Show BUCHANAN HITS SNAG Trying to Pacify Bridge andIron and-Iron Workers FACES DIFFICULT PROBLEM Wageo in tho Small Towns Wont Fit Big Places Effort to Frame National Scale Results Re-sults in Wrangling and Threats of Disorganization Chicago Dec President Frank Buchanan oC the Bridge and Structural Iron Workers thc successor of Sam Parks as head of the organization faced a dlHleult problem last night when he endeavored to induce representative 1 of the various locals of the union to frame a national wage scale to supercede super-cede those now In effect Twentyfive Iron workers holding credentials from as many locals gathered here to adjust the wage problem prob-lem of the union and they were unable un-able to agree The men In Chicago anNe an-Ne York who arc getting tiiO a day wanted a national rate higher than that schedule and those from the smaller cities declared It could not be enforced I After hours of wrangling a subcommittee subcom-mittee ot seven was appointed to investigate in-vestigate the matter and make a 1 report I re-port to the twentyJive The seven who are JIH follows met last night C I M Massey New York Frank Thoman Chicago M Galleatlne Pittsburg J FInnegan St Louis C Hopkins Newark X J Patrick Mackln Chl CIKO J Brett Milwaukee CAN FORCE DEMANDS When the committee met the three New York and Chicago men again tried to force the others to agree to the wage rates In the large clue They argued that when men from the New York and Chicago unions were taken to Hinall places they should not suffer a reduction re-duction In pay They declared that ironworkers Iron-workers now numbering IL000 men could easily compel contractors to grant I their demands and make even tin American Bridge company which nearly I near-ly I wrecked the organization last spring do as they did But ho I men from I Chicago and New York could not win over the othurc President Buchanan I mulortnolc the role of peacemaker but WSLS unable to accomplish anything and the gathering broke up MAY 13RTJAK AWAY The New York and Chicago men said I that unlesis their proposition was conceded con-ceded they would break away from the I International organization anti form Independent In-dependent bodies This Buchanan la trying to prevent and he has called a meeting of the committee for today |