The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-01-03
Co1I nINIEa ConPLIoAIIoAs.
Saturday, HselIug at the lIeLuEO Hons
-AHOthsr HeeIinE TO be Held Io'SiIht'

~satuFdny's HseLIuE At the neLuFo HOuSs
-AHOthsF MeeIInE 70 be Held IO.HiEht.
Quite slarge meeting Of mill coalmInsrs
was held at the Mcclure Houte Saturday
afternoon, delegates being present from
the Martins Ferry, Etnaville, BellRire,
Bsnwood and Wheeling mill banks. D.
R. Jones, Esq, General Secretary, Presid-
ed, and a general report was made by the
delegates Of the condition Of affairs in the
banks they represented:
After canvGssing the situation thorough
ly and tranaactiug some unimportant bus
insas, the following resolutions were
adopted;
Firsk-Thst We make a demand for !
cent per bushel Of an advance. TO take
effect on Tuesday, January 1, 1881, or .
scale signed for n year, based on Wheel
ing nail card, with q cents % the lowest
step, and TO advance st cents for every Rd'
vance Of rs cents per keg In nails.
Second That II this advance is not
conceded on Monday next, the Sd Cay o.
January, 1881, that all the mill miners OF
the Ohio Valley District suspend mining
and stay at home until the q cents or the
said scale Is uncondiiOnally signed.
ThiTd.-ThAt these resolutions be placed
In the hands and trust Of the general sec
rotary for their execution,
Adjourned.
At the conclusion OF this convention, an
IETRLLIGRNCRR reporter came across seCre'
taTy Jones, at supper in the Mcclure
House, and asked him how the demand
for an increase had been received by those
atfsCted2
"Well, sir, that Is a part Of my presence
been pretty generally acceded to by The
operators Of banks, and to make the thinl
general and satisfactory throughout thu
Ohio Valley / am here Just now. There Il
another matter that Is not understood here
very well, and, by the way, | have alsC
spoken to the representatives oil the Sun
day papers about 1t, and 1t 10 this
There has always been q sort o
an injustice done the Pittsburgh
nail manufacturers, unintentionally, o
course, by the coal diggers or mill owners
in this, At Pittsburgh the mill
pay 81 cents per bushel for digging, but l
10 screened before weighing, Here Goa
has been dug always at rates below 2
cents for the mills, which ia not exact!
the square thing toward those up the riv
or, and to equaIlzs this discrepancy 1t hal
been thought that II the price was fixed q
q Cents in this locality, no discrimination
will result, But all this, | ]apprehend
will be settled very soon, and in further
anCe Of It's settlement | have called
meeting for Monday night, and have Ia
sued the following;
GENERAL ORDER
to the peddling banks Of this district,
A Delegate Convention OF all the ped
ding miners Of the Ohio Valley diStriC
10 hereby called to meet at the hook ant
ladder house, T%wenty.frBt street, Fiji
ward, Wheeling, at 7 ?, NJ, on next Mon
day, January 8, 1881, for the following pur
poses:
Firt-To see whether every peidllnI
miner in the district has received the dis
triCt price.
second-To take immediate steps Il
persuade those lew who continue to worl
under the district priCe--to the detrimen
Of their fellow.miners and to the sgriou
damage Of the operators who have pEiC
the advance, aud who are e%ndeayoring Il
be Just and maRnanimous TO their miner
Ito desist from underwriting their fellow
miners.
Third-To group together the mineI
working leSs than i've miners, and to cleo
for each group and for each mine workinI
Eve or more miners q local secretary ant
officers.