The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1900-09-25
AGREEMENT REACHED.
Iron Mills Throughout the Middle
States to Start Up.
Committees OF AmaIgamated AssOci-
alton of Iron and Steel Workers
and Manufacturers Sign Scale.


Cincinnati, Sept. Pat $3.50 o'clock
Sunday morning the conference COM
mittees of the Amalgamated Associa-
ton of Iron and Steel workers and
of the manufacturers signed the wage
scale that will be effective until July
1, 1901.
1t is what is known as the yearly
scale, which begins always with July
Owing to the unusual fluctuations of
the market the new scale had not
been signed when the mills shut
down June 80 and the conditions have
been unfavorable ever since June, so
that the mills have been idle for al
most three months. As. soon as the
scale was signed Sunday morning
messages were sent in every direc-
ton before the conferees breakfasted
ordering the tires built at once. Some
mills will start MolNlay morning and
others as soon as plssible. This de-
cision means employment to over co.
600 workingmen who have been idle
since June, awaiting the adjustment
of their wage scale. Meantime the
wage conference committee of the
Amalgamated Association of Iron and
Steel workers has had five different
conferences with the manufacturers.
They have been in conference since
Wednesday and determined Saturday
night to sit till they got together or
agreed to disagree. umle neither
side got what they wanted, yet both
sides felt relieved when the scale was
signed after an all night session and
most of the conferees left without
sleep SO as 10 be at the mills Monday
morning. President Shaffer, Secre-
tary Williams and others remained
to arrange some details. with Com
missioner Mutt and they retired about
o'clock Sunday morning, but the
others did their sleeping on the trains
en- route home for the general re-
sumption Monday. The reasons for
the delay in adjusting the wage scale
as well as for the frequent prolonged
conferences are due to the slump in
the market and the fluctuations dur
ing the past year from the highest
to the lowest prices. The workers
wanted SIS per ton based on a one
and four-tenths card rate. The man.
ufacturers offered $3.50 per ton on a
one cent card rate for boiling and
the differences were in about the
same proportion in other lines.
President Shaffer and Commission
er Mutt jointly gave out the follow
ing official statement Sunday:
The rate for boiling is $4.75 per ton,
based upon one-cent card rate, with
the same basis running up to one and
two-tenths for the card rate, or 81. 20.
But the price for boiling for Septem-
Der and October shall be So per ton;
based upon a card rate of one and
four-tenths cents.
Muck rolling shall be one-seventh
of the price paid for. boiling.
Busheling on sand bottom shall be
$500 on a one-cent card rate, with
the same base running up to one and
two-tenths. card rate.
The following scale was fixed for
the finishing mills:
On bar mills the price to be paid
is the same as last year, with a card
rate of one and four-tenths cents,
graded down to a one-cent card
On guide (ten-inch and hoop mills)
the base and rates apply as they do
on the bar and the twelve-inch mills.
Among the mills ordered started
are, those of the American Steel Hoop
Co. at Girard, Youngstown, Warren,
POmeroy and Greenville, and of the
Republic Iron and Steel Co. at
Youngstown, Terre Haute, Birming-
ham, Muncie, Franklin, Marion, Mo-
line, New Albany, Minneapolis, Cow
ington, KY, Brazil, Ind, Springfield,
H., and Alexandria, Ind.