Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-08-08
H FOURTH DAY.
The EmaIgamated Convention Holds
TWO Lot 9 Sessions,
But Very Little Of What Transpired
is Made Public by the
Officials.

The gentlemen now In the city as dele
gates to the ~Amalgamated Convention were
carly in their seats yesterday morning, and
at 1oll call In one or two failed to respond
10 TIER names.
When the minutes Of Thursday after
Moons meeting had been read, the conven-
ton took up the report OF the Mileage Com
mittee. This document called for q sum
total considerably less than the usual
amount, the fact being most probably due
o the small number Of delegates in attend
aute as compared with the past three or
four years. The sum was a little less tran
5000. The report was adopted.
The next report was from the Committee
on President and other officers. 1t con-
tanned nothing OF especial Importance, and
was soon disposed OF.
The convention then took up the matter
Of
AN OFFICIAL ORGAN,
and the National Labor Tribune was Sc,
lected BY q rising vote, not q negative being
cast. This was a deserving compliment to
Editor Armstrong, who was present, and
many congratulations were showered upon
him by delegates.
The convention then turned its attention
to the report of the Committee on the Good
ofthe Order, one OF the most important sub
iects yet coming before the body. The
committee had several recommendations
of moment for submission to the conven.
ton, one of them being in regard to the
three-turn system in sheet mills. The com
mitted recommended that the action Of the
last convention in this regard
BE RECONSTRUCTED
and that three turns be authorized under
these conditions, as stated by Secretary
Martin: That sheet mills be allowed three
turns, but that no turn be over eight hours
in length, and that no one turn shall ex-
coed one hundred and eighty pieces single
or one hundred aud five double, and that
10 single or double turn mill shall exceed
TWO hurd ed and sixteen pieces single or
one hundred and twenty double iron for
u,n. This matter was discussed at some
length and laid over until the afternoon
session, when the subject was again taken
up and the recommendation OF the com
uiitce adopted.
Other business of much importance W as
then taken up and acted upon, but the sub,
iect Of the matters under discussion were
closely guarded by delegates and officers.
ard nothing leaked out.
In the evening the delegates almost TO a
mhn repaired 10 the ALEXANDRIA Palace Rink,
when they disported themselves on the
aIzzy rollers in q manner fully set firth else
where.
The question Of
THE PRESIDENCY
is gaining in Importance as the days roll by,
and friends OF the candidates are doing an
amount OF wire-pulling which would BE-
CT, ditable to ful-fedged politicians. Pres
ident Wiehe still adheres to his determins-
ton to decline a reelection, ald the eltva
vaticn of Secretary Martin seems almost Q
fixed ia,t. The convention could 20 farther
al d get a worse man. The Secretaryship,
in the event OF Mr.. Martin being called up
higher, will in all probability be given Mr..
Samuel Waitucight, of Pi'tsburg.
There was q report on the street last even
,rg that the Standard Iron Company, at
.fnavillc, had signed the scale aud would
r-sume work Monday, but delegates and
officers of the association had heard nothing
Of it officially and discreditcd the report.