Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-05-30
THE SCALE COMMITTEE
NOT READY 70 REPORT.
MAY BE GIVEN TO THE .ON-
yENTION TO-DAY.
NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS
STEEL COMPANY MILLS WILL
BE UNIONIZED.

MILWAUKEE,, Wis, May 29.-The
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steal
and Tin Workers met in general con-
vention this morning to receive re-
ports of the progress OF the various
committees.
After roll call it was announced that
the wage committee was ready to re-
port, if necessary, but that it required
a few hours more committee work to
arrange the details of the hoop and cot
ton tie scale, and some special scales
that applied principally to local mills.
The committee on changes in consti-
tuition asked an extension of time to
complete its report and stated tina. it
was entirely probable that it would be
ready for presentation to the convention
tomorrow morning. In view of the fact
that many of the changes in the con-
stitution have a bearing on the wage
scale. it was decided to adjourn the gen.
eral session until tomorrow morning,
when the complete reports of all the
committees. it is thought, will be ready
for presentation.
The committee on ritual and secret
work are also dependent, in a measure,
on the recommendations of the report of
the committee on constitutional
changes, and it is stated that the former
committee preferred having the rep ,rts
tee precede that of the committee on rit-
ual.
A resolution that had a number of
supporters among the dele gates from
the Ohio valley was one that provided
for tae removal of national hoadquar-
ters OF the organization from P~itts5urg
to Columbus, o. The resolution was re-
fer.ed to the committee on the good of
the order. and an u%nfayorabla report
was made or the PROPOSED removal.
In the report the chairman of The
committee declared that as P~ittsburg
Vas admittedly the center OF tie iron
and steel business in the United States,
the headquarters of al Organization
whose members were dependent on the
iron and steel industry should remain
as close to the heartbeat I'll the markets
az possible.
The resolution was rejected by all
overwhelming vote. The resolutions
committee has also a molten before it
that is intended to allow representation
in the National official list Of all the
departments of iron and sttcal working.
Ihe resolution asks that of the national
officers one shall be a fin;sher, apcther
a puddler, still another a sheet mill
man, tin mill man, and so on. The res
olution is ~unfavorably reported. but it
had many adherents among the never
delegates who are not aware that the
diversified crafts are now ,erresentei
as far as it is possible with a limited
number of officers.
The wage committee was held UP in
its deliberations over the distribution OF
the wages of the single boy; that in
d%ividual, it is claimed, Is paid from de-
auctions from wages of the heater and
rougher and a moiety from the manu-
facturer. The resolution asked that the
manufacturer should pay the single
boy, and amendments were tackled on to
the resolution as to whose duty it was
to pay the wages of the single boy. The
only solution was to refer the question
to the separate districts for local adj
justment under the mill usages.
President Shaffer stated to-day that
he would have the representatives OF
the manufacturers advised that the
wage demand was in shape for a pre-
liminary conference. Secretary J. II.
Mutt, of the labor bureau of the Repub-
lie Iron and Steel Company, will notify
other manufacturers interested, and a
meeting will be arranged by Secretary
Mutt, the date Of which will be later
given down to the workers wage COM
mittee.
Secretary John Jarrett. of the labor
bureau of the American Sheet Steel
Company, will also be present at the
preliminary examination. He, 1t is said,
will revise the loose rolling sheet scale
OF the Devices Wood plant, Of McKees-
port 1t Is current among the delegates
here that NO changes were made in the
rates Of wages being paid at the Nc
Keesport plant and that the wage
agreement OF the Amalgamated Asso-
citation for next year for that plant is
an exact duplicate Of the famous Alan
Wood individual empioye agreement,
except that the association signs as a
party to the agreement instead OF the
individual. This conservative action on
the part Of the organization, 1t is
claimed, has reconciled President Nc
hurry. of the Sheet Steel Company. TO
tho unionizing Of the mills. and 1t Is an
ticipated By the ofncials Of the Amalga-
mated Association that Z more extern
aiye recognition IN AL the sheet mills Of
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