Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-05-23
WHEELING, W. VA, TUESDAY, NAY %. 1899.
BOILING SCALE ON NEW BASE
Minimum of SIS a Ton and a rs Per
Cent Advance All Around.

| SOut AOtduG0 Hi dlUUuus
PUSHING THE WORK ALONG-THE
| AMALGAMATED ASSOCIATION
| CONVENTION WILL TRY TO GET
THROUGH THIS WEEK = THE
WAGE SCALES STILL UNDER
CONSIDERATION u NIGHT SEo-
| SIONS MAY BE HELD.
Detroit, Mich. May 22-Work on
the wage scale was resumed when the
delegates to the National Amalgamated
| Association convention went into ses-
| sion at 8 o'clock this morning. The
| business of the convention will be
hurried along now in order that the
| work may be finished by the end of the
! week. To this end a delegate intro
| duced resolution to-day asking that
| two night sessions be held this week
| and it is probable that the business of
| the convention may be wound up by
Saturday, although it is possible that
it may last until next week.
| The pudding scale has been thor
oughly discussed as we'll as that for
scraping and busheling and knobbling
| Work on the scales involving the heat
| ing of slabs and shingling AS well as
| that of bar and twelve inch mills, now
occupies the attention of the delegates,
| and all this will be completed in time
for the conference with the bar iron
manufacturers about the middle of the
| week.
| Based on the one and three-tenths
rate for boiling, which means a mini
mum Of five dollars a ton, the scale
will show a twenty-five per cent adj
vance all around. The provisions Of
the boiling scale will be as follows:
Single furnaces, not more than $50
pounds per heat; double furnaces, not
! more than LOO pounds per heat:
| Siemen's furnaces, not more than
| 1850 pounds per heat; double
| furnaces, not more than 1900 pounds
| per heat; and it is understood that two
weeks work shall be averaged.
| In order to insure uniformity of iron
in boiling furnaces, and avoid the in
creasing custom OF running in strong
| for common iron, thus increasing the
hours and work Of the boilers, the limit
of time for each heat shall be as fol-
lows: For single furnace, l hour and
IS minutes; for doublet furnace, hour
and so minutes: for Siemen's furnace,
l hour and So minutes; and for
| double double furnace, 2 hours. The
| time shall be reckoned from the time
| the door is dropped after charging, I'M
| til the heat is ready to draw, and acct
dents and unavoidable detentions are
not to be reckoned in. When a ma
| jority of the furnaces in any mill re-
| Quire more than the time specified to
make their heats, due notice shall be
| given to the boss, in accordance with
article TO of the constitution. BY the
word majority" is meant a majority
of the furnaces working hard iron, in
ferior coal, which increases the work
ing time beyond that specified above.
| shall be considered a grievance.
One dollar per ton extra for dephos-
phorized iron.
Where Bessemer pig iron is worked
alone, 81 per ton extra shall be paid.
One dollar per ton extra for all cast
ings and runners over rs pounds in one
piece, and for all scrap pig metal, %
| pounds and under, when worked alone.
One dollar per ton extra for hot ore
fix.
| For cast iron, swarth worked on GIN
| der bottom the price TO be seven
| eighths the price of boiling.
For wrought iron turnings, worked
on cinder bottom, 1925 per ton; the
price for working turnings to advance
and decline in the same proportion as
| the boilers scale.
Busheling on cinder bottom to be
| one-half the price paid per ton for boil
ing
Fifty cents per ton extra for all metal
boiled, also for swarth and turnings
| worked on hot cinder fix.
For all light scrap worked alone in
a boiling furnace, the same price shall
be paid as that for working wrought
iron turns: this to cover hoop No. 10,
and lighter, wire No. 5. and lighter,
sheet, and what is known as Norway
/ scrap; this scrap to be cut firm eight
TO ten inches in length for charging.
That the puddlers and boilers be paid
for all blooms and sliders, equivalent
to 400 pounds. where the charge is 500
pounds per heat, when it is no fault OF
the boiler.
I Where pot metal or stove plate is
worked alone or mixed. so cents per
ton extra shall be paid, but if stove
plate or pot metal TO the extent Of 100
pounds or less is worked with pig met
al, no extra shall be paid.
When mixed material is worked.
which is not provided for by the scale.
the mean price between the prices OF
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