The Prescott daily news., 1914-07-20
GOOD TIMES IN PROSPECT, FOR COMPANIES ARE WILLING
 TO BOOST PAY.
PROSPERITY IS ON THE ROAD
A Record Year Is in Sight and the Confidence of Big Business Lends a Satisfactory Tone to All
 Commercial Endeavors.
(VNU News Service l


 Pittsburg, July 20.-Showing confi- dence in return 70 good times, with record year in prospect, independ- ent sheet and tin plate manufacturers, principally of the middle west, the Western Bar Iron association and the big independent steel concern, the Republic Iron and Steel company, have just completed signing scales for affiliated mills with the Amalga- mated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, which assure peace for another year between the independ- ents and their men.
 In the face of a period of depres. sion, such as in the past has forced the Amalgamated association to ac- cept reductions, an increase of 25 cents-from $525 to $5.50-in the base for pudding has been granted and all other grades will be continued as they existed last year.
 "It is the best settlement we have ever made under conditions such as existed this time" said President John Williams of the Amalgamated association on his return from trip through several states obtaining sig natures to the new scales
 Looks for Prosperity.
 Williams is high protectionist and has appeared many times before com mittees of congress in tariff revision times, opposing reductions in the metal schedules He opposed the re- duction under the Underwood bill
 Do you look for return of pros perity?" was asked
 That" Williams answered "is what we based our fight on, for the increase in the pudding rate and to maintain the present scale in other directions, and the manufacturers in granting what we asked, felt the same way about it-that a big year for their business was ahead
 Thousands of men are affected by the settlement in Pennsylvania Ohio, West Virginia. Illinois, Indiana. Mis- souri, Michigan. as far southwest as Texas, east to Rhode Island and at Los Angeles.
 In former years, at scale settlement time, the slightest hint of a falling off in business has been the signal for a demand for a decreaes in wages by the manufacturers. This demand was repeated this year at the preliminary conferences in Atlantic City. but later abandoned. When the scale year ex- pired many plants closed automatical- ly and the men were thrown into idle ness, as is customary when no scales are signed.
 Some of the Plants Affected
 Settlement with the independent sheet and tin plate manufacturers means that smoke will pour out of the chimneys again at such plants as Fol lsnsbee Bros, Follansbee, w. Va. De Forest Sheet and Tin Plate com pany Niles, O.; Newport Rolling Mill O., Newport, Ky; Carnahan- Tin Plate and Sheet company, Canton, O.; Trumbull Steel company, Warren O.; Youngstown Iron and Steel company, Youngstown, O.; National Enameline and Stamping company, Granite City, Ill
 Under the agreement with the West ern Bar Iron association, with it's 25- cent increase in the base for pud ding, among the plants affected are: Inland works. Republic Iron and Steel company, East Chicago, Ind; Ameri- | can Car and Foundry company, De ] troit; Empire Rolling Mill company Cleveland; Fort Wayne Rolling Mill | company. Fort Wayne, Ind; Highland | Iron and Steel company, Terre Haute. 1 Ind; Interstate Iron and Steel com pany, East Chicago, Ind; Helmbacker | Forge and Rolling Mill company, St. | Louis. Mo- and Madison, Ill; Kansas | Bolt and Nut company, Kansas City, | Mo; Lake Erie Iron company, Cleve- | land, O.; National Rolling Mill com pany, Vincennes, Ind; Ohio Falls Iron | company, New Albany, Ind; Railway Steel Spring company. Detroit; Union Rolling Mill company, Cleveland; Texas Rolling Mill company, Fort Worth, Tex. and Lockhart Iron and Steel company. McKee's Rocks, Pa.