Frick  said  in  his  testimony  that  in  the  1 1 9-inch  mill  the  men  re-
ceiving the  highest  wages  were  the  ones  who  received  the  greatest
reduction.*  This  is  true  only  in  the  sense  that  the  men  at  the  ex-
treme foot  of  the  scale  were  not  reduced.  Among  those  whose
wages  were  reduced,  there  seems  to  have  been  no  attempt  at  an
equitable  leveling  process.  The  three  rollers  in  the  n  9-inch  mill
were  cut  about  44  per  cent,  so  that  their  average  monthly  earn-
ingsf  were  reduced  from  $272.28  to  $i  53.64.  In  the  same  mill  there
were  thirty  shearman's  helpers  whose  average  earnings  were  cut
from  $92.76  to  $43.65,  a  cut  of  53  per  cent.  In  the  32-inch  slab-
bing mill  the  two  rollers  were  reduced  from  $198.42  a  month  to
$166.67,  a  cut  °f  J6  per  cent.  In  the  same  mill  the  two  second
helpers  on  the  heating  furnaces  were  reduced  32  per  cent — from
$86.92  a  month  to  $58.80.  In  the  two  open-hearth  departments
the  twenty-four  melters,  who  were  receiving  $6.00  per  day,  were
to  receive  no  reduction  whatever,  while  the  first  helpers  in  No.  i
open-hearth  department  were  cut  from  $3.28  per  day  to  $2.92,  and
second  helpers  were  cut  from  $3. 14  a  day  to  $2.37.  In  open-hearth
department  No.  2  the  first  helpers  were  to  be  reduced  from  $4.32
per  day  to  $2.85,  and  second  helpers  from  $3.37  to  $2.37.  These


*Mis.  Doc.,  No.  335,  52d  Cong.,  ist  Sess.,  p.  162.
f  Based  on  figures  for  May,  1892,  submitted  by  Frick.     Page  5  of  testimony
before  Congressional  committee,  op.  cit.
