The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-04-16
from and Coal Industries NJ stem.
benyille and Vicinity.

miners we're s. Is; at McGary 4 c.
mines, $40, and at the Gravel Shat
mines sos per week.
At Mipso furnace the wages paid ii
the VARIOUS departments are not glven,bu
at the Jefferson furnaces they were a
follows : Keepers sl1 40 per week, 6llerl
su 20, engineers sl6, iremen 50, black
smith s12 and laborers So 90.
The .steubenvills Furnace and Irol
Company paid keepers slS 50 each, filler,
sll 20, engineers Sl7 so, blacksmith
slO6O, carpenter $40 so, weishman slt
and laborers 81.
The earnings at the Jefferson rolling
mill are given as II paid by the week
which, we presume, is q mistake as re
CARDS puddlers, heaters, rollers, and vari
Gus other employees usually paid BY TIT
ton. For instance, the report says tina
heaters are paid sls per week, helper
sll; puddlsrs $50, helpers $40; roller
$50 and s42, helpers SIS 30; hOOkupI
50 rs, catchers SIS, engineer SIG, fireman
50, blaeksmiths sl2, carpenter SIS
weighnan 50, and labOrers 50 90.
The three mines reported from steu-
benyillle pay wages fully in cash every
two weeks. OF the others . reports
q paid as earned, in merchandise-cast
optional with rs, but, Of course, pa!
what Ia necessary to procure what We
cannot furnish" As TO financial, social.
moral and other conditions o. miners, thl
report says: The average is good, som'
saving money; Others spend as fast al
earned, and would II wages were three
times as much. Some have their owl
homes; some are renters. We have ruI
for two years TO keep our men employed
and hoping for better times go We Woult
be ready. Had we not done SO about one
half would have to be supported by The
township. The men, as general thing
are very sociable and civil. AS to theil
moral condition l have nothing to say
They are all dependent on their day.
work for a living" A miner reports
his earnings for six months ending Jul,
/, 1877, at Sl40, out Of which he had tt
pay s2i for powder, ETC., leaving his ne
earnings at Sll6; reduction Of 30 pei
cen. since 1872, pays So per month rent
house not owned bylemplOyer, has 8 chill
dren, receives his pay semi-monthly IL
cash. Another reports so cents per ton fol
mining, and gives his earnings III th,
same period at Sl40.3s, paid S222s
for powder, etc, leaving SlIs09; reduc-
ton so per cent; pays So per month
rent, house not owned by employer, nc
reduction OF rent since 1872, has 5chil'
dren and receives his pay in store goods
He evidently lives outside Of Steuben'
Vile. Concerning the strike last yea
the report says:
THE STRIKE AT srEuBEsvILLE-l
In Steubenvilie the miners are paid b.
the car at the rate OF twenty five cent
per car. The cars are calculated 10 hole
fifteen bushels. Some complaint wa
made by the miners liz reference TO III,
size Of the cars, they claiming they helt
from seyenteen 10 eighteen bushels. A
disinterestsd person who measured th'
cars, stated to the Bureau that the car
held sixteen bushels, Of 2,6SS cubi,
inches, or eighty pounds to the bushel
The men at the Gravel Pit demanded al
advance from twenty Ave cents or on,
and two.thirds cents per bushel, to thirt.
cents per car or two cents a bushel. Thr
men In the Stony Hollow Shalt also mad,
u demand for an advance, and were fol-
lowed by the men in High Shalt. Thes
strikes commenced early in September
1877. The employers sought 10 put othe
men to work in place Of the striker,
which resulted In demonstration on th
part Of the strikers Of such a characte
tha: the Mayor Of the city issued a pro
clamation calling on the citizens to COM
to his aid in suppressing disorder. o.
September l7lh the Mayor and posse pro
ceeded 10 the mines. The strikers wer
addressed by the Mayor, and commanded
to dispense. Failing to do so, 4 numbc
were arrested; and the men who had bee
secured TO 20 10 work entered the mine
The strikers claimed that they were un
able TO make a living at the prices paid
while the companies claimed to be payiDI
all that the business permitted.
The report further says:
In steubenville, wages are paid semi
monthly in cash. 4.
AT Hammondsville, wages are not pail
in cash, but almost entirely in goods.
One man working there in the coal mine
for three years has only received in cas-
the sum Of 1856 The goods at the store
it IL claimed, are not up to the standard
while the prices in October, 1877, wer
as follows: