Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-11-14

never exceeded twenty per cent
That is, mailer can make twenty per cent
more BIZ using self feeders than BY employ
ing hsnd.feeSers. ] beg your pardon again,
sir; you made no such claim. Your claim
waa that "the capacity of machines fed
automatically seldom exceeds the capacity
Of those led by hand more than 70 per
cent" Don't retire behind the accommo-
dating reporter when you are cornered'
please. Stand to your assertions, or stop
making them. / am tired following you
from "piIlar to post" Ny position is Just
where il was when this controversy began,
namely--that selffeeders are more pSohss
bic to the mailer today. after Is per cent Is
deducted. than hsnd-feeding. / endeay-
cred TO prove this by figures, and showed
that So 80 per week more could be made
ON tull 4d lob. You disputed it and
published figures showing latter correction
q balance Of 81 cents on your side. l
nubished another table based on your own
estimates and figures, showing $3.4 on my
aide. You now gay the reporter misurder-
stood you. Well, why didn't you correct
vour statement in Thursday mornings pa
per? Were you Satisfied to reat your case
on q false statement provided no one
picked you up" on IT'D You now say
and / do hope you will stay there-"W,e
paw Tpsidl one-6tth for tending sell iced
inc machines and twoffths for machines,
fed by hand, therefore we gain one-ffth, or
twenty per cent" Is that all you gain
That is the gain in what you pay out-no'
in what YOU receive. How much greater
are YOUR receipts from q foil 4d job auto
maticsIly fed than hand fed2 About twenty
kegs per week is the gainin product, which
al 555Ic per key amounts to-. ............. sll )
Less Is per
/ ess oue-hfth for tend ng-................-.
n,-,,, q rroanc, ,,..,.,...... sS2
So your net gain would be 1924 more thar
twenty per cent, wouldn't itH And $6.2'
is tweaty per cent of S3l. 20; SO your wage
must exceed thus amount per week or you
net gain would be forty per cent.
Mr.. C. continues thus: If the seal!
offered by the manufacturers is adopted
feeding nails by hand will be thing o
The past" and warns feeders TO "be not de
ceiyed." He ssys this, knowing that sell
feeders are lot a success on large sizes
But why should the feeder be uneasy, whel
he has become the mailer Of the future
He is shrewd enough TO see the changed
condition OF things, and not silly enough
to refuse to work for . prospective $40
per day because he cannot make ~ O
And then Mr.. c. goes on TO say that tn
manufacturers are "actuated by desir
for revenge" Most of them are actuatet
by a strong desire 10 make their seYers
properties pay some return to the stock
holders for the use Of their money rathe
than to turn all profits over to nsiiers
Nail factories are rot benevolent iDstitu
tons exclusively, although they often rul
when assured Of no profit, snd the employe
are the only ones benefited thereby
he then coca on to say that the manu-
iacturer has crippled the .paddler'
and driven them from our community, an
that the oney formerly earned by then
"is in the pockets of men who spend 1t a
the seashore or in foreign couutries." q
should charge the displacement Of ii
boiler to the march Of progress. No elias
of labor, nor combination of capital, ca
clog the wheels of advancing industry il
this enlightened age without being crushe'
TO atoms. The steel nail came to Us OF
the crest Of the wave, and We had 10 rec
ognize it's coming or be engulfed. Th
assertion that manufacturers introduced
for the purpose of Gripping the puddIer,
} is as foolish Us was the effort to stop its US
BY the low-down English practice Of boy
cotting. There is no use Of "kicBipI
against the pricks." And finally Mr.. E
says: The manufacturers have resolved Il
stand BY these eder.naile.s, and We nav,
resolved that they must 60. The contes
from now on will be on that point. Wage
will be the second consideration.
The manufacturers are bound I,
retain those men now il
their employ by every principle Of justice
and honor, and are morally obligated 6
we'll. To suppose that they would turl
their backs upon these men now, is to cup
pose that our mills are managed by mel
entirely devoid Of business integrity, sense
of Justice, or principles Of honor. 1t vii
not be done-it cannot be done and M
mailer, with q proper appreciation Of thu
situation, will expect it TO be done. II
therefore, as Mr.. Chew asserts, the cues
ton of compensation is waived in favor o.
this, there is nothing to prevent any mailer
or feeder from taking Job wherever be
can get it except false sense Of honor
And how can men plead honor as q rea
son while asking the manufacturer to vic
late ergy principle Of it? Get a ioS
while you can-every day will lessen your
chance. MANUFACTURER.