Evening journal., 1900-09-24
Three Months Of Absolute
IdIcneSS is Ended
FIRES WE'RE BUILT At ONCE
Messages Sent Ont in All Directions
Telling ROTkingmen Of Their
Good Fortune

Cincinnati, Sept 24.--The conference
committee of the Amalgamated Asso-
citation Of Iron and Steel Workers and
OF the manufacturers at 6:30 o'clock
yesterday morning signed the wage
scale that Will be effective until July,
1901. IL is what is known as the
yearly scale, which takes effect usually
In July. Owing 10 the unusual huc-
tuations OF the market the new scale
had not been signed when the mills
smut down June 30 and the conditions
have been unfavorable ever since, 80
That the mills have been idle for al
most three months.
AS soon as the scale was signed mes
sages were sent in every direction be-
iore the conferrees breakfasted, order
ing the fires built at once Some mills
started this morning and all others
Will start as soon as possible. This do
cision means employment to over co.
600 workingmen who have been idle
since June
In endeavoring to arrive at this
agreement the wage conference COM
mittee of the Amalgamated Associa-
tion of Iron and Steel Workers has had
five different conferences with the
manufacturers, meeting at New York.
Detroit indianapolis and Youngstown,
as well as here. They have been in
conference here since Wednesday, and
determined Saturday night to sit until
they got together or agreed TO disagree.
While neither side got what Il wanted,
yet both sides felt relieved when the
scale was signed, after an all night
session, and most of the conferrees
left without sleep, so as to be at the
mills this morning. President Schaef-
er, Secretary Williams and others re-
mained to arrange some details with
Commissioner Mutt, and they retired
about o'clock yesterday morning, but
the others did their sleeping on the
trains en- route to their homes.
The reasons for the delay In adjust
Ing the wage scale, as we'll as the fire.
quent prolonged conferences, are found
IN the slump in the market and the
fluctuations during the past year from
the highest TO the lowest price The
workers wanted IS per ton based on a
one and folr-tenths card rate. The
manufacturers 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 Schaefer and Commissions
or Mutt jointly gave out the following
official statement yesterday:
The rate for boiling Is S475 per ton,
based upon q one cent card rate. with
the same basis running up to one and
two-tenths for the card rate. or $1.20.
But the price for boiling for September
and October shall be S. per ton, based
on q 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
S2.09 on 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 12-inch mills.
Among the mills ordered started are
those of the American Steel Hoop com
pany at Girard, Youngstown, Warren.
PomerOy and Greenville, and Of the
Republic Iron and Steel company at
Youngstown, Ironton, Terre Haute.
Binghamton, Muncie. Franklin, Mar
ion. Moline, New Albany. Minneapolis.
Coyington, Ky, Brazil, Ind. SPRING
field Ills. and Alexandria. Ind