Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-06-12
KAILERs AND FEEDERS.
A Rumor of Trouble Between tina
Two Classes.
An interview in Which the Cause of 0issat-
isfaction is Set Forth---0thtr
Iron News.


trouble between the nailers and their feed
ers have been floating about some of the
personss engaged in scattering the reports
broadcast even going SO tar as to say that
the mills could not be started up if every
manufacturer in the West should sign the
scale at once. With view of ascertainiug
what foundation, if any, there was for these
stories, REGISTER reporter yesterday hailed
South Sids nailfeeder and asked what
was the exact nature of the alleged difficult
ty. After some hesi:ancy the ironWOrker
said:
"The trouble is in regard to apprentices.
One clause in the laws enacted by the lately
fc:mei Nailers Union reads, in effect, that
no apprentices shall be taken other than
THE SONS OF WORKING NAILERs.
That you see, forever shuts out a feeder
from advancement, and makes the mailing
business, with its high wages, hereditary in
the households of the present members of
the nailers organization, while with US to
be feeder once is to be feeder always.
Naturally we kick"
How did you folks hear Of this clsuse?'
"Well, it was by the merest accident. The
thing was printed in one of the uptown Of
fees and a friend Of a Bsllaire mailer, who
is of literary turn of mind, sent q copy
down there in the hope he might be inter
ested in its contents"
"And was hep"
"You can bet your life be was. He gave
the thing away with considerable prompt
ness, and the result was meetings of feeders
here and down there, and within few days
in Pittsburg also, and thus originated the
demand that three per cent. Of the feeders
be taught to grind every year"
"And that will be insisted onY
You bet it will, and if we don't get what
we want there will be mighty few nails Gu,
in this vicinity this summer. The feeders
don't object to anything right and proper,
but the nailerS ought 10 know when they
get enough. Our men are not all organ
ICED as yet, but our lodges are filling up,
and we will make decided stand for our
rights"
THE NAILERs AND THE AMALGAMATED.
Concerning the alleged desire of the nail
ers to re-enter the Amalgsmsted Asso
citation, the officers at the Association head,
quarters in Pittsburg had nothing to say,
according to yesterdays Pittsburg papers,
other than that they would be welcomed
back should they see fit to come. The
Commercial Gazette said
Among the nallers themselves there was
a diversity of opinion. Some denied the
matter in full, while others left the impres.
sion, Notwithstanding the denial, that there
was more truth In the matter than
they cared to have known at present.
Messrs. Joseph J. Davies and Thomas Hof
man, both nsilers and officers of the local
lojges here, said that such move was news
10 them and that they had heard nothing
about it before reading it in the papers
They were in position, they continued, to
know if such movement was contemplated
and they had.
HEARD NOTHING ABOUT 1T.
They thought, however, that the story had
originated among the nsilers of the Wheel
ing district and was for the purpose Of
frightening the manufacturers there who
had made promises which they now refused
to keep.
Another mailer who wished his name
kept secret, said when questioned concern
ing the statement The main facts of the
article are true, but | disiked the one
statement that the United Nailers were
begging to be taken back. The move to
leave the Amalgamated Association was
nearly unanimous and if we have made a
mistake we have vet to find it out. don't
know anything about the movement spoken
Of, but | cannot say that
Is 1T NOT TRUE.
1t may be fact"
Another gentleman who is in position
to know said: II know undoubtedly that
overtures have been made by some at least
of The United Nailers looking to reunion
with the Amslgsmsted Association. The
nailers are not so much the dupes of the
manufacturers as they are Of Hersey Lodge,
at Belsire. That lodge was promised that
their scale would be signed without delay if
they would withdraw from the Amslga-
mated Association.
The members of the lodge went to work
and told the other nsilers in that district
that all the manufacturers had promised to
sign the scale if new organization were
formed. The nailers believed Hersey Lodge
and withdrew from the assoc alton. Now
the only scale signed is the one affecting
Hersey Lodge and the others are out in the
cold. 1t resolves itself merely into ques-
ton of whether the United Nailers will long
er remain dupes of one lodge"
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