Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-08-29
STILL IN TINE DARK.
The Manufacturers Proposition Do.
feated Yesterday
BY the Glass Workers---They Make Prop
osition to the Manufacturers
Which Is Also Re-
iected.

The meeting Of the glass workers to vote
upon the proposition offered them by the
manufacturers, as printed exclusively in
the REGISTER yesterday, was held at Walters
Hall, in the Sixth ward, yesterday morning
at 10 o'clock. Hope had run high all the
morning that the proposition would carry,
but all such hopes were dashed to the
earth by the report about noon that it had
been defeated.
THE BAD NEWS
spread ike wildfre by telephone and from
mouth TO mouth and soon was being com
nented on by everybody interested on both
sides of the river. Very few men from over
the river were present to vote, some retls-
ing to come because the meeting was held
in Wheeling, others had not heard oft and
sill others could not come. In speaking to
a gentleman well informed on the matter,
az to the cause Of the defeat of the PROPOSE
ton he said:
1.-THE matter Just stands this way: Wheel
ing really should have had
NO VOICE IN THE SETTLEMENT
as all The factories are over the river. The
men employed at the LsBelle works, which
factory has not run for two years past and
has no immediate prospect of doing 30, all
live in Wheeling. They belong to Local
Union No. 9, and this fact gives them and
all other members of that union a
voice in the matter. Now 1t is
alleged that the factories OF Hobbs, Brocku-
nier & Co., and the Central, allowed their
men, who are members of this Union, to
Law of Yesterday morning in order that they
might attend in body and vote down the
proposition as it wonld be for
VARIOUS REASONS TO THEIR INTEREST
to have it defeated. What their reasons are,
any one acquainted with the situation can
essily observe. Anyway they succeeded in
defeating it by somewhat of majority, and
the matter has returned to its former IN
satisfactory shape"
The men met in the afternoon and drew
up the following proposition, part of it being
the same as the manufacturers
THE woREMEN's PROPOSITION.
1--WE agree to settle the questions between
our workmen and ourselves on Pittsburg
terms and prices-all work to be paid for
0y the piece at same price per hundred as
Plttsburg manufacturers pay far the same
lass of ware-only good ware to be count
/ d. Every workman shall be docked only
or the bad ware caused by his own work
napship. And we further agree that in no
| case shall workman or a committee OF
| L L. 20 tnfa in
management of the compsnys factory or
business, but shall expect recognition Of
he factory committee enforcing the laws Of
our organization on it's members. We fur
iber agree in your proposition pertaining to
| arbitration committee, which reads as FOL
lows: If our workmen claim we are mis-
taken as to any of the Pittsburg prices OF
rules, and so inform this association In
Sriling, we will agree to submit such claims
! o an arbitration committee Of three, one
mt mber to be chosen from our ranks, one
| form yours, and the third
to be chosen by these two
and to be governed by the report OF the
msiority Of this arbitration committee as to
shat Pittsburg prices and rules are in the
cskes wherein our workmen' claim we are
| wrong. Such clslms are not 10 De Drought
before the Association oftener than once il
each calendar month
THIS PROPOSITION
which was signed by local unions Nos 8
Is and 81, was pre- scented to the committee
Of manufacturers and they held a short
meeting last evening and decided not to &C
cept it, and TO hold out for the acceptance
Of their proposition.
| This throws the matter back into arsther
hopeless light unless the glassworkers over
he rlver take the matter into their own
hands and accept the manufacturers prop,
osition, as the feeling over there seems to
ne mostly in favor Of taking that action.
A manufacturer said last night that unless
the matter was settled inside Of several
days nothing would be done until the first
of the year.