Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-07-06

PITTSBURG, Pa, July 5.-Another
conference on the tin plate workers
wage scale has been arranged. 1t will
be held in Chicago on Friday, July Z,
by committees of the Amalgamated AS
ISOLATION and the American Tin Plate
Company.
At the conference held in June the
workers demanded an advance of 20
per cent, while the manufacturers COM
mittee refused to grant more than IL
per cent, the amount given the skilled
workmen in the sheet mills. No agree
ment was reached, as the workers COM
mittee was acting under Instructions
from the convention and had no au-
thority to make any concessions.
At the close of the conference Secre-
tary John Williams, of the Amalgamat-
ed Association, SEN out circulars to
the tin plate workers lodges, explain
ing the situation. Meetings were hello
and the results were mailed to head
quarters, and received this morning.
The committee has been granted dis
c%retionary power, but it is urged to in
sist on the original demand for an adj
vance of 20 per cent.
The failure to agree on a wage scale
resulted in the closing of all the tin
plate plants in the country on July l,
throwing fully $4,000 workers idle. o.
this number about $4,000 are skilled
men, and belong to the Amalgamated
Association. The majority of the 9th
ers are tin house men and are members
of the International Tin Plate Work.
ers' Protective Association. They pre-
scented a scale which was signed, and
gives the workers an advance that aver
ages probably 20 per cent. They are
dependent, however, on the skilled
workmen, and will remain idle until
the wage scale for the skilled men is
agree to.
There seems to be no doubt that a
settlement will be reached at the COM
ing conference, and that all the fac
tories in the country will be in opera
ton again next Monday.
Vice President William S. Collier, of
the ~Amalgamated Association, said to-
day that he is confident that the scale
will be settled this week, and that the
workers demand for an advance of 20
per cent will be granted.
The scale signed by the Union Steel
Company, of Alexandria, Ind, was re-
ceived at Amalgamated Association
headquarters this morning. There are
but few mills outside of the Pittsburg
district to be heard from.
The strike is still on at Spang, Chal-
FAINT & Co.'S mills, at Etna. Three
scrap furnaces are being operated. The
men are apparently determined they
will not work until the scale has been
signed, and the firm seems determined
not to operate its works under the
Amalgamated Association rules. Some
of the striking puddlers went to work
at the Lockhart Iron and Steel Com
pany's mill at McKee's Rocks this
morning.
The situation at the plant of Moor
head Bro. & Co. is unchanged. The
mill is in operation as usual with non
union colored men.
The striking roughers at Jones &
L%aughlin's are still out. No. 2 bar mill
was put in operation this morning, a
number of laborers having taken the
places of the strikers.
The South Eighth street plant of the
Oliver Wire Company resumed opera
tons this morning after a shutdown,
which lasted over a month. The shut
down was for repairs and stock taking.
The proposed strike at the Homestead
plant of the Carnegie Steel Company
has been abandoned. AT a meeting of
the local lodge at Homestead last night
it was decided that the present is an
inopportune time to strike. The work
of strengthening the organization will
continue.