Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-07-28
THE NAIL SITUATION.
How Matters at the Various Mills
Looked Yesterday.
The BeawOOd Factory Starts Up With
Fourteen Machines, Run BY Feeders
when the Other Factories
VIII Resume.

Comment and discussion over the action
aiken BY the feeders wa rife yesterday and
he whole community Is stirred up over the
matter, the business men being IS deeply
interested, almost, IS the manufacturers
"This strike and its result, whatever 1t
may be, knocks Whesing's business inter
ests, to 9 great extent, in the head" said q
heater yesterday. Wheeling has seen her
best days in the nail business, and the good
old times when q real business boom struck
the city occasionally, will occur no more
Said another gentleman; This condition
of things has been entirely brought about
By the nailers themselves, when they seeded
from the
A~NALGANATED ASSOCIATION,
the boilers in the lurch. If
they had stuck by the old ship, and to the
scale adopted by it, that twenty per cent.
more be charged for making steel nails,
the boilers would have had occups-
ton to-day and there would be
no such thing as the steel
nail the business interests of the city would
have been in better condition and everybody
happy. OF course the nsilers thought the
manufacturers would stand by them when
thew had done so much for them. Now you
see how they are rewarded. BY PLAYING
into the manufacturers hands, they have
ousted themselves with the assistance of the
they benefited most. But it is too
late now. The die is cast and the result is
DISASTROUS TO WHEELING"
A good deal of excitement was created
Yesterday at the Belmont mill and q large
crowd Of men, women and children assem-
bled in the vicinity. This was occssioned
BY the nailers all marching to the mill in q
body with wheelbarroWs and other vehicles,
according to notification, to take their tools
away. Their proceedings were watched
with great interest by the crowd,
scattered through which were
many boilers and helpers. Something over
an hour was occupied by the nsilers in get
ting out their belongings, but everything
was done in 9 gentlemsnly manner aud IN
the best humor, many f~scetious remarks be-
ing exchanged between them and some OF
the lookers-on.
The manager of the mill stated that ne
o as things could be gotten
IN RUNNISG SHAPE,
the factory would start on with about eleven
men. This will probably be tomorrow. Inc
new heating furnaces at this mill will not be
completed for several weeks yet, aud the
nail plate rolls are being put in repair
There Is enough nail plate on hand to las
some Little time.
AT the Riverside mill q notice was ported
yesterday, the following being a copy:
The Riverside factory will resume opera
tons this week apd any nailers desiring to
retain their jobs viii noufy the factory man
Sger before II o'clock, noon, Tuesday, the
18th inst, that they are ready to go to work
the manufacturers scale Of prices. Tools
viii be removed before 4 o'clock Tuesday
RIVERSIDE IRON WORKS.
. Several nailers took out their tools yester-
day and therest will do so to day. 1t is said
the Riverside viii
OPEN on WEDNESDAY,
morning with FIVE feeders on machines and
others will be taken in gradually. A ruuor
was also current that a number of Eastern
would take machines in this factory,
but the report could not be su~bstsntisted.
A reporter took q run down to Benwood
Yesterday afternoon to see what was being
done, q rumor having prevailed in the city
that there wa trouble brewing. When the
factory was reached everything vas quiet,
except the chatter made by q number OF
machines, which we're chewing up nails at q
rapid rate. Several of the boys were stuck
on their machines and we're working vigor-
ously to mskethemproduce good nails. There
we're fourteen men OF as many machines
which are all hot Jobs. The mill has over
q hundred tons OF hot nail ironon hand, but
no plate for cold nails. The feeders went
to work early yesterday morning and about
S o'clock they were requested to
LEAVE the FACTORY
while the nailers took their tools therefrom
0thsr feeders will probably take machine,
this week
The Lsughlin mill, at Martins Ferry,
will, it is said, resume with eleven machines
this morning. 1t is also said that Manager
Matthew Altmeyer has resigned his position
and that it ist be filed BY Clarence Burris,
of Chattanooga. 0,her men will be taken
on as fast IS practicable. The other nailen
expected from Chattanooga had not arrived
last evening, as far as could be learned.
A committee of feeders will confer with
the managers Of the Brilliant mill this
morning, and the factory is expected to
start up about Thursday with eleven or
twelve feeders running machines. 1t is said
that after all the machines have been given
out to feeders who desire them, the rest viii
be run by
EASTERN NAILERS,
who will be brought here for that purpose.
A feeder informed q reporter last night
that they would meet the managers Of the
LaBelle mill to-day and make arrange
menis whereby the feeders who so desired
could take machines in that factory.
It is probable that the LsBelle
viii be opened up this week. The Top mil,
it is said, will not make an attempt at 8
5laIL IOE eefcE6l NccAS yc1.
The Bellsire nail works started up again
Yesterday. Fifty-four machines, including
twenty one selEfeeders, are in operation,
The steel plant also resumed work and q
large quantity Of metal will be turned out,
as both turns will be put on. The coopers
worked four days last week and overstocked
the supply Of kegs They will be set to
work again some time this week.
THE NAIL FEEDERS
held g big meeting last night at Knights Of
Labor Hall, and the question was discussed
at some length. Nothing new was done
with the exception Of initiating thirty new
members, and urging the boys to stick to-
gether. There are many feeders yet who
say they viii not take machines. A feeder
met q reporter las night and during a con-
yersation be said:
while | think the nailers should have
acceded to our demands. Yet / do not
propose, for my part, to get revenge BY
taking their Jobs at . less price than they
reoasyoI althnn0h sf n wara nof a unaffor