The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-07-13
TIE NAIL SITUATION
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No new developments in the situation
ia The nail strike ara reliably reported, but
there is o prevailing impression that the
dificulty is on the eve Of adjustment.
Many rumors were Hyingar Saturday
and yesterday. Some Of them bore the
stamp Of truth, others seemed plausible,
while others still could only have arisen
from the disofdered imagination Of some
person who knew nothing about the nail
business.
A meeting Of feeders, members Of the
Amalgamated Association employed at the
steel plant and other branches OF labor
was held ct Bellaire Saturday. The pro-
ceedings were carefully guarded, but il Is
thought the meeting bad under consider
alton o proposition that the steel workers
should strike, and refuse TO return to work
until the Dailers conceded the feeders de-
mands, or the difficulty in the nail factory
Is otherwise adjusted fayorably 70 the
feeders. AT any rate 1t was resolved to
strikeif persons were brought from else
where TO feed, or kegs were bought at any
other place 10 put the nails In.
! Bellaire and Wheeling nailers and feed
Ies were laughing Saturday at the gullibil-
| ity OF the reporter who printed o story
Hhat w heeling nailels were 10 70 To feed
ing machines at the Bellaire factory to.
Idsy, and that factory was thus 70 be en-
abIed to run at Its full capacity. Nobody
could be found who knew anything Of such
q course having been even suggested.
wHATTHE FEEDERS WILL DO.
The nail feeders meet in this city, in K.
Of l.. hall, this evening, TO discuss the
situation and decide what course OF action
they will pursue. They are not disposed
to 20 into the factories and run the ma
ichfnes except on contingency. It is
limited that at the meeting this evening
the feeders will slightly modify the de-
mand they have already made upon the
tnailers that three percent OF their number
tbe taught to grind annually, probably
adding stipulation that the price paid
for cutting cold nails be equally divided
between the feeder and mailer, as in the
east and west, instead OF the feeders get
ting but two.ffths as now. 1.-THE nailers'
national convention, which meets in this
city tomorrow, rejects this proposition,
all the feeders who have been talked TO
say they will not then hesitate minute
to accept the nailers' jobs.
The feeders claim that they have the
sympathy OF all other branches OF organ
lied labor, and that they are universally
advised TO insist upon the acceptance OF
Their terms by the nailers or take charge
Of the machines themselves.
To this evenings meeting all feeders,
whether members fthe union or not are
invited. The feeders do not Ike to be put
| in the position, they say, Of reducing
wages, as they would II they accepted the
machines under the reduced scale, but
they maintain that the circumstances
which surround the case Justify themin
doing this II the nailers do,not do what
the feeders consider the square thing.
A manufacturer was quoted Saturday
night as having said that his factory was
open TO the feeders, and II was alleged
that another one had told his feeders that
II any OF them could get temporary Jobs as
nailers In other. mills till their own was
ready TO start, they were at liberty TO &C.
cept them, and would find their own fac
tory open 10 them whenever they wanted
to come back. This is cute.
THE MILLS. 8s
a notice was posted up at the Belmont
mill Saturday, stating that as they had de-
cided to change the manner OF heating
steel the service Of the old heaters aud
helpers were no longer required. Gas fur
naces are to be put in at the Belmont, as
stated Saturday. but as men will be need
ed TO run them this action could not be
interpreted by the men. printed mo-
tice containing the resolution Of the manu-
facturers was also posted al, the factory en-
trance.
II was claimed that more machines were
in operation at the Bellaire factory Satur-
day than on Friday, and that all the ma
chinea would be cutting nails by to-day.
Where the feeders were to come from was
not stated.
The report again gained circulation Sat-
urday night that the heaters and rollers'
scale had been signed by the La Belle mill,
and II was also asserted as positively that
the Riverside company had also signed
this scale. These reports have been 50
often circulated and deniedb by the officials
that It Is now received with grain OF
allowance.
The mill owners still insist that the nail |
market Is overstocked, and that IL the fac.
tories were all TO start up to-day they
would voluntarily shut down for an in
definite period within a few weeks. The
nailers are unable to harmonic the recent
action Of the manufacturers at Cincinnati
with this view.
TALK OF THE HAILERs,
Many Of the nailers from Bellaire, Ben
wood and Martins Ferry were In the oity
Saturday talking over the situation with |
their breteren OF this city. The nailers all |
said, when approached on the subject,
that they would not accept the manuiac.
turers' scale, When aiked what would be |
done in relation to the feeders demands
at to.morrow's convention, they shook
their heads and refused TO prophecy. The
general drift OF their conversation, how:
ever, led TO the belief that they expected
favorable action TO be taken upon the |
feeders communication.
a mailer said Saturday that all tho man
ufacturers' talk about the cheaper nail
cutting in the East was misleading. The
fact Is, he alleges, that nails are cut more
cheaply here than In the East. In an East