The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-09-01
TnE MANUfAo.ruNERs, sAY.
rhrspsS to Barn-All' cations of rreach'
org, ets,

Threats to Durn-An' cations of rreaoh'
ery, etE,
II he Editor Of he haie4ltgaleff.
SIR: Stockholders in glassworks were
notified by plscard in Bellsire yesterday,
that "'unless they started their works,
they rnaSt abide the consequences" Had
the authors Of these ptacards interviewed
stockholders and used the same language,
they would have been informed that as
they had received nothing from their in
yestments in factories operating uader The
"wheeling system" forthe last Ave years,
perhaps settlement with insurance com.
paaies would be desirable, as they could
then wind up business and enter other
fields. This point would have been inten.
siGed by u rel ference to the fact that o fac
tory no. engaged in the so.called clock
ont" hnt operating under the eWheeling
system" with eight competing factories
out OF the market, did not pay the semi.
annual dividend In July, an occurrence
hitherto unprecedented. However, no
one believes that this placard emanated
from the YorEmen, for surely they are too
wise TO wish to Kill the goose which lays
the golden egg"
Next comes the well authenticated ru-
NOR that tho Elson company has made
terms with the men and will resume to-
morrow morning. To the manufactures
this information is most astonishing.
When the manufacturers on the Ohio
a.. In a RtH nj
system they enteredinto afa!emn contract
that neither one wopld resume work, eE.
cept with the eonsent OF two-thirds Of
those engaged in the movement. At that
time the Elson was the most extreme as
to what should be asked from our work
men, and it became necessary for the
other factories to "sit down" on them, SO
rash and unreasonable were they in their
demands. Again, Of the conference in
December they took a position 30 far be:
yond reason that no one expected the
workmen 10 agree.
Later on they declaredin thestreetstheir
determination to destroy tho union, and
one OF the party repeatedly declared that
che could i1svor die happy till he had de-
stroyed The union" Then they came to
LIl6 IlhuulhCLuICIb hooNSIak4Ou huh tokcu
for permission to light their furnace, say
ing they copld get workmen from abroad
who were willing 10 Eork on the "Pltts-
burgh system" Later they begged from
the association a resolution more extreme
than any that hid been thought Of, claim.
ing that they had engaged tcah" work.
men from Rochester and must be support
ed. Only yesterday they asserted that
they had men engaged who would come
prepared to defend emselves-whateve
that may mean. And now they have made
terms, without consulting those to whom
they had pledged their sacred honor { y
that they would not resume until they
were permitted 10 do 90 by their asso.
ciates in this movement. The queries are,
will the directors and stockholders Of the
Ilson Glass Company sustain men who
so readily proVe tecreant to their pledges?
and does it not ece,a probable that the
Boycotter was about right in heaping
opprobrium and ridicule upon certain Of
the officials Ia that company The 70.
suits will be that manufacturers and deal
ers all over the country will hold their
noses when certain concern is named,
and that just and reasonable demands
will not be abandoned, even il tAers gro
traitors in the camp. A STOCKHOLDERS.
Wheeling, AuglSt 81.