Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-06-28

THE ADVANCE PROPOSED BY
THE MANUFACTURERS WAS
ELEVEN PER CENT, WHICH IS
THE SAME AS GIVEN TO SHEET
WORKERS-AN ESTIMATE OF
WHAT THE WORKERS WILL
LOSE BY THE SHUTTING DOWN
SHOWS 1T WILL BE OVER A
MILLION DOLLARS ~ RUSSIAN
GOVERNMENT MAKING BIG
PURCHASES.
PITTSBURG. Pa, Jane 2-Secretary
John Williams, of the Amalgamated Assoc
citation, has notified all lodges of the fail
ure to agree on the tin pate scale. The
iooges are asked to meet and again con-
slider the scale. 1t was learned to-day, al
though the officials decline TO give any
| Information on the subject, that the man
ufacturers offered an advance of ABOUT
II per cent. This is in proportion with
The advance granted the sheet mill work
| ers.
Mr.. Williams does not expect to receive
/ replies from the various lodges before next
week. Special meetings will lave to be
held in order to decide upon what action
shall be taken. 1t will be at least two
weeks before another conference can be
arranged. The closing of all the mills
| said Mr.. Williams to a reporter, cannot
be called a strike or a lockout. The men
will be merely idle pending a settlement
| of the wage scale"
The delay in arranging the tin plate scale
will result in serious loss to the workers.
A low estimate as to the loss in wages, if
a settlement is reached within two weeks,
is over $1,000, COG.
a man employed in one of the local tin
plate mills, in speaking of the loss to the
workers, said: Fully $1,000 persons will be
| thrown idle. They average at least 81 a
day. If the suspension continues for two
weeks, or u working days-and the scale
| cannot be settled in less time-the loss in
wages viii be 81, 20o,0 900. 1t will be greater
than that, but L am putting it down low.
Our officials claim that the failure to agree
is due to misleading reports sent TO two
Pittsburg newspapers from Detroit during
the national convention"
Second Vice President W. T. Graham, of
the American Tin Plate Company. repre-
sented it in the conference last week. He
was interviewed in Chicago to-day.
The workers committee came mere I'M
der instructions to ask for 20 per cent.
increase, and as we understand it, they
had no authority to accept anything else"
said Mr.. Graham. The members of the
committee were here several days. We
submitted a compromise proposition. but
the committee said they had no authority
to accept it, and asked to submit it to
the different lodges. Our proposition was
for an advance equivalent to that paid
by the manufacturers of iron and steel
sheets, approximately IL per cent. AS the
contract with the Association lasts only
until June 80, there was nothing left for
US to do but shut down until the COM
pany's proposition had been submitted to
the various lodges of the Amalgamated
Association. There is no talk of a strike"
The various mills of the great concern,
the capitalization of which is $50, 000, 900.
are scattered over the eastern and middle
States, as follows:
Bridgeport, O., s: Elwood, Ind, 20; Ander-
son, Ind, 8; Atlanta, Ind, 9; Irondale, O.,
4; Lisbon, O., 6; Blairsville, Pa, 2; Cleve-
land, o., 3; Cannonsburg, Pa, 3; Cincin-
natl, O., A; Cumberland, Nd, 5; Ellwood
City. Pa, 5; Niles, o., 6; Joliet, H., 4; West
Newton, Pa, 2; Connellsv.lle, Pa. 6; Mid
dletown, Ind, 6; Johnstown, Pa, 2; Wheel
ing, W. Va, 10; Martins Ferry, O., Ii;
Philadelphia, Pa, 6; P~ittsburg, Pa. IA;
Montpelier, Ind. 6; Gas City, Ind, s; Cam
bridge, o., 6; Monessen, Pa, s; New Cas-
tie, Pa, 70; New Castle, Pa, 6; Remington
Station, Pa, 2: New Kensington. Pa, g.;
New K~ensington, Pa, 6; Canal Dover, o.,
4; New Castle. Pa, 80; Brooklyn, N. Y, 8,
Pittsburg, Pa. S; Demmier, Pa, IL; Wash
ington, Pa, 4.
For the past eight or ten months there
have been in the United States several
agents of the Russian government, exam
min testing and witnessing the process
of manufacture of steel rails, boiler tubes,
piping and machinery Of every descrip-
ton, as we'll as making inquiries into the
possibility OF rapidly fulfilling orders for
these goods and for small arms and light
field ordnance. One of these agents has
made his headquarters in Philadelphia
since before last November, another has his
office in Chicago, one is stationed at
Washington, others are in New York. All
make frequent visits 10 Philadelphia,
Pittsburg, Schenectady, Hartford. Balti-
more and other cities where the goods they
require are manufactured.
AS told several days ago, a contract
was made with the Carnegie Steel Com
pany for 1So,e0 tons of steel rails. Ii has
since been learned that the price is SIS
a ton, and the order is TO be completed
within 26 months. The policy of the Car
negie Company is to say nothing as to the
contracts received.
This deal mas been managed in mastery
fashion by Chief Engineer v. a. Cojevni-
koff, OF the Trans-Siberian railway, VINO
signed the contract for the Imperial Rus
sian government last week. MIR. Cejevni-
koff has been making quiet trips 10 and
from Pittsburg, New York and Philadei-
phia, meanwhile making his headquarters
III the latter city.
Some idea OF the immense Importance of
this large order for rails may be cleaned
from the fact hat these rails. which the
Carnegie Company has contracted 10 de-
liver in 26 months, are sufficient TO lay
between 1000 and 5000 miles of road. This
information comes right upon the news
that Russia is now endeavoring TO per-
suade China TO extend CONCESSIONS in Chi
ma and Manehuria so as to connect the
Manchurian railroad directly with Pekin.
while another proposed line runs from
/ Mukden TO Shan-nas-guan making a craar