The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-09-25
WAGE SCALE
SETTLEMENT
SATISFACTORY
To the Iron and Steel Workers, Al
though They Had Hoped TO
DO Slightly Better
SECRETARY WILLIAMS TALKS
OF the Result of the Cincinnati Con.
ference-Details Of the
Settlement.

The settlement OF the iron wage scale
at Cincinnati on compromise basa,
white It does not meet with the hearty
approval OF the members OF the Amal-
gamated Association. is accepted us
raore satisfactory than strike. Secre-
tary John Williams returned from
Cincinnati Monday morning, and went
at once TO headquarters. President
7. ]. Shaffer stopped at Columbus on
business connected with the organiza-
ton. The manufacturers Insisted on
one-cent bar Iron rate. but the pud-
ding rate will be the same as when
bar iron was selling. IL cents Is really
the base.
Mr.. Williams said it was the best set
tlement that could have possibly been
made without going Into 4 bitter fight.
says the hronicle-Telegraph With
good prices for bar mon. of which there
is every Indication from the present
condition OF the market. the Iron work !.
ers will fare as well us they would have
done ut the scale proposed. There is
certainty that there will be no re-
ductlon for this and next month. rs n
S. rate for pudding was agreed upon
for these two months The rate for
November and December will be deter.
mined by the prices received for bar
iron sold from now until November /.
The long idleness of the mills has rr-
duced bar Iron stocks to a minimum.
and there Is stiff demand. At pres
cnt, Ia cents pound and more is re-
ported rs the price being received by
independent concerns that have been IN
operation for the past rwo months. l:
these prices can be maintained there
will be no cut In wages this year. The
new scale for pudding is as follows;
When bar iron sales for two months
average cent pound. 81 IS 4 ton; IL
cent. 81 IS: IL cents. 81 IS; ~ cents,
81 s7is; Ii cents. IS; Is cents, S. IS: l.5
cents, IS so; IL cents. s. G2i4: is cents,
IS IS; 10 cents. IS S7,z; cents. SC.
The finIshers suffer more than the
puddlers by the new scale. The reduce
ton for the puddlcr is per cent from
the base Of last year. and the reduction
for the iinisher Is per cent. The base
of the new scale is about 20 per cent
higher for the puddlers than the scale
which expired on June 30 OF last year.
The heavy advance granted by the
manufacturers last year. 1t is contend-
ed, was due to the exceptionally pros
porous year in the iron business. They
argued that with the slump in trade
caused by the action OF the American
Steel and Wire Company last spring.
the reduction asked is an extremely
modest one,
Before the close OF the week all the
union mills owned by the Republic Iron
and Steel Company and the American
Steel Hoop Company that are under
the Jurisdiction OF the Amalgamated
association will be in full operation un-
der the provisions OF the new scale. The
independent concerns that have been
paying the price demanded by the AS
ISOLATION Will be given the benefit CT
the compromise scale. Fully 2O.0uO
members OF the Amalgamated Associa-
ton are employed In the rolling mills
and are effected by this scale, and prob
ably $4,000 or 10000 more are benefited
by the settlement of the wage ques-
ton.
The only dIsafrectIon over the settle
ment that is at present anticipated will
come from about 1000 Analgamatcd
members who have been receiving the
high rates since last July, when about
twenty concerns signed the scale. They
paid the puddlers Sc leIE a ton for July
and August. and since that time have
been paying S.. the offer OF the Amalga-
mated Association at the last Detroit
conference. a strike in the combina-
ton plants ut this time would have
been OF great benefit 10 the independent
manufacturers. The combinations say
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