Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-08-31

Nothing Novel I'm the Situation Here OF
I'm Pitfsburg.


There is nothing new in the matter OF
the strike. The town is rife with rumors
of starts and the bases of starts, but the
most dilisent inquiry fails to develop any
thing of a tangible nature, and it is the
honest opinion of the mill reporter that
unless the operators concede the advance
there will be no mills started up here this
fall. The strikers say they think now, as
they did in May last, that they are right
and will stand by their position. On the
other hand it is very hard TO get an operator
to say anything about his intentions, and
as the atmosphere about the aforesaid is
too chilly for comfort, an average reporter
must be content to take the conjectures
and give them for their face value.
We tried several times yes terday to draw
out some Of the manufacturers, but they
were not very "ductile," and our efforts
were unrewarded. =.
Mr.. c. ID. Thompson, Vice President OF
the Amalgamated Association for Wheel
ing district, was encountered at Martins
Ferry yesterday, and expressed himself as
yery confident that the event of the strike
would be a complete triumph for the opera
tives. He had never seen 60 much unan-
unity and accord, every man was as deter
mined 10 hold out as he was at the incep-
ton of the trouble, and would just as soon
wait till January as not. None OF them are
oppressed by want and none are likely 20
be. No, sir, my honest opinion is that IL
there is any immediate start up 1t will be
on the basis of the new scala. l mean the
one rejected by the operators on June lst'
1882.
But let US suppose that the mills start
ND with non.uniOn men, quoted our re-
porter. :, ,,
An incredulous and scornful smile fitted
over the face of the young man for an in
slant before he replied:
1T is an impossibility. There are not
non-union men sufficient to undertake
such movement in the country, and IN
the second place what are comeataole are
such indifferent mechanics as TO make their
employment very undesirable. The nom
union aspect does not alarm me IN the
least" ,-...-
At this iuncture the Little Anna came
along. and as we boarded her the Secretary
of one of the mills joined us and took part
in the conversation. Directly an allusion
was made to the twenty-five cents per ton
that was was paid in advance of Pittsburgh
rates, and the Secretary said that be thought
it was paid rather as matter of custom than
as q lust desert, and in his opinion 1t would
he discontinued under the new order OF
things
There is where differ with you," said
Mr.. Thompson. 1.-THE men will cling to
that more tenaCiously than they would to
the so cents already asked. That was gwen
10 us voluntarily in Difference to the disad-
yantages in the matter of coal that we have
over Pittsburg."
WAS it not rather given many years ago
to induce men to come here to work from
PittSburg and other places? Was IL not at
first a dollar q ton more thar Pittsburg
gave, and did it not gradually fall in obedi-
euce to necessity until it reached it's pres
ent status? Is not that the history OF the
advance?
Mr.. Thompson did not contest the point,
but insisted that the % cents was given be-
cause it took longer here to get up heat
with Wheeling coal than it did in Pitts
burgh, and the third hand was all result OF
that fact