Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-07-27
the CRISIS AT HAND.
The Feeders to Take the Nail
Machines This Week.
Chattanooga hailers to Act as In
structOrs - The LaughIin Nail
C~ompany's Contract.

At last the crisis in nail circles has come,
aud this week viii bring q realization OF
what has for some time been only talked Of.
The manufacturers have determined to pat
the feeders on the machines and the feed
ers have decided to accept them. The stu
alton is the talk Of the town and discussion
in regard to the matter is heard upon all
sides.
1t is now probable that
THE BELMONT
will take the initial step. Yesterday the
Of that mill held a conference
with the feeders committee, which. resulted
amicably, and mutual agreement has been
made, the exact particulars of which could
not be obtained, bat the purpOrt Of which is
that the feeders will take the machines, the
understanding being that they are 10 have
steady work and instructors to teach them
tie trade.
Ii was learned Saturday that q list Of
about
TWENTY NANEs
had been secured of feeders who were
willing to 20 TO work al any time, and 1t Is
presumed that the manutacturers' scale has
been signed. 1t is understood, also, that
about fifteen instructors have been engaged
to come here from the East. the modus op-
erandi Of teaching the feeders being that
about ten or fifteen will betsken on the first
week and the second week that many more,
until they car all manage to get along by
themselves. The factory will probably be
OPENED Up
on Tuesday or Wednesday, and it is said
that the nailers will be notified to take their
tools out on Monday.
From Bellaire comes the rumor that the
feeders down there will not return to work
on the old terms under any consideration,
but instead many Of them viii take machines
in the Benwood factory. 1t is asserted that
about twenty feeders have also signed to
take Jobs in this factory and it is expected
that
MANY MORE
viii sign tomorrow.
A feeder said last night that many Of
those Who formerly said they wouldn not take
machines have changed their minds and
are now anxious to get to work; that the
feeling is spreading rapidly, and once that
the break is made there will BE- 9 general
rush for machines and it viii not be long
before all are taken. Yesterday
H CAP sHEAF
was added to the nailers' and feeders
trouble at Martins Ferry by the latter
signing the manufscturers scale IS adopted
by the recent Cincinnati Convention, and
the President of the Laughlin nail mill
entering into the following agreement:
WHEELING, July Is, 1885.
The Lsughlin Nail Company, of Wheel
ing, W. Va, does hereby agree to give the
uailfseders who have signed the manutactur:
ers' scale of wages, o fair and impartial
Trial for the period of six months at learning
the trade of making nails, and that no feeder
who has secured such 9 situation shall be
discharged to make room for other nsilers
unless there Is just cause and provocatlon
LAUGHLIN NAIL CoMPASY.
By ALEX. LAUGHLIN, President.
One day last week one of the Wheeling
managers sent to Chattanooga, Tenn, for
the uailers to send one of their men to
Wheeling to confer with the managers rs to
terms upon which at least 9 part OF their
number could be
INDUCED To CONS HERE
and take the places of the striking nailsrs.
The nailers at Chattanooga sent Clarence
n. Burris, formerly q feeder in the Laughln
mill. as their representative. Upon arrly-
ing Burris held a conference with the man
ufScturers and decided to advise the Chat
tanooRs men to come and take jobs
in the Wheeling mills. This he
did BY telegraph and in answer he received
a telegram last night, from one OF their
number stating that they would al leave
for Wheeling at midnight last night. There
q q general opinion among the naliers
and many others that at the eleventh hour
the feeders would back down and not take
The nailers Jobs, but now since . number OF
the feeders have, and in fact the
lodva committee have agned the
scaIe, and Laughln has entered
into the above agreement and the Chata
noo0a ~nsiIers have started for this place, it
IooEs as If something had occurred which it
vii take ct least six months to rectity.
Az OPEN MEETING
afaIl the feeders who desire TO attend viii
be held this afternoon at knights Of Labor
AN beginning at 8 o'clock, when 70 doubt
everything viii be definitely settled
A postal card signed "Nsitfeeders' was
received at this Office last evening, saying,
among other things, that if the managers,
Who state thar win refuse to tsach the feed
ers. think they cannot afford to do so, there
are many other men who are "a competent
ard viii take their situations.
The Bsnwood mill viii put IN gas heating
sv,nacea a Rill also the Top mill the latter
ocom nenss preparations for building them
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