Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1900 — WILL RESUME WORK. [ARTICLE]

WILL RESUME WORK.

Steel Mills and Amalgamated Association Strike a Compromise. Sixty thousand iron and steel mill men, who have been idle three months, will go back to work as a result of the signing of the yearly wage scale agreement in Cincinnati. The conferees of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers and of the manufacturers usu-

ally sign the wage scale agreement for the ensuing year on July 1. The past season the condition of the iron market has been so unsettled that an agreement could not be reached as readily as usual. Five conferences have been held prior to the one just dosed in Cincinnati, at New York, Detroit, Indianapolis and Youngstown, all without result. The new wage scale is a compromise. Neither side got just what it asked for, but both are fairly well satisfied and eager to get back to business. The mills affected by the signing of the scale have been closed for three months.