Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-05-20
THE STRIKES.
The Miners and Operators Adjust
Matters Amieably for the
Present. !.
President Jarrett Says a Strike 10
InsvitabIe.--Th Men Will
Not Rccsde. "a
A Pittsburgh Firm Notifies Their
Men to Accept the Re-
duction Now or Quit.
.Soeeinl Disputeh 10 the Register.

SpeCtHt DfSputCH ~ VIC LLS'Ste's -
P1rrsRuRGH, May 19.-The first trade
tribunal organized under the provisions o.
the Wallace act, met here this afternoon 10
arbitrate the differences existing between
the railroad coal operators and miners.
Fully 5000 miners have been on strike
since the LIST inst The opening efiortsof
the tribunal was directed toward gesipg,
Them again at work. In less than an hour
the tribunal, composed Of five men from
each side, decided that the strikers should
resume work on Monday next, pending the
final decision in reference to the price OF
mining. The result thus far gives general
satisfaction to both sides, and the miners
organization have ordered all the men in
on Monday.
The Coming Struggle.
PITTSBURGH, MAY l9-The fact that every
person now believes strike OF the iron
workers TO be inevitable has made that
matter once more the chief topic OF con-
versation. Every person familiar with the
situation regards the outcome OF the strug'
gle dependent almost entirely on three clr-
cumstanCes, viz: the position OF the non
union iron workers after the strike Is de-
cIared, the degree of unity which prevails
in the ranks of the manufacturers anu
workmer, and the financial condition OF
the latter.
At the headquarters of the Amalgamated
Association this morning President Jar.
rett said that il was confidently expected
that large proportion OF the non'unlon
men would stand with those Oh
union proclivitics in the strike against
reduction OF wages. He declined 10 give
the names of any of the mills in which
these men are employed as it would not
be polite to do so, butnevertheless SCENE
confident that his prediction would ne
fulfilled. The reason he assigns for his
faith is that the onunion men will suiler
as much as their union brethren II wages
are reduced. Mr.. Jarrett was also conf
dent that the ranks of the Amalagamated
Association would be solid in the fight. as
all interests are united. On the financial
phase of tbs question he would say moth
ing save that it did not concern the pnblic.
No Cause for Reduction.
A prominent politician to-day said:
This movement will, il persisted in to the
bitter end, in all probability produce dis.
astrous results to the Republican party, and
ultimately to the protective system" Hon.
VIM. Mckinley, OF the Eighteenth Ohio
district writes that he does not believe
reduction of wages to be necessary and
says: IL hope the manufacturers will not
insist on any such thing. They are doing
we'll; the future is full of promise the
demand is likely TO be great; there has in
tervened no cause for a reduction OF wages
unless the new tariff law be such cause.
Excepting as to steel rails, there has been
but small reduction of duties in the metal
schedule. was opposed to even that re-
duction, but | cannot figure out how it
can be converted intoa cause for material
reduction of wages
The First Notification.
PITTSBURGH, May l9.-This afternoon
Dilworth, Porter & Co., railroad spike
manufacturers, employing 900 men, noti-
fed their employees that work would be
suspended at once, until the reduction Of
wages proposed by the iron manufaC'
turers of the West is accepted. Mem
bers of the firm state that they
consider the strike after June lst inevita
BILE, and that as they have large stocks,
suspension may as well begin now as two
weeks hence. Their action is regarded inn
portant as it shows that the manufacturers
are determined TO enforce the reduction OF
wages.