The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-07-01
FACES TO THE SUNRISE
$4,000 IRON-WORKERS GET SUNSTRUCk
IN THE NECK.
Mills Employing this Number Of Men Shut
Down Yesterday Trying to
Lower Wages.

Youngstown. O., June 30.-Every mill
in the United States, whose wage scales
are under the jurisdiction of the Anal
gamated Association of Iron, Steel and
Tin Workers, will shut down tonight
These mills altogether employ 25,0O0
men, who are members of the Amalga-
mated Association, besides those who are
not. The general shutdown will take
place on account of the failure of the
Amalgamated Association scale commit
tee and the manufacturers to agree on
a pudding rate at the conference held
here to-day. They were in session all
the afternoon and did not get any
further than the pudding rate. The
committee held out for $3.50 a ton for
pudding and the manufacturers refuse
to bulge from their stand for S4.00. An
adjournment sine die was finally taken,
each side olet the other know when
it had experienced change Of heart.
All the visiting manufacturers and dele
gates left at once for their homes.
Just before he left, President Garland
of the Amalgamated Association, re-
| ceived kilograms saying the new scale
had been adopted by the Newport Rolling
Mill Company, of Newport, Ky, and the
Peninsular Car Company of Detroit
PROTRACTED WAGE STRUGGLE.
Pittsburg, Pa, June 30.-The wage
struggle this year promises to be pro-
tracted because of the wide divergence
between workers and manufacturers.
The steel, sheet iron, tin plate, flint
glass, bottle blowers and window glass
workers are all interested in the out
Of fba far ha1I
The manufacturers have been late to
call for meetings and reluctant to sign
when approached for a settlement.
The suspension of work in the steel
mills with the addition of the coming big
coal strike, will be the biggest suspen-
sion of business at one time for years
past.
The tin plate manufacturers will hold
another conference with the workers
wage committee Saturday. Every tin
plate plant in the country closed down
this evening, throwing about 1900 peo-
pie out Of work. The shrewdest guesser
cannot tell when the tin plate scale will
be signed.
~ There will be trouble when the flint
glass workers seek to have the chimney
scale signed. The manufacturers want
a decided reduction and are after it hard
The stubborn fights put up by the flint
glass workers are proverbial and a long
shut down is anticipated in this indus
try. No trouble is anticipated over the
remaining glass scales.
100000 MEN TO GO THIS WEEK.
There is no telling when the window
glass scale will be settled and the manu-
| facturers and workers are in no hurry
to come together for a conference.
About $4,000 men are involved in this
scale.
The Amalgamated Association received
some encoura cement to-day in the shape
of signed scales. The New Port Rolling
Mill Company of New Port, KY, the De-
troit Steel and Spring Company of De-
troit and the Union Steel Company of
Alexandria, Ind, have signed the scale
and will continue at work. These sig
natures have given the Amalgamated
Association considerable backbone.
1t was reported ON the streets to-day
that Jones and Laughlins demanded a re-
duction of wages of the Amalgamated
Association averaging % per cent. This
is scarcely credible.
If the coal miners strike materializes
on Saturday the number of workmen
out of employment this week by reason
of these labor agitations will reach the
high figure of at least 100000 men.