Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-04-07
BECOMING COMPLICATED.
Several New Phases In tbs Iron
Iroubls Appear.
Much Comment on the Outcome Of Next
Saturdays Scale Convention 10
Pittsburg---Various Opinions
on the Matter.

OF geneIdl COMMENT Among INC HOn VIVA
ers in this city, and in conversation with a
member of the Amalgamated Association
Yesterday, q reporter asked him what effect
be thought the secession ofthe.nailers would
have on the Association.
"Wsll, it is a very hard matter to tell you
anything about il, as not many OF US are IN
q position to give any information. Fur
Their events will tell more than any n
could now"
"Do you think the Amalgauated Asso-
citation will hold together in this cityY'
lob, yes, | think so. You see q great
many of the nail feeders are members of it,
and the boilers still belong, of course, bat
their employment being to q great extent
practically done away with, will of course
have a weakening influence uponit, as in all
likelihood if they see that the steel nail is to
be the nail, they will no longer have any
use for the Association, or vice versa"
There is some talk of the nailers associ-
alton intending to make a proposition to
to the heaters and rollers to join their asso-
citation. Is that q factT'
II have heard some talk to that effect,
but probably no such action will be taken
for some time yet and these men will still
continue as members OF the Amalgamated
Association. However, you can Just say
that the association will still hold on in this
city" ,
Other members of the association seemed
to think that the action of the scale committee
in Pittsburg, if they still held out for the
present price of pudding, would result in a
general strike, but / don't SEQ where much
of q strike will come in in this city, as there
are not many boilers at work here now, and
/ must say that the nailers did a smart
thing in forming an association Of their own
before the scale convention met in Pitts.
burg. Oh. no, / have not heard Of any dis.
satisfaction with President Weihe, aud 10:
myself, l think he is a good man
The committee of FIVE appointed at Sat
urdsys convention of the Amalgamated AS
ISOLATION Lodges of the Plttsburg district,
to draw up 8 formal denial to the published
rumors of dissatisfaction with President
Weihe, met Sunday and reported the fol.
lowing resolutions after referring to the re-
ports OF alleged dissatisfaction:
Resolved, That we, the delegates Of the
A~malgamated Association, in convention
assembled, deny emphatcally that the above
rumors had any foundation in fact.
Resolved, That we hereby reiterate our
complete confidence In the present general
officers OF the association, and pronounce
all reports to the contrary to be the work Of
malicious persons acting without authority
from the association.
10 regard to this, a member Of the Anal
gsmated says:
IL tell you there is dissatisfaction. Weihe
is a good man, but he has not got the manu-
Eacturers down as fine as Jarrett used to
have them. The manufacturers fear Jar.
rett, for he is q power. Weihe has many
friends among the men. / know of no
enemies of his, but this is a crisis in the
Amslgamsted and they need a jarrett to
lead and direct. But he won't take it be
cause they censLred him during the FIVE
months stiike. There is q man who will
be put forward as a candidate for the Presi
dency at the National Convention, and he
is johnson Davis, of Millvale, Pa"
A. NJ. Byers, a prominent Pittsburg iron
manufacturer, says, in regard to the action
of the Association in instructing delegates
to present the old scale:
The men will have to accept a reduc
ton. Not because the iron men say il, but
the state of trade will force an equitable
adjustment of affairs. There has always
been one disadvantage against the iron
men. Some Of them have always been
compelled to run to meet pressing contracts
perfect unit. We met repeatedly, and always
the same result; but now it has come to
lower WAGES or close down. Last fall
the Amslgamated Association could
have strengthened themselves and Won
favor By offering to accept a reduc,
ton. They have not been properly handled.
The trouble is the brains Of the association
is hooted down and voted down by the
ignorant element, which must rule or ruin.
That explanation was given to me once by
Joe Bishop, who was their first President,
He told me he was disguised and that was
why he resigned. John Jarrett, their next
President, told me he felt very much re.
heved after resigning; that it was IN I'M
pleasant Office to hold. He was q reasona-
Die and fair man in q conference. Secre-
tary Martin, though, tries to take snap judg
ment on technicalities. He seems to seek
favor with the rule or ruin ma
jority of his constituents in the order, rather
than ~legislate as Jarrett did. l don't know
Weihe. We can't pay over 81 a ton for
boiling iron. These men surely know that
the East is being built up while we are los,
ing trade. No, they don't mean to make
any concessions. They want all; but they
will get nothing. An organization so arbi
trary cannot live among honest working
men. In the Oliver iron trouble a dozen of
these men kept several hundred laborers out
of work until they got what they could.
Such injustice will not make friends or con-
verts. l am Of the opinion that the days OF
that order are numbered"
interviewed by Pittsburgh Times re
porter, Secretary Martin spoke as follows,
Sunday, on the action Of Saturdays con.
.ven,ion and the secession Of the ~nailers:
81 have no doubt the manufacturers and
the public are disappointed with
the action of the convention, but the men
who were there as delegates were among
the best in the association and were thor.
in earnest when they decided to vote
against accepting any reduction. The vote
was no bluff, but the result Of careful con
sideration."
'0n what the claim for present wage.
in view ofthe depression in trades?'
The men believe that wages are low
and that they would not be benefit
ted by accepting a reduction. We have
earned this BY experience. No matter how
cheap articles are offered for sale they will
OF be bought unless the pubic wants them
II is so with iron. 1t is claimed that iron
Will be sold and that there will be more
work if the cost Of production is reduced,
out We know very well that more iron will
not be sold unless there is q demand for it. |
and that when the demand comes those WHO |
need it will have it, nj matter what it
What would be the resultT'
1T would be folly to talk about that now.
We do not know best what the other dis.
want There viii be t~hirty-two dele
gates in the scale convention, and the
Pittsburg district viii be slightly in the mi
1ority. 1t is therefore not impossible that
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