Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-05-10

The demands Of the steel plant work.
men in the employ of the Wheeling
Steel and Iron Company and the Riv-
erside Company, at Benwood. were con-
ceded yesterday, and last evening
everybody was happy.
The management of both concerns
were quick to recognize the business Of
the claims made upon them by their
workmen, and the concession in the
shape Of an increase in wages asked for
was granted with a promptness un-
usual in these days of disputes between
labor and capital.
The conference which had been ar
ranged for between the representatives
of the Wheeling Steel and Iron Com
pany and the committee of their men
took place at the Company's office at
ten o'clock yesterday morning, an hour
/ later than heretofore announced. 1t
did not take long to reach an amicable
| settlement of the matter, and an agree
ment was entered into granting an ad-
vance of ten per cent in wages in the
skelp department, to take effect May
/ 18th. This was entirely satisfactory
to the men. and work will be resumed
within a few days. This advance wipes
/ out the reduction of ten per cent.
made some six or moro months ago.
At the Riverside plant, where the
men had not quit work, although max
ing the same request for an advance,
the concession was promptly acceeded
, to- and work will be continued right
along in all departments. General
Manager f. J. Hearne, when asked
about the situation yesterday, said:
There Will be no strike at the River
| side. We never have any trouble with
our men. We understand them, and
they understand uA There will be no
! trouble whatever
As a natural result Of the settlement
reached, the steel workers were feeling
very happy last night, and work will
proceed at both plants with unusual
energy.
! In granting the demands Of their
men. the BenwoOd Companies are but
| following in the footsteps of other iron
and steel manufacturing concerns in
the Pittsburg district. The National
| Tube Works has granted an advace to
! 1000 men, in addition to the list here
| tOfore published, while the men are
! pushing the strike at all other points.
| The Akron Iron and Steel Company,
whose plant has been idle for a year,
| has forwarded it's acceptance OF the
scale to President Garland, Of the
Amalgamated Association, and at the
| Clinton mill, the only one in Pitts
| burg where the men are not receiving
! or striking for the scale, the men
were expected 10 come out last night.
! The employees of the MonOngahela fur
mace, at Pittsburg, and the men at the
/ Stewart and Sharon furnaces, at Shar-
on, Pa, have received the advance
asked for The big strike at the New
! Castle, Pa wire nail works has been
settled on the terms of the men, and
concessions by other plants where the
men are asking the advance are look
ed for to-day.
Upon the general question of the ad-
vance in wages of iron and steel work.
ers, yesterdays Pittsburg Dispatch
said
THE Amalgamated Association of
Tin, Iron and Steel Workers, and the
Merchant Bar Iron Manufacturers
/ National Association, have entered in
to a combination TO secure for the iron
workers of the country better rates of
wages, and for the manufacturers fair
competitive conditions against the
mill operators in the Pittsburg dis
trict, who have been working their
or A
ton of manufacturers has been form
ed, principally outside the Pittsburg
district, to secure remunerative prices
for iron products, and incidentally TO
give the workmen better wages than
now paid, which are admittedly TOO
low
AT the Youngstown conference be-
tween the Amalgamated Association
and the Valley Iron Manufacturers, an
agreement was entered into by the
Merchant Bar Iron Association and
the Amalgamated Association to ad-
vance the present pudding scale 10
per cent, provided the nOn-uniOn and
under scale mills of this city could be
forced to pay the same.
The strike in six mills of this city
at the present time is the result of the
agreement. The Pittsburg puddlers
are not only striking for present scale
rates, but, if successful, will make. it
possible for all the iron men in the
country to secure an advance of 10 per
cent. on the 81 pudding rate.
"Oficials of the Amalgamated AS
sOciatiOn yesterday admitted that such
an agreement was made with the man
ufacturers. and the present movement
is the first step toward carrying the
plan into execution. The manufac-
turers may be willing to grant even a
much higher advance IL they can Sc
cure a uniformity Of labor cost
throughout the country The Cleve-
land convention will probably propose
a pudding rate of S4.75 per ton. and
possibly s.. The fnishers are to be
advanced also but not in proportion 10
the puddlers Should the plan sue
ceed upward Of $4,000 iron workers
will be benefited"
THE WEATHER.