Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-05-09
LOOKING BRIGHTER.
A Pittsburgh Iron Firm Reports
Business That Way.
READY TO SIGN The SCALE FOR $3.50.
The Situation in the hahOning Valley Not
So Encouraging at Present-West-
ern Nail Association Reg
ulaf Meeting.

PITTSBURGH, May SIT is said that our
iron firm on the north side Of the Monon-
gahela river can see no reason for the re-
duction of wages and are willing to sign
the scale for S. so per ton. 1t is thought
that If strike does come there are a num-
Der Of mills in this city that will keep on
working. Among these are the several steel
mills that continued operations during the
last strike. Some of the mills now report a
good trade, with orders plentier than they
have been for some months past.
The Mahoning Valley.
CLEVELAND. o., May S.-GIeat excitement
exists throughout the Mahoning Valley
over the present situation of the iron mar
ket. At Youngstown, Niles, and several
other points number Of rolling mills have
shut down, and business men generally
along the Mahoning river feel greatly de-
pressed. Manager Williams, of the big iron
firm OF Brown, Bonnell s Co., two of whose
mills at Youngstown have already shut
down, said to-day: The trouble is owing
to the condition of
The Iron Market
we Will llAA Jull az p4.pO,
purchasers say they can get iron for Sl.S0.
We have plenty OF orders if We would fill
them at that price, but iron cannot be sold
at these figures without ruin to the manu-
faCturers. The outlook is anything but en-
Couraging. The wsrkmen seem de-
termined TO resist any reduction. and il
they do all the mills will be compelled to
close. We would not stop at all if we
could get our price for iron, and will uu-
rlneaA f;ll ralnrfinr, 20
made in the cost of manufacturing or the
price of iron advances. We are refusing at
any price to be filled after June l.
western Nail Association MeetIug.
PrrTsBURGH May S.-To.morrow is the
time set for the regular meeting OF the
Western Nail Association. At the last
meeting the stoppage OF the mills which
was to have taken place yesterday, was
indefinitely postponed, and the chances are
that the mills will continue without fur
ther interruption. 1t appears that the
iobbers in conjunction with eastern man
ufacturerS, have in a great measure de-
feated the object which the Western men
had in view when they ordered and car
ried out the several stoppages, as nails
| are now selling at prices below the card
rate.
The Mirers'A Appeal 10 Court.
PIrTSRrRGH. May S.-Secretary Flannery,
of the Miners Association, reports the
status Of the strike as still unchanged.
| This morning the petition referred to by
| the miners officials several days ago was
| fled In Common Pleas No. l. 1t was signed
by fifty miners, and prayed that trade
tribunal might be appointed by the court
! for the settlement of the present difficulty
in this district According to the pro.
visions Of the bill the operators have sixty
| DAYS time wherein TO file objections to the
| appointment of the tribunal.
PaddIers Suspended.
! YOUNGSTOWN o., May S.-By throwing
! off of twelve pudding furnaces in Brown,
| Bonnell x Co.'S, No. mill yesterday 400
men are idle. The shut down is on &C.
| count of a lack of orders at fair prices,
something about which all the loungs-
/ town firms complain. manufacturer
| said tonight in speaking of the iron trade
| lit has reached that point where buyers
| are debating prices, and when that occurs
! the operator may as well shut down, unless
! he desires TO lose money by running. Pur-
! ChaSers write if you want to place our Or
| der at such a price do so and advise us at
! once. There may be better trade after q
while, but at present it is decidedly dull
! and there is no denying the fact BuSi-
ness is greatly unsettled by reason OF the
| scale question, and neither side offer to
! predict what the outcome will be.
Prosiitutipg Honest Labor.
! Troy, \. Y, May S-A Plattsburg firm
| closed contract for labor of $50 convicts
in the Clinton prison for FIVE years at
thir,y-tiye cents per day, to be employed
| in manufacturing clothing for the whole
sale trade. One hundred tailors will be
transferred from other prisons to Clinton.
| Three hundred sewing machines will be
used.
They Are Right.
TuRoNTO, May S.-The union plasterers
have struck for higher wages and refuse to
work with non union men.