The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-01-16
GLASS AND IRON.
MANUFACTURERS AND eMpLoyEs.
The Talk About Increased Changes. for
Calling Stetl Nniis-whnt the work.
men Say-The Coming Meeting
OF Glass Manufacturers.

A great deal has been said In the papera OF
this vicinity about the proposed increase Of
wages for cutting steel nails when their
manufacture Is commenced. Among the
publ!catlo nB on tho sublso! Is the following
from The Pittsburgh Commercial Gaie'ts Of
yesterday:
'rne ohio Valley workers who b,long to
he Amalgamattd Association have resolved
not 10 cut steel malta for the same money as
Iron nails, ard that this will result In q strike
ssemg 10 be without doubt All tbs Hint
glass manufactures have also organized and
Will inAlst on the same moves Tor the same
money In this valley as Is now paid In Pitts
burgh, and this, too, will bring about another
strike, II Insisted OH this spring, SO that The
present outlook indicates that the Ohio Nal'
Icy, usually black with smoke Of busy manu-.
factories, will be f'sa from dust and dirt, and
the spring OF 1884 open with forebodings Of
anything Else than comfort 10 the thousands
OF mechanics and lab orers who make this val.
Icy their home"
An ISTELLlGEsCEI reporter recently asked
IL prominent mailer what the position OF the
naileis was on the nistter OF eating steel
nails. ave will cross that bridge when We
20. 10 It," was bis reply. He admitted that
nasleFs, but said that no action lad 0 -
taken. However, 1t IL possible that slight
IL inereascd price will DO demanded, as the
grinding will be moro laborlous for steel than
iron nail plate.
A manufacturer vas asked what the Views
OF the mill owners were His reply was
very similar 10 that Of the mailer. 5iid lie,
"rnere IL On old aud true saying, 'Suihcient
unto the day IL tho I'll thereof When that
matter Is reached We will be- Obliged 10 act on
it." And further he reiu,ed 10 say.
TIE GLASS TRADE.
lhe clause quoted above concerning the
glass manufacturers Is also Just little pre-
district have concluded 10 organizs into an
association, they have taken no action which
gives grounds for predictions OF q strike.
The window glass manufacturers and the
tottle makers OF the country, meet at the
Metropolitan hotel, New York, to-day.
| These are the semi-1nnuAl sessions 10 discuss
trade and compare notes. The p!esent din.
Guilty with the window glass workers will BIZ
the absorbing topic OF discussion. A win
dow glass blower OF this ylciEity was asked
tho other day II the worksin email inland
towns, which have been built since the i1-
auguration OF the present lockout, would
suilec materially whfn the troubles were ad-
iusted: Il don't know said he, "but the
TACT OF the matter Is the manufacturers have
acted 50 badly with their men, and lost 30
much trade by their slubbornncss, that II
| will BIO hard 10 regain under the best Of cir.
cumstanees. Should man in an inland
town, don't care how small It might be,
oller nc years steady work would sign
articles With him NJ once. And this is the
lee n iTYlp nj a lsy NJ a r..
men in this CITY,"
woRKNES GOING WEST.
The Bellslre Tribune ssys: About six weeks
ago Mr.. Carlton Newman, president OF the
San Francisco and Pacific Glass Works, locat.
ed San Francisco, Cali. was in this neigh
boshood, and after watching with interest the
operations OF the various branches Of glass
man ufacturing, hes concluded to introduce
tho flint glass Industry into the Golden
State. For the past twenty years the
seuts has been running two bottle
OF them into furnace for the manufacture
I OF pressed novelties, drug ware, chemical
ware, and also fine blown bar goods. In or.
der to make bis arrangements complete while
here, MIR. Netmau secured the services Of
! Mr.. VIM. thinner, Of this city, as superin-
terdsnt OF the Institution. All these &C.
quainted with Mr.. thinner know that
tho choice WAS wiee one, and
| II good management will contrib.
| ute to the success OF the now Western indus
Try, that Is already assured. Next Monday
Immer star;s for the scene Of his future
! labors, and in about six weeks after will be
followed by sixteen Of the best factory hands
that can be furnished by the various houses
in Bellstre, Wheeling and Bridgeport. An
engravcr and an rss,rter will also be taken
Tbs families OF those who intend to follow
them will do SO about the middle OF the sum.
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