Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-04-22
ANOTHER BREAK.
Fifteen Hundred Finishers SeCeed
at Pittsburg,
From the Am%aIgamated Association, Which
is Now on Its Last Legs---Rumor
That Manufacturers Will
Also Seceed.

The assertion of q heater to a reporter
printed in yesterday mornings REGISTER,
that that the nail plate rollers and heaters
would not regret their action of Saturday
last, seems to be about the case in the face
of subsequent events. Wheeling led in the
secession Of the nailers from the Amalga-
mated Association; her nail feeders followed
IN their wake; then the inisheIs, seeing
that The association was doomed to destruc-
ton, also met and seeded, leaving only a
remnant Of the power OF the former great
organization that extended TO every rolling
mill west of the Alleghenies. The lead OF
Wheeling has been followed in every in
stance by the workmen in other cities, AMI
the following dispatch received from Pitts
burg last night now shows concllsively that
all these moves have been received favor.
ably by the operatives in that city:
"Wben the news was sent forth of the
disaffection among the Wheeling nail cut
ting members CT the Am~algamated Asso-
citation and the subsequent withdrawal OF
The rollers and heaters of the same section,
| The most sanguine friends of the organiza.
ZION in the PittsbuIg district were made
decidedly uneasy in regard to the results.
The secession in the Second dis
trict is thrown into the shade by
he importance of a movement which,
although it had been on foot for ONE time
past, did not leak out until to-day. The
movement in its present condition, accord
ing to good authority, means nothing less
than a complete d~isintegration of the
Amalgamated Association in this, the place
Of its birth, the field Of its greatest victories
and the center of its operation. To-day a
man who has worked in various mills in
he city, and who evidently under
stands the wheels within wheels bet
Ter than even the officials Of the association,
gave the following new move among the
mill workers, said he: ON Saturday, the
llth inst, the representatives of 800 heat,
ers and rollers, in fact, all the tinishers in
EN- sheet mills in this city, met and COM
pleted The preliminary organization for a
new association, which will work entirely
independent Of the Amalgamated Associa.
ZION. The originators OF the movement are
being aided and abetted by their employers
who will themselves secede from the manu-
facturel's association and treat the wage
question with their employees direct. Geu
can safely say there will be no strike in the
mills this summer; as a result, the p~uid.ers
will be left alone and they will then revive
| the Sol s Of Vulcan, which was the nucleus
Of the A~malgamated Association. The
officials of the ~Amalgamated Association
were dumbfounded today when apprised oil
the new move for the first time by a report
er whose information comes from q source
Of ~unCoubted reliability"
The statement in the above dispatch tina.
the employers have aided and abet
ted the workmen in this move and tina.
they would leave the Manufacturers A.
location will do doubt create O protount
sensation among both manufacturers and
employees and in that act on the former
! have evidently moved with the intention Of
Ieading Wheeling in one phase OF the iron
question. Something new and astonishing
| is occurring every day, and tits hard to tell
what the next move in the game will be,
nut probably a few pointers may be CLEANED
rom the result OF the Western Nail Assocla-
ion meeting, which takes place here to-day.
The following delegates to the conven-
ion arrived in the city last night, stopping
at the Mcclure: d. Foster, John NJ. Laven,
Vim. Garden, d. X. Dean, q. VI. Laughlin,
&. S,albener and Joseph D.. Weeks, Pitts.
burg; George II. Taylor, Sharon Pa; }. A.
Kelly and f. d. Norton, ~IrontOn, o John
| 6. PEBBLES. Portsmouth, O., and }. NJ. Rob.
bins, Cleveland.
The Wheeling members OF the association
will banquet those from abroad at the Nc
Lure this afternoon.