Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-07-11
A new COMPLICATION.
The BsIIairs Mill to Start Up Full
On Monday,
With an Array Of Talent IN the Shape Of
Wheeling Nailers on the Feeders
StooIs---Both Naiers and
Feeders to Meet.

The situation about the mills Is becoming
more complicated, and each passing day
seems to add to the uncertainty Of tie out
look. While looking around last night
for the latest news in relation to the strike,
q REGISTER reporter got on the track of g
rather important rumor. This was that on
Monday morning the Bellaire mill would be
started up in full. the vacant stools being
occupied by Wheeling and Martins Ferry
nailers. The information came from q
feeder who, judging from the emphatic
manner in which he handled the vocabulary
of cuss words, took the report
VERY MUCH TO HEART.
The reporter lost no time in hunting up
we'll known mailer, and asking him if there
was anything new. Nothing was going on,
90 far as the grindstone artist knew. What
would turn up to-morrow-would the en-
eines of any Of the factories be started up
in the afternoon, with the humble and unss-
snming feeder in the new role of mailer?
No, he fancied not. After several other
questions had been answered in an evssive
way the reporter artlessly asked his friend
if he intended to feed hot or cold nails next
Monday. The mailer locked uneasy for a
moment, and then the conversation grew
more specific, the mailer saying, in substance,
that the Bellaire mill would Coon in full,
every machine running, on Monday morn
ing, and that it would so continue indefinite
ly. If that would not supply the demand
the works will be
RUN DOUBLE TURN,
the nailers Of this city furnishing the neces
sary men, he further stated that this was
not q move toward subduing the striking
feeders, but that it was intended as point
er to the manufacturers who had expressed
themselves as intending to start up the
mills with feeders or any one else who
would try to run the machines The
Bellaire mill, said he, has signed all our
scales and treated us right clear through,
and it is our duty to see that their trade is
not taken by mills run by blacksheep and
incompetents generally. The feeders are
not botheriDg us. If we had only them to
antagonize us, we could afford to wait
little and break the strike by other means.
The move contemplated by us next Monday
is only one of Justice. If other mills try to
run with inexperienced men and lower
wages, and the Bellsire mill is forced to
sand idle for want of feeders, it would surely
loose its trade. This is what we desire to
prevent, and in recognition of this fact, and
The further fact that this company has
signed the scales 30 promptly, it is nothing
more than common honesty for the nail
ers 10
TRY AND PROTECT THEM.
The Bellaire mill, under the care of exper
fenced hands, will have decided advan.
tsge over the mills which are run By feeders
or others, with even the lower wages such
mills will pay, as the former will not be sub
ject to any loss in the way ofbreakage, bad
nails, etc"
Later in the evening the reporter met
another feeder, who, like his com,
psnion first above mentioned,
was handling the English language without
gloves. This gentleman desired the report
er to made note of the fact that if Wheel
ing nsilers went to Bellaire to work at feed
ing the feeders here would apply for their
Jobs at the mill offices.
Then" said the reporter, eff they don't
90 down you won't take their jobs%
well, that 8 further along, but well take
EN- quick if they do 60"
A Manufacturer was seen at late honr
and asked what would be done to-day if the
nsilers didn't come to time.
IL don't want to talk to you newspaper
men. but you can say this: The mailer who
thinks we are playing bluff game is a very
BADLY FOOLED CITIZEN.
We did not meet at Cincinnati for nothing"
The nailers are busy making prepare
tons for their convention, which assemblies
in this city Tuesday. A few delegates ar
rived last night and more are booked for
10 day. A large delegation is looked for,
and the meeting will be a very important
one.
The feeders are also making preparations
for a big meeting to be held in X. of l.. Hall
in this city, Monday evening. An endeavor
was made yesterday to ascertain the bust
ness to be transacted, but beyond the infor-
nation that it relates to the trouble with the
oailers nothing could be learned.
Yesterdays Pittsburg Commercial Ga
zette contained the following:
THE nsilers feel encouraged to fight 1t
out from the fact that they discern symp
'oms of weakening on the part Of the manu-
facturers. They have noticed that Chess
Cook L Co. are cosling up, and think from
be signs that it will affect them. They say
+ g Nsilers' Association shows no symp
toms Of weakening and that there is no
chance of compromising the trouble. The
manufacturers must come to their terms.
Among the manufacturers the feeling is
strong that now is
THE TIME TO WIN.
There are more automatic machines in use
now than ever before. The feeders them
selves are now better educated in the bust
ness and more able to handle machines
They cay they mean what they have said,
and will win with the present difficulty ex
istipg between the feeders and nsilers."
1t is reported the Jefferson mill, at Steub-
enville, is being put in order preparatory to
started up, but for the truth of the rumor
we cannot vouch.