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Carnegie Gives Notice

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Parent Issue
Day
2
Month
October
Year
1894
Copyright
Public Domain
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FTTÏ93UKU-, Pa., Ooi. 1.- The Garnegiu Steel company ha postad notices ia tiio Homestead wo4s tfraii on Jan. 1 the scale of the coming year will be "readiusted." The sca!e expired in June and this was on. of the pointa on which the strike was bittorly fo.ugh.fc. company claimed that it iiiiited bettor to have the expiration near the end of the year, when the contracts for tho noxfc year were being plamied. After the strike that dato was adopted hy tho cumpaiiy and the men had: to agreo to it. One proviso of the scala wa3 that either side was bound to giv the othor threeinonShs' notioe of any ilesired change in. the scale. This the company has oomplied witü by postinjf the notiee bef ore Oct. t. Whe-a the scale was signad last year there a big reduction ia She wages of the tonnage men well a other employés of the cempany. Ii rangedl from 10 to 50 per oenti and created a great deal of dlssatLsfaction among the men, The turns were also changed. Men wholsad been workiug. on eight hour tTums were placed on twelve hour turns for thfi saiu. suid iu some iu stances less money.

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Subjects
Ann Arbor Argus
Old News