Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-09-24
New Scale . Compromise Neither
Side Got All 1t Wanted
Both Satisfied.
Uncertain Condition Of Iron Market
Prevented Signing Of Wage
Scale on July |.

Cincinnati, Sept. 24-Sixty thousand
iron and steel mill men, who have been
idle three months, will go back to work |
at once as result Of the signing of the
yearly wage scale agreement in this
city.
The conferees of the Amalgamatedl
Association of Iron and Steel Workers
and of the manufacturers usually sign
the wage scale agreement for the en-
suing year on July 1. The past season
the condition of the iron market has
been so unsettled that an agreement
could not be reached as readily as
usual.
Five conferences have been held prior
To the one just closed IN this city at
New York, Detroit indianapolis and
,, Youngstown, all without result. The
Iconferees met here Wednesday of last
week and have been steadily at work
since then until the final adjournment
early yesterday morning.
Saturday night they determined to Sit
| until they came to terms or until 1t be-
came clear they could not agree. An
hagreement was reached in time for the
/ fact to be made known in the Sunday
morning papers, but the compact was
not signed nor the details made public
unit, the conference adjourned at $50
la. IN.
The new scale is compromise.
Neither side got just what it asked for.
but both are fairly we'll satisfied, and
leager to get back to business.
i Since the mills shut down on June 80,
i trade conditions have not been good,
lbut row they are improving, and both
len,ployers and employees desire to get
4 the benefit. AS soon as the agreement
Twas signed yesterday morning tele-
4 grams We're sent out to the mills every
s where before the conferees breakfasted
bordering the fires lighted Immediately
Some mills will resume work today anc
Iothers as quickly as they can be got II
readiness.
President Shaffer. Secretary William.
and others remained to arrange some
ldetails with Commissioner Mutt. ant
l.they retired about o'clock in the morn
: ling, but the others did their sleeping OF
3 1.-The trains en- route home for the gen
/, Ieral resumption today.
81 Among the mills ordered started ar
2 thGse of the American Steel Hoo
Colnlseny at Girard. Youngstown, War
Iren. Pomeroy, and Greenville and OF tn
Republic Iron and Steel Company a
Youngstown, Ironton, Terre Haute. Biz
lmingham. Muncie, Franklin. Marion
!. Moline, New Albany, Minneapolis, Gov
|ington, Brazil, Ind. Springfield, Ill
Z land Alexandria, Ind.
|, The character Of the agreement va
II defined in joint statement given on
. by President Shaffer and COMMISSIONS
~ Mutt, as follows:
t. THE rate for boiling is s4.75 tor
il based upon a 1-cent card rate, with III
= Isame basis running up to 2-10 for tn
6 card rate, or sl.eO. But the price f.
a boiling for September and October sha
III he IS / ton, based on a card rate
l. II 4-10 cents.
* Muck boiling shall be#one- seventh I
ltIthe price paid for boiling.
FL ..Busheling on sad bottom shall |
s2.09 on a 1-cent card rate, With II
Y same base running up TO 1910 ca,
,e The following scale was fixed for Il
go finishing mills:
u son bar mills the price to be paid
AT the same as last year. with card ia
n of IA cents graded down to a Ice
s, icard.
IN "On guide Cten-inch and hoop mill
Ns the base and rates apply as they do (
Up the bar and the twelve-inch mills"
I'd The AInalgamated men claimed th
ms companies could and did. in effect, raj
Is. Tor lower the prices at will as produce
M jof 80 per cent Of the manufactured ir
ok Iof the country. This the manufacture
denied most emphatically While I
ny conferences were marked with gre
X earnestness on both sides, still patien
ng and moderation characterized the d
ny bates
n There was one marked exception
this. 1t leaked out last night for I
y. first time that during one of the CONF
hd ences President II. j. Shaffer. Of I
~ Amalgamated Association, declared
ne intention of resigning on the spot. II
" " was because one of the manufacture
me lad declared somewhat heatediy II
President Shaffer was the obstacle
" the way of a settlement.
ot.' President Skaters threat of resigni
.,s caused CONSERVATION TO both sides,
1t would have overthrown eNeryth
already accomplished in the way Of
~ settlement. and would also have pro-
-, bly, caused an abrupt termination of
!, conference. 1t is the opinion of lead
!, - members 81 the Amalgamated 7
! President shaffer will resign at no {
~ ;ant date as a result Of this episode {
a., the final ruling at the joint conferer
adj m cpBpT Aprup1SH0p KEAl
Dubuque Priests Arrange RECEIPT
for New Head of That See.
Dubuque, Sept. 24.-Arrangements