The inside history of the Carnegie Steel Company, a romance of millions . experience of the horrors of mid-winter strikes justified theiropposition to the change; but unfortunately for the consistencyof the men, the steel company was able to point out that insome competing establishments the Amalgamated Associationpermitted their scale to expire on December 31st. The com-panys demand was therefore strengthened by precedents. As to the third point, which involved the most importantmatter of all, the reasonableness of the Carnegie demand wasbeyond question. The proposed reduction in tonnage rate
The inside history of the Carnegie Steel Company, a romance of millions . experience of the horrors of mid-winter strikes justified theiropposition to the change; but unfortunately for the consistencyof the men, the steel company was able to point out that insome competing establishments the Amalgamated Associationpermitted their scale to expire on December 31st. The com-panys demand was therefore strengthened by precedents. As to the third point, which involved the most importantmatter of all, the reasonableness of the Carnegie demand wasbeyond question. The proposed reduction in tonnage ratesapplied to only three departments in the works: namely, the 208 THE HOMESTEAD HATTLE 32-inch slabbing-mill, the 119-inch plate-mill, and the open-hearth furnaces. An illustration will best serve to make clearthe point at issue. * WTien the scale for 1889 was signed for the 119-inch plate-mill, it was based on rolling plates direct from ingots, and theoutput was about 2,500 tons a month. But when the ingotswere first passed through the 32-inch slabbing-mill—the great. Copyright by S. S. McClure Co. The 119-inch plate-mill. machine that had developed out of Zimmers little Universal mill—and then through the 119-inch plate-mill, the tonnage of thelatter was more than doubled. With the sweet unreason of thetoiler, the men who operated the 119-inch plate-mill refused toshare with their employers the cost of running the slabbing-mill, and demanded just as much for rolling plates from slabsas they had been getting for rolling plates from ingots; insist-ing, moreover, upon receiving all the benefit of the investmentthat had gone into this million-dollar machine. Similarly in /?/KSr A( /S O/- IlOLEXCE 209 tlie opcn-hoaith department. When the i(S89 scale was signed,this was a comparatively new business; and in three years ithad been v^astly improved. Tonnages had increased ; labor hadbeen made easier by the substitution of machines; but thebenefits had mainly gone to the workmen. M
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