Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-05-25
THEIR WORK ALMOST DONE
Amalgamatei Delegates Have Nearly
Completed Wage Scales

completed wage Scales
THE SHEET MILL RATES - AN
AVERAGE ADVANCE OF ABOUT
ELEVEN PER CENT. HAS BEEN
MADE CONFERENCES WITT
THE MANUFACTURERS SOON
WILL BE HELD-SEVERAL CIT
les AFTER THE NEXT CONVEN-
TION.
Detroit, Mich, May 24.-From pres
ent indications the scale work of the
Amalgamated Association convention
will be finished by tomorrow and the
other work to come before the dele
gates will occupy day or two longer.
The tin plate scale, the last to be
considered by the delegates, was
taken up at yesterday afternoons aes-
sion, and while no business session
was held this morning, it is expected
that this work will be completed this
afternoon and tomorrow.
Secretary John Williams announced
this morning that the bar iron manu-
facturers will be in Detroit for con-
ference Thursday afternoon. He also
stated that the conference with the
sheet manufacturers will take place in
this city. No definite arrangements
had been made up to this morning in
regard to the tin plate conference, but
it is likely that the manufacturers will
come here to settle this part of the
scale. The names of the men who
have been appointed by President
Shaffer on the bar iron conference will
be announced tomorrow.
An average of about IL per cent. of
advance over last years sheet mill
scale is demanded. The preamble,
which fixes the basic ratio of the SELL
ing price of sheets and the minimum
wage rates, remains the same. The
new rates for rolling iron per ton on
the various gauges are: No. 8 and
heavier, $3.50; Nos. 9 to II, 81; Nos.
II to IA, $3.50; Nos. Is to II, $3.50;
Nos. Is to q, $6.75; Nos. p to "a, IS;
Nos. % to Sc, 1920; No. 27, $40; No.
2S, $10.65; No. 20, s11.15; No. 80, $12.
Prices for rolling steel, beginning at
gauge Nos, % to "a as the base, at a
rate of $3.50 a ton, are as follows: Nos.
Is to &c, $1012; Nos. 27, $11; No. rs,
Sill; No. 20, $12.30; and No. 80,
1920. The balance of the scale re-
mains the same, with this proviso:
"These rates are to apply only to job
bling mills rolling No. Is and heavier
over 40 inches in width
The foot notes remain the same with
these additions: Clause No. %, The
company agrees to furnish on all sheet
and jobbing mills pair of scales suit
able to weigh sheet par, said scales to
be placed convenient to said mill"
Clause No. 24-That the roller be paid
81 for changing rolls. This latter
clause is of considerable Importance.
The rates for sheet mill day hands
are as follows on single mill: Pair
heating per day, $685. matching, $3.50.
On double mill: Pair heating, per day,
$3.50; doubling, s201; matching, s212.
Large jobbing mills, when working
over 50-inch rolls: Pair heater, per
day, S2.5S; to Watchers. each, $3.50;
second catcher, $3.50. Small double
mill: Pair heating, per day, s212;
matching. s1S4; doubling, SLIP. The
foot notes remain the same with these
exceptions: To clause u there is add
ed: "a single slab shall be equivalent
to one pair of single sheet iron, and a
double slab shall be equivalent to one
pair of double sheet iron" Clause 16
has been simplified to read: 1T is
agreed that no more than three
charges in the classification of any
sheet or jobbing mill can be made dur
ing the scale year"
The choice of a convention city for
1900 is one of the questions that will
have to be settled by the delegates this
week. Several cities have put them
selves in the field for the convention,
and it is possible that there may be
more later on. All OF the men like De-
troit, and think that as a convention
city it has few, if any, equals. But
they feel that. since Detroit has had
the gathering three times during the
last four years. some other city is en-
titled to it next year. Early in the
present convention Cleveland pre-
scented an invitation, asking that the
Forest City be selected this year. That
city had the convention in 1894 and
1895, and the same feeling might pre-
vail among some OF the delegates as
that which has already been stated in
the case of Detroit. Some of the mem
bers Of the convention have expressed
themselves in favor of taking the CON
vention farther west, and have sug-
gested Chicago and Indianapolis. NJ
Gle people have expressed a desire for
it, but some doubt was expressed as to
the ability of that town 10 entertain
such large gathering as that of the
Aualgamated Association, and ii is
said that the Muncie delegates would
be willing tn see the convention on n