Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-11-13
SECRETARY CHEW
Replies to the Card of Manufacture"
Printed Yesterday.

Replies to the Card of manufacturer"
Printed Yesterday.
| To he Editor Of The Register:
SIR:-"ManufactGrer' appears in yes
terdsy's issue Of your paper, and takes ad.
vantage Of the Iptelligeacer reporters mis-,
understanding my correction in Wednes.
day issue OF that paper, and also attempts
to tell me do not know what | pay TO
boys for tending selifeeding machines and
hand feeding machines | think am in
position TO know, and that he is not In
my statement to the Intelligencer reporter,
l said that the profits from selfieeders
never exceeded 20 per cent, and the
manufacturers were demanding reduction
of Is per cent. Therefore We would re-
ceiYe pr cent. lass pay and have the
additional labor. This lie plain enough, if
Manufacture" will only see. But none
so blind" &c. We pay one-fitth for tend
ing self feeding machines and two.ffths for
machines fed by hand. Therefore we gain
one fifth, or 20 ger cent. Now in regard
to tue pay for hand feeding, repeat that
two-6fths is the customary price paid for
hand feeding and has been the customary
price in the Wheeling district for cold nails
and the size he mentions in bis table
ideas long as have been making nails.
1t has not only been the customary price,
but the lawful price, and no mailer has
paid more than the above prices while we
were connected with any other order
or since the formation Of
the present organization. The
difference in the price for feeding hot and
cold nails was established by the old prac-
teal manufacturers themselves. The res-
son given was that if they paid the same
price the men would feed the CE,ail ma.
chimes He ssyG that one.balt will be the
future price for feeding nails by hand |
will say to the feeders, be not deceived. 1.-THE
scale offered by the manufacturers is adopt.
ed, feeding nsils by hand will be thing of
the past, as common sepss and past expe.
gienee ought to tasch you that they will
not employ you when they get the labor
done Is per cent. less by machinery. Their
whole purpose is apparent in the action
of their Association on Wednesday. They
mean to ignore and annihilate organized
labor, regardless Of the Consequences to
our community and the stockholders inter.
ests placed in their hands. They are &C
tuated by the desire for feSeage. They
have crippled the paddler, and nov for the
other branches. Now, what will follow
The puddlsr Is gone. Are the stockbold. !
ers satisfied? Are our citizens satisfied
Il has driven q class Of men from our
whose earnings circulated free.
ly, to the advantage Of our city. This
money earned by the puddler is in the |
pockets of men WHO spend il at the sea |
shore, or In foreign countries. The intro
duction Of the steel nail compelled the invest
ment Of $500 1000 additional in The forge
dead loss. The stock is
forced down in some cases so per cent
without q FIRE in furnace or the tSsping
of wheel,
New look at our own situation. The
men now making nails are making work
hat will iDjure WheeliDgs reputation for
'vtr. The manufacturers have resolved to
tand by these feeder nailers, and we have
esolved that they must 60. The contest
rom now on will be on that point. Wages
I'LL be the second consideration.
NJ. A Crew,
Sec'y U. N, H. & R. A.