New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-05-02
THE TIDE OF PROSPERITY.
EMPLOYEES WAGES INCREASED IN MANY
IRON FIRMS.
PENNSYLVANIA LEADS IN THE MOVEMENT
ADVANCES MADE IN OTHER STATES.

Raad,nS Penn May / (SpecaD.-Wfth May
there ia another notable advance In the inous
trial situation in the entire Schuyikil Naliey III
large number of mills second advance IN wages Vi
puddlers takes place on this day which brings 'ne
rate paid to this class OF iron workers to Is ton
This fs the highest In seven years and a part Oh
This time IL was as low 81 so a ton. on the
tiuctuating wages Of puddlers depend at the same
tina an advance or decrease for thousands OF otner
iron workers Puddlers' wages are now on the
Jump and mill hands are correspondinsy nappy.
A second increase for this year In all departments
az the Reading Iron Company Affecting three
thousand hands. took place to-day Ihe raise 10
from TO u per cent. The company announces tha'
II is enabled TO grant the increase by the conu
tions OF business The same company VIII resume
operations at its rolling mill in the northern sec
,ion OF the city, after dleness of ten years. IN
less than two weeks, with four hundred men, az
the same time Il has made plans for the erecuon
Of a forge on adjoining property GOVERNS
block OF ground which will take six months "
build.
At Potts Bros Iron Company at Pottstown pc
ginning to-day the pudders will receive " 10 'oli
A proportionate advance takes effect In other oe-
nartments This is the second increase In sixty
days .. Tho
A similar raise went into enect To-Day a. INV
Glasgow Company's lower plant. IN the same ooi .
ough The Ellis & Lessig Iron and steel COM
pany Of the same place. began paying 70 i's pun
dIers 81 a ton to-day Two weeks ago they were
advanced from So 50 TO 81 rs ton.
The Brooke Iron Company. at Birdsooro. mas al
vanced puddlers TO 50 q ton AT Lebanon inc
thousand or more employees OF the Pennsyivan'a
Bolt and Nut Works and the Lebanon Iron COM
pany received another increase Of 10 per cent, be-
ginning to-day. while the employees OF the Locnlel
Mills. at Harrisburg began today VIII n bs new
we seals in effect the ordinary sborers receive
- cents an hour for their work .
The North Reading foundry of the Reading
Or0n
Wednesday. These works have been IDLE since last
November. Over four hundred hands VIII go 70
work.
Cleveland. Ohio, May lit is estimated that over
.b,rty-fye hundred mechanics OF this city will re-
ceive increased wages dating from to-day. Seven
hundred machine moulders went TO their work this
morning with an advance of 10 per cent. and the
stoveplate noulders receive Ike advance. The
carpenters get 21a cents more an hour, making a
total hour scale Of I'm cents and also benefited
by a universal eight-hour rule The union plumbers
start the m5nth with a straight s-a-day scale,
e per cent advance. and the bricklayers work for
80 cents hour instead Of Is cents as e
fathers union members receive 81 30 day. instead
of &.
Taunton Mass May IAN advance in wages at
mills went into effect to-day The increase places
all hands on practically the same schedule as that
in force before the reduction of February lSo
YOUNGSTOWN. Ohio. May 1.-The Bessemer Iron
Association. composed of all blast furnaces in the
Mahoning and Shenango valleys has decided TO
advance wages of employees 10 per cent, taking
effect to-day. Five thousand employees VIII Do
affected.
, B,rminrham Ala NAV 1 CspeciaD.-To-day the
eloss Iron and Steel Company posted notices an
nouncing another 21s cents advance in coal miners
wages. the third since January l. Similar action
will be taken by the Tennessee Coal Iron and
Railroad Company and 10000 men will be eventu-
ally affected. The Alabama miners have received
Of ton n
uary / They are now receiving an cents ton
the highest wages paid in years, and after eight
months of day work have steady work six
days in the week and no Indications OF anything
else in the entire summer usually dull period.