The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-08-23
TIE STRIKE.
yrs., Go.>ipnn Speculation In Regard

to Il. T
F,.butrh dispatch Of jss,cr'tay.
Perhaps nothing about the present strike
oI iron WORKERS has been the subject OF
more frequent remark than the position
ukrn BY the principal officers OF the Anal.
yau,ated Association, nearly all Of whom
se free to admit, even to outsiders, that
,hcy do not approve 1t. 1t is we'll known
tia, this feeling had no slight influence in
bringing about the changes in the cons,i.
luton ut the recent convention, which
viii make the Association in the future
Quite different thing from what it has
been heretofore. Last eveninga Dispatch
reporter hal short talk with Treasurer
Penney, ut his home OIL the South
Side, in which the strike was the
principal topic. ''l do not sec any pros.
beet Of an early settlement of the
question:" said he, replying TO the report.
gs inquiry. 81 nm making my. calcula.
tons on the supposition that it is going 10
la, all winter. Yes. think the men are
tlIty as iirm and as determined rs at any
time since the strike wus declared. | do
not ae any evidence OF weakening. That
vas clearly shown lust week in the failure
Of the effort to yet up u district meeting.
Some members Of n few Of the lodges made
the attempt, but it was an utter flilure and
ie!l Aat That Is u very positive indication
,ha, there is no great dissatisfaction any.
how anon; our members" ,,
Ibid the strike in the first place meet
with your approval?' asked the reporter.
" think the association made mistake
in declaring it when they did. l mean
tha, j, WAS not good policy, The result
has been that whatever loss there has been
thus far has been borne by the men, while
the manufacturers have made nearly as
much money as usual. For the. first six
weeks OF the strike the amount Of business
fell only per cent. below that for the same
,lale last year. They are only now begin
niuy to feel il. Ii the demand for iron had
been brisk and the stock light, both would
have lost in the same proportion"
DO YOU think from your knowledge Of
the iron market, that the manufacturers
ran easily afford to pay the new scale"
u would not care to express IN opinion
on TINT point. There is one thing | have
noticed and that is that the profit OF the
business is not fairly divided. I know
mil! men who have had good Jobs and
spent 20 and 50 years in the business and
who have been steady and careful, and vet
they have not succeeded in saving any
thing like Ms much money rs the manufac.
iareF who made beginning by putting
5000 into mill. Making due allowance
tor the interest and compensation for the
Hsss that have to be run, the producer
docs not get his due share OF the profits"
rs there any probability OF Tie Amalga-
mated Association proposing 4 compromise
Of any kind?" .S9i, ~. z
u donot believe there is. I have seen
no indication Of that whatever. In all
my association with the inen since the
StlSe began have never heard it sus.
ANow would scheme Of arbitration be
ijoa?' '-1's.-. -
! don't think we are prepared for arbi.
Triton. mean not uloue in this particu-
lar case, but generally. The time for
Ibtration MS n remedy for labor troubles
hAs not come yet. ! have no doubt that
We will be educated up to n point when We
will adopt it.
! The reporter then called Afr. Penny's at.
ention TO the criticisms that have been
made on the course taken by the associa-
lion in first declaring for m advance in
lhe several departments and then knock
lns of all but the puddlers and the rollers,
and subsequently rc-atlirning the original
demands, and asked him il there was any
explanation for it.
lie replied that the whole thing was the
iau!t OF the manufacturers themselves.
There are some things about that which
haye never yet been brought out before the
public. would not tell them to Il report
e', hut il any manufacturer denies it | am
1e:sdy to provet to him tl,at the manulac-
lase's are to blame for the new scale being
adopted in the first place, then for the con-
ee.S'on that was made in everything but
pudding and muck rolling, and again Tor
'hese concessions being taken back again
anu The original scale put forward as the
elpmalum OF the association. Il would
IsoaotlesS make very interesting reading,
w, WI there are are some things, you know.
We e, must keep to ourselves"
. Inc conversation then turned on the
uainr'al condition oil the uuion and the
ansl'ty OF the men to stand Il. long strike.
s Ms tenny declined to make any state.
mehl, exceptiu general way that the
ue.ss'ry was i'll first class shape and he
sHeah emphatic denial to the stories
sn1 sn3at deS''tn,ion among the members He
.';" H'asu That il it had not been for the asSo-
iS,av,on Sau and the sliding scale, wages would
NAVY 'is,,s long since been reduced. "The man.
nj IvS"ieis,' c0m,i, said he, "'may make a Nation.
tsJ JIV',o'nasion .,.'si 10 break up the Amalgama.
msv vaS,ossa'IOn, .,, md it is possible that they
In 3. sueveeu, but they;will never succeed
thu destroying s',, the influence it has had on
set M NJ G'gn, y; aai in my opinion, ii they do
linn ,u ,L y, u. they will be in a worse shape
-'ah klley ever u'prn haf>r, ~ Hf.tEr. Fr0ag.-f,