Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-08-16
THE MILLS.
The Result Of Yesterdays Rspor-
torial Researches.
The Feeders Still Pegging Away---COm-
y promise Chat---A Chattanooga
Nailer---Amalgama-
ton Notes.

The Belmont, Riverside, Is Belle and
Top mill factories worked yesterday till
noon, when they shut down, as is the usual
custom with the mills since time immemor-
ial. The forces at work at these factories
have not been materially increased during
the last few days, on account Of the scarcity
of nail plate. The three men who laid OF
Friday at the Riverside for divers reasons
resumed the charge of their machines yes
terdsy morning.
The proposed
JOINT MEETING
Of the nail feeders OF Wheeling, Bellaire and
Martins Ferry, this afternoon, is viewed
with suspicion by the local branch of the
Feeders Union, and it is unlikely they will
attend, for tear of being coerced into the
views and wishes Of the other lodges, who
have accepted the terms Of the recent com
promise and are anxious TO persuade the
Wheeling loig', which sands alone,
also to come out aud do like
wise. A prominent nail feeder
sal to q reporter: 1--WE do think it is neces-
ssry for Us to be present at that meeting
tomorrow, and hold any conference with
the outside men, as we have already shown
our stand by rejecting the compromise
offered ne. It was stated in your paper IN a
recent issue that the La Belle feeders were
REFUSED ADNITTANCE
at the meeting Saturday evening week
ago. We refused the men applications for
membership on the ground that they were
not trustworthy. In the feeders strike
several years ago for the cold iron clause
the LaBelle feeders duped their compan'
ions and went to work, and yet these men
are surprised at our actions in refusing to
associate with them 10 our lodge
The Ohio Valley Assembly seems to be
also looked upon with distrust by the feed,
ers Another feeder said to q reporter last
night:
IL tail to see the jurisdiction the Assembly
has in settling this trouble, as both orgsni-
cations do not belong to it. The feeders
DO, to be sure and were trouble to arise
between two lodges of feeders, the Assem-
bly, would have the right to adjust it But
in the case of trouble between nsilers aud
f eders, fail to see their authority, as there
is no utilization between the nailers and
the Assembly"
The news that
A CHATTANOOGA MAILER
hsd arrived in the city Friday evening with
the intention OF taking q machine at the
Riverside factory, created some excitement
among the nsilers yesterday. 4 deputa-
ton of nAllers secured possession OF the
stranger, who is named Msddux, and did their
b, st to persuade him not to go in, With whs,
effect will not be known till Monday morn
ing, as Maddux keeps his own counsel. A
reporter interviewed the gentleman at the
Stamm House yesterday afternoon. MsdduX
stated that he had come TO this city with
the intention of taking q machine, but what
he would now do he was undecided He
had been hemmed in by crowd of nsilers
during the entire day. Persussions, threats
followed By an attempted personal assault
oy an intoxicated heater, had been used to
keep him rom going into the factory.
81 Was one OF the Chattanooga nailers
who went to Steubenville aud am
USED TO THAT KIND or THING,
said be. "Up there my companions were
scared By threats
President Hill stated that Maldux would
re given a twenty penny machine at thr
Riverside factory, and ridiculed the idea Of
his teirg m o. ed by the nsilers. Mad
dux slso stated that he was a representative
of Southern workmen and that half dozen
Chattanooga men were willing to follow il
his footsteps in case he was satisfied With
the outlook at Wheeling.
IL AuALGANATED CIRCLES.
The Sheet Rollers Convention held al
important meeting last night with CLOSED
doors. AS the nesting did not adjourn Till
late hour aud the members were all reti
cent, there was no direct information Sc
cured OF the business transacted.
Il is announced that the Amslgsms.ed
Association has decided to tsks up q sys.
tenn Of weekly reports embracing STATE
ment OF the number of men idle and a.
work, ard the stocks Of iron, rails, &c S.
far as the former is concerned, it is per
fectly legitimate inquiry, but when the repre-
seutatives Of the workmen undertake work
of the kind mapped out in other directions
they are tresGing on dangerous grouEd be-
cause they are likely to arrive at incorrect
and misleading figures. They may sue
coed in getting at fair estimate of the
sto> Ks at the mills, but it is difficult TO uu
derstaLd how they could, without the con
ssnt Of the manufacturers, obtain any idea
Of the amounts held in storehouses, agents
hands, &c. The natural result wopid be
hat the weekly returns would BE- srroneou'
and generally too low.