Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-12-14
LABOR NEWS.
The Latest Iadastrid latell-
esacs
so1H At HOME AND ABROAD.
WAT wskmes ars Saying and De'as---
koyemeWss Of Manufacturers
and he Stste OF the
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to the weeks.

what u Bsfng Done ~ Ow Midss-A W
/ to the works.
Slowly bat surely tho work Of restricting
production in the nsiImaking industries Of
this city is being carried s'ong. Last week
the Belmont mill, which makes both IRON
and steel nails, only worked four days, and
they do not propose to work more than that
time per week until the price Of nails ad-
vanees or the masket reviyes so that the
supply can be exhausted as made. AT the
Ia Belle mill, where steel mills ere now
made exclusively, they are not making full
time, though this is due partially to'the iscs
that enough nail plate can not orrather has
not. been made to keep. all the nail me-
chimes running steadily. 1t the Riverside
mill, where steel nails alone are made,
everything is on full force and there seems
to be no indication of stop. This mill
certainly has been very fortunate, for from
the commencement Of their making steel
nails up to the present time they have been
running steadily and getting away with all
the nsiIs made BY their largo factory.
The Hammond selffeeding nail machine
is a perfect success, and the Belmont Mill
Company have ordered ten additional ones,
which will be put in operation as soon as
they can be made.
Everything closed at the pottery yester
day excepting the decorating room, which
has large number Of orders ahead.
The glass houses in this city are not now
directly effected by the strife between the
manufacturers and worEmen across the
river, though Of course should the manufac.
turers there succeed and make the men
work by the piece" inutead Of move"
Wheeling workmen will naturally have Q
fall into the same groove eventually. tits
generally believed, however, that the manu-.
tacturers here are satisfied with the present
system, if it could be modified to a certain
extent. One thing is certain: the workmen
here hold the proprietors in high esteem,
and the same can be said OF the proprietors
toward their workmen. This feeling will
naturally cause them to come together and
amicably adjust any differences, should they
| arise.
Among the planning mills business is now
very dull. They are working about one
fourth of their forces, aud that number only
about threequsrter time. Every year, how.
ever, at this time business is extremely
dull in this branch Of business, and it To-
variably brightens up immediately after the
| holidays. 1t is expected that business will
take the same turn this year, and the owners
Of these industries believe it will do so.
The Top mill will resume work in all de.
partm ents tomorrow after an idleness Of
several weeks. The officials claim the mill
will still cut iron nails exclusively, though
Dame Rumor's tongue wsgged lively last
week about this mill intending to cut steel
nails.
Cox L Morrison's boiler works are work
Ing full crew ofmen, principally, however,
on repair work.
Rodley Bros.'s wagon factory is doing
very little work now. Only about one.
fourth OF the men are employed, who are
not working over three-quarter time.