Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-10-19
WAR ON JARRETT.
Asking the President Of the AmaIga-
mated Association to Resign.
The Inside History Of the Dissatisfaction
The Feeling in This City on the
Questionable Outlook.

Quite sensation was created in this city
yesterday when the Pittsburgh papers ar
rived with the announcement that Mechan-
les Lodge No. %, of that city, had issued
a circular asking the President of the Anal
gamated Association, Mr.. John ]. Jarrett,
to step down and out Following Is the
article referred to:
Considerable speculation has been in
dulsed in recently in regard To the. accept.
ance or rejection by theAmalgamated AsS3-
citation of the circular Issued by Mechanics
Lodge No %, asking Jarrett % resign.
Last night q tinisher was interviewed on
his way from q caucus called 70 consider
the letter. He was fully OF the opinion
that ten lodges would sign the circular, and
were il not that the Amalgamated men dis
like to own up to having elected q man to
the Presidency who
THEY AFTERWARDS DIsTRUsTED
he said, more than ten lodges would sign
the circular. $40,
A'What is urged agairst Mr.. Jarrett"
swell, it is long story. He is charged
by the puddlers with leaning too much
toward the finishers when they became
dissatisfied during the closing days OF the
strike. He would go 70 their meetings
and counsel with them, and the very next
day counsel with and attend the meetings
held by the men who were in favor OF
holding out for the six dollar scale. He is
charged also with double dealing il his
business with the manufacturers. When
in Cincinnati he was found
UNDER SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES,
closeted with the mill owners. A presi.
dent of local lodge called upon him there
at his hotel and was told that Mr.. Jarrett
had retired with orders not 70 be disturbed
until 9 O'Clock the next day. The presi-
dent was not satisfied that all was right,
and waited in the hall of the hotel until
o'clock in the morning, when he saw some
of Cincinnaii's most prominent manufac-
turers coming out of his room. Just now
some of the lodges are conducting inquiries
with view to ascertain the true Inward
ness of those meetings. II it is all right
not so many lodges will sign as otherwise
would. think, however, that If Jarrett
sticks TO J offer to resign on the re-
Quest of ten ges that he will be accom-
mOdaLed."
Last night REGISTER reporter button
holed few of our most prominent iron
men, and asked their opinion OF the mat
ter, and in every instance the feeling was
most bitter against him. Said one OF them:
Mr. Jarrett has acted very unwisely in
this matter, and has done things without
authority. When terms were reached With
the puddlers, he declared the strike OIL,
thereby cutting the nailers and tinishers.
Wheeling governs the whole Western coun-
try as to the price paid for making nails. We
made aur scale here and presented it; 1t
was refused and we struck. Mr.. Jarrett
had no right to NEEDLE with us in that re-
spect, and overstepped the limit when he
did it,"
Said another gentleman:
Jarrett has shown very little common
sense all through the last strike. He is
very good man in some respects, but he has
certainly shown a weakness in this fight.
He had no more right than had to declare
the nailers' demsnd off. l would vote to-
morrow to dethrone him."
This is but small portion OF what was
said. but it shows beyond doubt the drift
of sentiment. 1t will take the votes of ten
lodges to Gust him, and it is more than
likely the kickers can get them,