quoted 81. Pittsburg, the
most interesting event is the closing
OF conversion contracts covering $4,000
mill and a Cleveland rod mill Heavy
sales of skelp, aggregating $4,000, 900
tons. are reported from Pittsburg."
The Iron Trade Review says: Prob
ably no week Of the year has done more
to establish a new basis for iron and
steel prices than the one just ending.
The advance OF blast furnace wages In
the Shenango valley nearly to the 1892
level with a 10 per cent increase at
several Pittsburg furnaces coming In
it's train, was followed by the sensa-
tional stroke of the Carnegie Steel COM
pany in adding 10 per cent to the pay
of all its men. though its contract with
them would continue through the year
the scale fixed Jan. 1. The pace thus
set will hardly be disregarded else
where and added labor cost will be
made up by higher prices on products.
In spite OF repeated assertions that adj
vances in price could only be sus-
tained by marked expansion In the
demand for finished product. the mar
ket has been demonstrating week by
week that the lifting power is being
applied at the other end
Secretary Groves Of the Illinois State
Federation Of Labor. yesterday re-
ceived a letter from Vice President
Stevenson accepting the invitation to
address the labor people Of the city
July 4. in Sharpshooters' Park II Is
the belief OF Mr.. Groves that a similar
letter will be received from Governor
Mckinley OF Ohio.
The coal operators of Pfttsburg, Kan.
have established a uniform price in the
district for the mining OF coal, all OF
them. IL is said, agreeing to pay the
scale. 1t is to be STA cents in summer
and IS cents in winter for screened
lump and so cents for mine run the
year around. Notices OF the new scale
will be posted at all mines, and the
price will be adopted June 1, when
contracts will be signed by the miners
for one and two years. 1t is said that
the new price is generally satisfactory
to the miners.
one hundred coal miners are on a
strike at Rutland. ILL.,,
Two hundred miners have been dis
charged from Buffalo group, Negawnee,
Mich, leaving only 100 remaining
These properties have an annual ca
pacity OF 500, 900 tons.