Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-07-29
THE NEW NAIL MAKERS.
Hew the Situation Looked Yester-
day Among the Mills.
The Belmont Factory Opens Up With Fif-
teen Feeders at Work on Machines
---The Riverside to
Start To-day.

The situation in nail circles has become
the talk Of the tawn, and is discussed with
the hyeliest interest by women as wei as
men. II q knot of men Is observed stand.
ing on o corner, il . pretty generally be
guessed, and rightly, too, that whether the
course pursued BY the feeders is for the
best or whether il is not, is being discussed
by item
A feeder said to q reporter yesterday: "If
the Dailers had given us any inimation
mp till last Monday that they would do
right by US, we would not have taken this
step. and even now I should be n in favor
Of dropping the matter itthey offered to
make any reasonable concessions to az. /
am not in
FAVOR OF TAKING H sTEr,
but we have nothing to look forward to
even should the nailers gain their end, and
an we have no money ahead some OF rs are
compelled TO 60 to work to keep our fami'
lies from starving. There Is one point that
does not seem to be generally understood In
the agreement between Us and the manu-
fscturers, and that is that the seventeen
cent rate Is to hold good for one
year, before any reduction can be
made, which Will prevent any of the manu-
facturers from pulling the price down again
| during that period. Again, O feeder not
belonging to the Union will not be allowed
to take a machine, and any feeder running
more than one machine, or a mailer who may
come to work viii be compelled to pay. the
feeders three-6fths for cutting hot, and
oNE-HALF FOR COLI NAILS.
If the rule is not observed we will refuse
to work. We took into our union the other
night an old mailer who worked in the Bel
mont twenty-five years ago and he will take
machines soon. .
Another feeder was asked if they would
drop out now, if the nsilers agreed to their
proposition.
mo" said he, ut is too late now. The
agreement has been signed for one year
and we propose to see it through, if it takes
| all summer and part of the winter. 1t will
soon be seen whether there is 80 awfully
much in the mailing trade"
Several nailers were seen, but they had
nothing to say in regard to the matter, ex-
cept that n remarked:
"Well, this thing has been talked OF often;
ow there is q chance to see whether there
u ANYTHING or any science in our trade. II
might as well be tested now, and from the
hare things are assuming
THEY INTEND TO TEST IT."
The reporter during the afternoon dropped
u tie Belmont factory and found about a
'czen feeders at work on as many machines.
They were engaged in getting the machines
in running order, and were succeeding
pretty well as far as the scribe was
able TO Judge. The factory will
start up this morning with
about fifteen men at work and others will
be taken on gradually, as is practicable. -Four
cold and eleven hot nsA machines will be
in operation, the majority Of the latter being
eight penny, and the former three penny,
Manager Reister Is giving the boys what
assistance they need.
The Riverside nailers took their tools
away Yesterday morning in express wagons,
&c, not one, as far as conld be learned,
signifyiug their intention to return to work
AT THE MANUFACTURERS SCALE.
The factory, it is said, will resume to to-day
With six machines in operation, run also by
feeders. 1t will be several days, however,
in this factory, as well as
he other, before things can be gotten into
satisfactory shape, as new grindstone plates,
nippers, scrspers and other necessary tools
must be procured. The feeders do not ex-
press such a willingness to go to work in
the Riverside, on account Of some clause In
the agreement that does not give as much
satisfsc ion as those made by tbs other
mills.
Fifteen men were at work yesterday in
the Benwood factory. Most Of the boys
only met with ordinary success. Twelve
Kegs had been cut up to three o'clock yeSter'
day sfternooa, and only about six kegs in
condition to ship away. However, the boys
are making q desperate effort.
TO MASTER THE MACHINES.
1t is reported on good authority that two
bead stones we're so badly broken yesterday
| that they would have to be scrsped over.
The accident is q bad one, and there are
several reports extant ss to what caused
the broken beads.
At the La Belle mill a notice was posted
yesterday notifying the nsilers to take
away their tools by tonight, unless they de-
sired to return to work. 1t is understood
that the factory will be opened up 10 the
feeders IN Monday next, when ten ortWelve
viii make q start
The top mill also posted up q notice yes
rerday notifying the heaters that their serv-
iees were no longer needed, and one to the
nailers stating that if they did not wish to
return to WORK at the manufacturers scale
their tools must be
TAKEN OFT TO DAY.
The factory win probably commence opsr.
atoms one day this week, with how many
feeders is not known.
At Bellaire yesterday sixty-two machines
were ct work, thirty of these being self
feeders, the balance were fed by the ~nailers,
with probably one or two feeders. As far
Is could be ascertained the feeders down
there have expressed no intention ofcoming
to Wheeling to take machines as reported
they would Said Q mailer yesterday:
THE manufacturers say they cannot
make any money by paying our scale Of
prices. II that is q fact / would like some
one to tell me why the Bellaire mill is run.
ming as many machines as it is and willing
to run more. I hardly think they would
.be running If they were losing money, or
fla
COULD NOT BE MADE
on the nails. The Bellsire manufacturers
know as much about running q mill as any
one else, and III bet a good deslthey would
not run il it was taking money out Of their
pockets."