Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-07-31

nothing of the encounter until it happened,
and tsy il wa entirely o personal affair be
tween the two men who participated in IL
President Weir Of the United Nailers and
heaters Vas in town yesterday holding .
consultation with Warden John A. Brown
Dennis Mccoy, the manager OF the Bay
view, via, mill, was in town yesterday. In
his conversation he gave out that that cou-
paDy had no intention Of trying the expert
msnt now in progress IN Wheeling and
about to be tried BY the LAughlin mill.
THERE WERE " FEEDERS
from Hollidaysburg, Pa, in town yesterday
looking for work, but when the situation
was explained to them they passed on, pre-
ferriDg to look further than to wait.
1t Is reported that some radical changes
will be made at the Standard mill soon, but
their nature and extent could not positively
be sscertained.
The nail plate roll hands of the LaughGn
mill have called q meeting OF all nail plate
roll hands of Wheeling and vicinity to take
place in the Town Hall at Martins Ferry
10 night at 7:30 O'Clock. The meeting is
called for the purpose of discussing the
questions ofso much importance now pend
ing before the mill men in general in this
vicinity. This is q good move, as the roll
hands have never met in o body, and their
real sentiment in these matters is unknown
to each other.
o IT LOOKS IN PIrTsBURG.
The following in regard to the situation in
Pittsburg is taken from the Chronicle-Tele-
graph OF yesterday:
"The nail manufacturers have evidently
not yet abandoned the thought of settling
their differences with their ~nsilers, and as yet
no effort has been made to start any of the
machines in this district with the feeders.
II leaked out this morning that Shoenberger
4 Co. have asked the committee Of nsilers
10 hold q conference with them with a view
to settle the scale question. The meeting
will be held at 8 o'clock this afternoon. II
has been reliably sscertained thstthe repre-,
sentatives OF the firm will epdeayor to effect
an arrangement: by which the nailers shall
resume work at the proposed reduction Of
twenty.four per cent on the present schedule
and the additional twenty-five per cent re-
duction On the selffeeding machines. The
nahers' committee, anticipating this, arrived
at a decision before the conference was held,
which is that they are
STILL FIRM \ UNITED
in their demands for the old scale as pre-
sebted originally to the manufacturers.
A mailer of unquestionable reliability was
interviewed this morning in regard to the
effect the action of the Wheeling feeders
will have upon the future Of the nailers.
Up to to-day the Benwood works" he said.
have had fourteen feeders in place Of the
nailers running the machines. They would
commence on one machine, and as soon as
it was run down then they would have to
abandon it and 90 to another. The reason
of this is that when the different works are
shut down the nsilers left all the machines
in good order. 1t is easy enough to feed
The machines, but these feeders cannor
grind them. Consequently as soon as eaci
/ machine needs grinding, then it ID a5an.
doped.'
Il have reliably heard" he continued
that FIVE feeders will be put to work to day
at the Riverside works, ten at Lsughlins
works at Martins Ferry and a number al
the Belmont works. Now, as l said, they
can run these machines until they neeG
grinding, but it is my belief that in the
course Of q week or two at most, you vii.
End that this plan
DOES NOT WORK SUCCESSFULLY,
and that the mills will again be idle. The
nailers are not at all worried concerning
the result and are still firm in their demand
for the scale as presented by them. As to
whether the manufacturers will start With
the feeders here, I,of course cannot say.
though if the men can be secured l believe
the attempt will be made. don't believe
though, that the Pittsburg feeders will &c.
cept such a proposition"
How will the action of the feeders affect
the future relations between themselves and
the nailersT'
THAT is the question to be answered
hereafter" said the gentleman with a smile.