Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-07-23
THE BElLaIRE FEEDERS
Hold a Meeting and ahsts rhsir
Demands
The Factory to Go On TO.morOw---Ihe
Martins Ferry meeting---Rumors
Afoat - Manufacturers
Meeting at Gin
cinnxti.

1t is rNo6sSle that the nail feeders strike
is virtually at an end, and 1t Is thought that
they will join the !nailers in sheir strike in
sead of working % sinst them.
Last nigbsSmeet:ng of feeders was held
ut Bellaire and II was decided that the
scale offered By the manufacturers was not
one that would be psoftable for the feeders
IN any section to accept, and that as far as
they we're concerned they would all be will
ing to return to sok hopping n.ilsat
THE BoRHEs RATES.
Meeting Wheeling feeder lasts7ening,
o. REGISTER reporter asked him what he
thought of the action Of the Bellai1e feed
ers, and what effect it woald have upon' the
Wheeling feedere. Said he:
"Well, the Bellai,e- feeders were the'frst
to inaugurate the strike for the three per
cent business, and now THAI the feeders in
the 9th er mills where thsmsaufacturershsge
not signed the scale are likely to take the
Jobs of the nsilers, the7' fear they will be
getting the worst of the strike, so they have
succumbed."
"Do you think that is The only reason FOR
their astionY'
? "0br well, to tell you tletruth, that is
A MERE SUPERSTITION
of mine- and only Just suggested it be-
cause it entered my head'at the moment.
Probably they never took that view of the
matter st all. Anyway, am almost GER
tain that the feeders in thIscity will not &C
accept the jobs of the naiers and do not
think they should have done so, even
had. the Bellaire feeders not
decided to return to, work. We
might have accepted the machines, if We
were sure we would never rogret it, but five
had done 80 that time would surely come
when we would have been sorry for it"
$50 you do not think that the Wheeling
feeders will 90 in as nailers%
Il do not. There are oRly few out Of
the may who wish to 60 in, and
THEY WOULD SOON RBE IT,
as some of them have not fed machines long
enough ~ to know much about
them. Then they have come
to realize that the manufac-
turers scale is so constructed that after
while they might not make % much as they
do feeding, besides inhalirg several grind.
stones and swallowing two or three bars of
STEEL"
It is understood from good authority that
the feeders at Bellaire will all 60 in about
Friday and the factory viii be started up
full tilt. The steel plant, which had been
closed down, will also start up Monday.
In speaking to REGISTER reporter yes
terday evening President Weir stated that
he could assert on good authority that the
Jefferson mill at Steubeavllle and several
Others" would
START UP IN A FEW DAYS,
and it is to be presumed, although he did
not say so, that it would be on the t.rms Of
the nailers. 1t is hoped that the informa-
ton is based on q solid foundation.
About three hundred men, employees OF
the Etna and Standard iron works, held q
meeting in Martins Ferry last evening, the
object being to discuss and act upon the
notices posted up in the mills, as printed in
Tuesday mornings REGISTER. After auite
an extended session the voice of the meet
ing determined that the men stand firm in
their demands and make no concessions
to the manufacturers. A com
mittee was also appointed to take. charge Of
and distribute the strike fund received from
time to time from the Annals aaated Asso-
citation. Things look
IN GOOD SHAPE
over there for an extended kckout unless a
briskness springs up in the iron market
A number of the manufacturers in this
section left for Cincinnati, where meeting
Of the Western Nail Association was held
Yesterday.