The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-09-08
THE VAIL srEIEE.
a workingman's Views PiAinly Expressed
Getting Serious.


TO he Editor Of ne hteIlicsnca.
SIR:-The strike now existing betwetr
the nail manufacturers and the nailers
heaters aud rollers in the Wheeling mill
is growing more and more alarming, in
stead Of terminating peaceably rs was ex
peCted. This strike will not be settled, II
is feured, until come dirty work OF serious
proportions is resorted to to defeat those
who are contending nobly for their rights.
The aspect OF things at the Belmont mill
on Monday last verities the report OF the
company intention to resume work with
"black sheep" heaters, rollers andtheir as
sistaHts at the manufacturers figures.
These figures, 1t is currently reported, are
lower than what the scale calls for that
WAS gotten up by the nail manufacturers
last June. Those men who have volun.
tarily protEered their services to work for
a reduction Of wages know in their hearts
they are doing a wrong that cannot be ap.
proved By tbs people that had not
much sympathy with the strikers
up 10 the present time. The expression
and remArks Of those people on the street
are loud in their denunCiation against
those unprincipled men who wormedtheir
way into = certain mill. The imbecile
creatures that have lost all sense OF priuci-
pie aud manhood in iorfeiting their good
name by doing what they will be sorry
for, are fully aware OF the fact that the
nail manufacturers Of Wheeling and vi
cinity are leaving nothing undone to in.
duce one part oil their employees to reduce
the wsges OF the other part, who have the
ambition and spirit to contend for fair
days wages for fair days work. Thou
sauds Of American citizens have for sew
eral years past forcibly agitated the impor-
ted pauper labor question to euch an ex-
tent that Congress was forced to adopt a
law prohibiting the importation Of any
more pauper labor under certain penal
ties. We all have read in the public press
what qualifications the HungarianE, Ital-
iaus and Poles have for working for low
wages or to be used as slaves TO do the
dirty work in accepting few cents day
and their allowance OF rice; or is 1t soon
to be forgotten how these poor ignorant
creatures were used against American
white labor at the Cleveland, o., rolling
mill and what the result was? Or can it
be forgotten what riot and blooished the
Chinese brought upon themselves in Wy
oming Territory last week?
Can 1t be possible that our high toned
and distinguished citizens OF Wheeling
would turn themselves into Hungsriaus,
Italians, Poles and Chinese? Shame on
men tina. will allow their names in tho
same list with imported pauper labor! II
1t YVES case OF dire necessity or down
right hardship that compelled those men
to so debase and degrade themselves be-
fora the Lblic, rs 10 cause them to injure
their fellow men by all unprincipled and
contumptible act in working for the COM
pany's terms at heavy reduction, there
may be some excuse for them in doing so,
but as the case'now stands there is no
sympathy to offer. On the contrary they
deserve the condemnation OF every free
American, aud should be looked down
upon rs men willing at all times to present
themselves as low, despicabls tools or vol
untary slaves to whip their fellow men In
to submission and obedience to tho powers
that be. A True USIoHIsT.
Wheeling, SEPTEMBER Z. .