Puddlers' Wages Raised Advance of 10 per cent, makes the rate $4.40 per ton Beginning next week the puddlers employed at the Wayne iron works, Pittsburg, will receive $4.40 per ton, an advance of 10 per cent over the rate now paid, which is the Amalgamated Association scale. The firm has operated non-union for more than an year but has always paid the scale rate in all departments. This advance does not include the finishing mills. When the firm substituted individual contracts for the Amalgamated Association agreement, the men were promised an advances as soon as a revival in trade justified.