Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-05-27

INDIANAPOLIS, May 26.-The Anal
gamated convention opened at 9 a. n.
and resumed the discussion on the tin
plate scale. The conference on the
iron scale was held in the Masonic
Temple, and the manufacturers are
represented by j. H. Mutt, w. L.
Simonton, George NJ. Bard and ]. A.
Campbell, of the Republic iron & Steel
Company; w. E. Taylor, American
Steel Hoop Company; Geo. L. Refs, OF
the Federal Steel Company; ]. L.
Leonard, American Car & Foundry
Company, and ]. D. Shields, CONT
mental Iron Company.
This will be only preliminary to the
general conference which will be held
in about two weeks, at which, if there
are no serious objections on the part
of the manufacturers, the new scale
will be finally arranged.
The manufacturers took their de-
parture tonight without having come
to any agreement. The conference
lasted about five hours. According to
the officers OF the association, the diff
ference between the men and the man
ufacturers is small and an agreement
will, they think, be reached at the next
conference.
President Shaffer, on the part of the
iron workers, and j. H. Mutt, secretary
OF the labor bureau of the Republic
Iron & Steel Company, were appointed
to arrange for another meeting for the
consideration of the scale.
w. e. Taylor, of Pittsburg, came
here yesterday to represent the Amer
lean Steel Hoop Company in the con
ference to-day. He had a consultation
yesterday afternoon with the repre-
sentatives of the Republic Iron & Steel
Company, at which the condition of
the iron and steel markets was dis
cussed. When asked If the manufac-
turers would present any demands to
tne workers, James H. Mutt, secretary
OF the labor bureau of the Republic
lien &@Stesl Company said that moth
ing had been decided upon or will be
until the manufacturers are officially
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ers. Mr.. Mutt does not care to discuss
the new scale at present, and when
asked what he thought of it said;
L think the puddlers' scale means 25
cents a ton more than we are now pay
Ing" From present indications, Mr..
Mutt says, the next bi-monthly adjust
ment will show a considerable reduc-
ton in the price of bar iron. If the
indications are borne out by the sales
sheets for this month and next the
puddlers will receive no advance at all
over the present rate, but the new scale
will, if adopted prevent a reduction
which would occur if the present scale
was continued.
The discussion of the wage commit
tees report on the tin plate scale oc-
cupied all of yesterdays two sessions
and some warm deabtes occurred. The
committee reported no advance for the
tin plate workers, except the 6 per
cent granted this year. Some Of the
delegates from several Of the
Indiana tin plate mills came to the
convention instructed to demand an
additional 20 per cen increase, which
was not allowed by the committee.
This is what caused the trouble when
the report was presented. The discus
sion on the scale was continued at this
mornings session.
One Of the new clauses in the tin plate
scale reads as follows: That doublers
and heaters helpers be recognized on the
scale of wages, which a shall be uni
form, the heaters helpers receiving one
third of the heaters wages n the
doublers' helpers receiving one-third of
the doublers' wages after the screw boys
share has been deducted"
Another new clause introduced is as fol-
lows: THAT a committee be appointed by
the president to tabulate a base of
gauges to govern the scale of 1900 and
1861, and that the rate be changed on q
and IS gauge from the present to the fol-
Roller, $5.25 per ton; doubler,
$266 per ton; heater, $2.44 per ton; screw
boy, 40 cents per tom
The advance demanded for the finishing
mills in the iron scale is in the same pro-
as in the boiling department. IN
the bar and Pinch mill scale the advance
is one and fourteenth cents for every one
tenth cent advance in the price Of bar iron
N1lIi tAG price pL DNT EtdNieS one anu
seven-tenths. when the increase is one
and three tenths for each tenth Of a cent.
Catchers are to receive hve-eighths Of the
price paid bar mill rollers. But few
changes of n consequence are made in
this scale. This amendment to the work
ing rules has been made:
Scrap piles on bar mills as unfinished
product. 10 per cent less than bar iron
scale shall BE paid Another amend
meut reads: That on large bar mills
where there are three furnaces and very
heavy irons worked, the heaters be al
lowed TO charge for one another or the
day turn heaters charge for the night
turn heaters and the night turn heaters
charge for the day turn. BY so doing It
shortens the hours of the men in the fill
from one 20 two hours"
The changes in the guide, 10-inch. hoop
and cotton tie scales have been allowed
TO remain practically as they are at pres
ent with the proportionate advance
granted the puddlers-
Extent of Failure Growing.
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