The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-12-11
mAXUFACIURING NOrES.
Buslne.. and Local Ilems Relating to

BuyinesS and Local Itema heAAaHb ~
Coat, Iron and Glass.
Over 60OOO6O bushels OF coal passed
Wheeling on the recent rise.
All the mills in St. Louis are running
s,ealy with good prospects.
There has OF late been quite an influx oil
English glass workers to Pittsburgh.
The New York Chamber Of Commerce
ha, declared In favor OF q national bank
rupt act.
The boys employed by the Pittsburgh
Hinge Company, Beaver Falls, Pa, have
struck for rs cents per day.
For tue week ending Saturday, Deem
Der 4, the nail factory at the Norton Iron
Works turned out A 3Bl kegs OF nails.
Nearly every steel rail mill in the coun'
try has orders on hand sufficient to run
them for q year.
Joseph Hamilton, Of the new coal works
ot.be Top mill, Wheeling, VIVA, deserve
great credit for the manner in which he
las completed the work there-LGbor Tn
Jlme.
The Lawrence, Betont and Iron and
Steel mills arc going at Ironton, O., with
good prospects. Shipments for the week
ending December 2, were, bar iron, l'e
tons; nails, $50 kegs. -,
Il ia said that Williams & Winans, near
Canneliou, W. Va, are now making hrst'
class coke from Karawha Goals, Goals over
30 per cent Of carbon. ,.
Tho Clifton, W. Va, mill Is not running
one third time, and the men and hrm are
in the dumps In consequence. Their pros
pec,s for the winter are anything but nat
tering. -.
bean about completed by which the roll
inp mill at MUundsYllle, W. Va, will be
started early In the new year. There have
been rumors OF this kind sfloAt before, hui
there was nothing In them. We trust this
one will prove correct.--Ldbor Tribune.
The following address to the Wheeling
miners appears in this weeks issue Of the
Pittsburgh Labor Tribune:
1.-THE time is at hand when we should
make some arrangements for the coming
wear, | think the present scale was mis-.
take, and should not be again signed. !
congratulate you all upon the manly and
honorable conduct which you have eVin,
ced by standing to your agreements anc
promises under such trying and tempting
surroundings, and hereafter ! can with
pride point to your example whenever the
good faith OF the miners is assailed. I'm
der the circumstances, think 1t best Tor
YOU, gentlemen, to ask for reasonable ad
vance. What is reasonable advance
may be 10 question. ! think 1t should be
one.hall cent per bushel."
We should earnestly endeaVor to settle
this question without strike. This Is the
most rational policy, and to further 1t the
following instructions are hereby Issued
First-The miners OF each mine, or any
mine desiring to act with the Wheeling
district, shall elect one cool-headed, sensi
bic and faithful miner as representative
with only the instruction, "Do the besi
you can for US. /,
SeCond-Elch representative shall visi
his employer and ASCERTAIN whether or mo-
he will, with the other employers or BY
committee from them with or without thu
General Secretary, atsome place to be des
ignated by the employers, meet to coniel
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on the question OF price.
Third-That the report Of the confer
enCe be laid before the miners OF each
mine, for their adoption or rejection, al
they, after discussion and consideration
may decide.
Fourth-That district convention b'
called within two weeks after the date o
the conference to collect, constitute aut
declare the will OF the entire district OF
the question.
FlIth-Aud the representatives so SO
lected are hereby requested to meet a
Handlsn Hall, Eighth ward, Wheeling
W. Va, at3r, M, on next Saturday, the
18th day OF December, 1880, to have
preliminary consultation. The Genera
Secretary will be present.
D. r. JONES, Gen. Sec.
p;LJ,bUrob D,r 4 1880