Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-08-30
A NEW PHASE
Dew uped In the Mill Situation
| Here.
Manufacturers Determined to Sweep Away
the Difference Between Pittsburg and
Wheeling Boiliag-Yesterday's
Talk Of Resuming Work -

the manufacturers, belief that the men
have Tor are ready toy succumbed, and that
the great strike is virtually over, winnie AT
the same time il discovers rom the men,
that they are more determined than ever
10 remain out, and more than ever satlshed
that any attempt TO run mill with nom
Union men'will prove futile. But 1t fur.
Their discovers, that, in relation TO she scale,
still greater divergency than ever exists
between men and owners, rs VIII appear
further on.
The great strike has now extended
through period of three months, and mas
entered its thirteenth week. When it be-
gan certain prominent men said this: we
have begun on q strike which must last I'M
ill September or until February. About
September there will be
for then the fall demand for nails will
spring up. II no settlement is reached
then. nothing will be done until February,
when the manufacturers will begin to think
of spring trade" Yesterday this same
man recalled his language to REGIsrER re-
Porter. and added: You see am being
borne out by facts. Manufacturers are now
thinking Of their fall trade and looking
about TO see the prospects OF start.
The impression is growing that few
DAYS, at most, will witness change in the
situation, but just how it will be brought
about is not so easily seen. Manufacturers
reveal the belief that the men are ready to
come to work at the old rates, but the latter
say they we're never more firm. The former
claim that there is too much suffering and
want among the men, and while this is ad-
mitted by the latter they say they are able
10 relieve it and hold out. But new
feature in the difficulty was revealed yes
terday by Col. w. l.. Hearne, of the River
side Company. A REGISTER reporter asked
him this; a.-- :
rs your company ready to take the old
men and 20 TO work at the old prices?"
mo, sir, said he, emphatically.
What do you want?"
There are several notifications to be
made to the last scale before We will go to
work. The pricipal one is --.
THE DIFFERENCE OF 25 CENTS
per ton for boiling We pay over Pittsburgh.
There is no reason or justice in it. and we
will insist on an equality with Pittsburgh"
"Do not the men claim to have more
hands to pay than the Pittsburg boilers"
"Nothingin it. They must, of course,
have an argument but there is nothing in
it. The difference between Wheeling and
Pittsburg began before came here and l
do not know why. But in April, 1870, the
boilers struck for more and stayed out until
September. They were offered a compro-
mise, but refused it. They finally agreed
TO come back, if a contract for year were
entered into, regardless OF the market, but
the owners refused this. They could have
gone to work then, at the Pittsburg price,
but for one thing. Mr.. s. II. Woodward
had been away TO the seashore, and upon
his return the men went to him aud he
.Aa hnn Sh
because they had always been get
ting il. That settled 10 then, but
1t was sgreed among manufacturers that at
the next boilers strike, the extra % cents
should be swept away, as there was no rea-
son on earth why we should pay more than
any place in the whole world. That time
has come now. II Pittsburgh should go to
work, we might not here, unless this extra
quarter should be striker out. We can
afford to wait 1t may be one day, or five
days, or five months, but 1t must come at
last"
as this agreed to generally among manu-
facturers|
al believe it is. There are other matters
of the scale requiring change, but this is
the principal one"
"Do you believe there will be any gener-
al effort by manufacturers here to start up
with non-union menu
Il don't think there is any necessity for
il. The men will return and now in Pitts
burg the return is talked Of on the streets"
1T is rumOred the Upper Riverside will
shortly light up, is there any truth in it?'
IL tell you there is no nece' sity for 1T.
No"
OTHER OPINIONS.
Major IoIing, of the Benwood mill, said
he preferred To say nothing for pu 5licatiOn,
no ia halia
did either side any good. Prttsburg was
headquarters, he said, and action there
would come first. He explained the adj
vance for boiling over Pittsburg by saying
Gel. Norton had, in the beginning, yolun-
tarily made the offer 10 induce skilled boil
ers to come and live here.
Mr.. J. X. McCourtney positively declined
to speak, saying: IF you get anything
out of me, just let me know"
OF the rumors respecting the Ia Belle
mill, prominent Majors say absurd is the
best word with which to fifty characterize
them. Mr.. Dubois, of the Belmont, is now
formulating plan, but has it not yet
ready, and the Top and 4Etna mills are in
statu quo.
Trustee Ed. Rogers said yesterday, after
learning the above. that the Amalgamation
in Wheeling was never stronger or better
disciplined, and was never more determined
To hold out, and these sentiments were
echoed by every Association man met.
AT BRLLAIRE
There is quite different time IL day as
regards the starting of the Bellaire mill.
Yesterday some of the folks were excited
more Or less over the matter, and thought
that the mill would really, start 1psith
only a few wOrkmen, and try 20 ell In as
they went along. Others were calm. cool
a h.AH
\ mailer or two who had intended to go 10
work. il the mill started, We're telling
round yesterday for feeders, but they were
SCarce, and the project Of starting the mill
on the terms proposed was discouraged, and
now we learn it has been abandoned.
President MeCourtney said, this morning,
that they would Just drop the matter for
the present, and then he went away. 1t is
believed there is to be meeting of the
manufacturers, and that the matter is To be
discussed and. probably, some terms of
compromise effected. From what has been
demonstrated by the feeler and the general
outlook in these parts, il seems practically
impossible to start the mills without sign
ing the scale, unless the men surrender,
and this they do not seem very likely to
do. As the first of September draws near
We may look for new and perhaps agreeable
surprises in the iron situation. The man.
ufacturers, it seems, want to start up.-LH-
DEPENDENT
AT PITTsBRUGH.
On Monday, the Executive Committee of
the alliance of Western rolling mill firms
held meeting in the rooms Of the Western
Iron Association, and took action which it
is claimed will bring the iron workers
strike to a speedy conclusion, The COM
mittee consists OF seven members, four of
whom are Pittsburghers. ID. b. Oliver is
chairman, and the other local members are
Jsmes !. Bennett. A. +. Heating and John
Chafant. The meeting was secret, of
course, and il was impossible to obtain
anything from any of those present in re-
gard to the proceedings, but enough was
sscertained from outside sources to indicate
that,the committee had what they must
have considered satisfactory assurance that
the men were ready to go back to work at
last years wages. They drew up terms on
which the manufacturers would start their
MILLS.
LAST YEARS SCALE
is 10 he signed for the ensuing year, giving
$3.50 for boiling. the Amalgamated ASso-
ciation to be recognized fully, as hereto
fore.