The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-11-20
THE NAIL STRIKE.
LOTS OF talk ABOUT THE CITY
On the Pittsburgh History and Alleged In-
aide View of the Origin add Progress of
The Contest About the scale Of
wOESs-viswA Of all Interests.

papsr, naturally caused q good deal Of
comment. Manufacturers, nailerS, feeders
and ex.boilers alike read the article with
interest, and while all pointed out errors
Of statement there was no great amount Of
objection waged to it in any quarter.
Said prominent manufacturer, when
asked about tue. article: 81 don't know
where 1t emanated from, but there is q
good deal OF history in it, aud likewise a
good deal Of Inauguration. The statement
that the steel nail industry arose from
desire on the part Of the manufacturers
TO be 'revengel' on thu boiler Is prepos.
ferrous. Why, We all hal costly forgss
aud boiling iu naces, which were rendered
useless by the change. Do you suppose u
general change involving the sacrifice oil
so large an investment could proceed from
a desire for revenge? 0ne company
might possibly act from such unbuslness-
like motive, but not all the western nail
coucerns. The fact Is that the steel nail
was adopted because II was better than
the iron nail. ihAs was all. 1t is held
that where a factory has its own steel
plant the steel nail can also be made
cheaper. IcAn't say as to that from ex-
peience, however"
e.. FAVORED THE NAtLERs.
Another manufacturer objected to the
article because 1t favored the mailer
throughout. lie took exceptions to sever.
al OF the statements and Deductions in the
article, and suggested new view OF the
situation, referring u the card from a
nailer.ieeder in yesterdays lSTELLiGEN-
GER. Said he: 1.-THE truth is just this
Take mill with, say thirty nallers and
l2U machines. EsCn machine employs q
feeder. Then there Is the bluer and his
assistants, the packer and his boys, the
heaters and rollers and helpers ana roll
hands, to say nothing Of tue miners and
other aborels who are dependent on such
a factory for work. Do you know that
those thirty naileTs are keeping three
hundred men from working? That Is q
ftct. A minority OF 0ue-tenth is ruling
majority Of nine-teuths. Why, that is
un.American, and unreasonable"
The local manufacturers met yesterday
in regular weekly session, but ~ usual,
Secretary Wise, when asked what was
done, sald: Nothing. 1t WAS only the
usual weekly meeting to talk over mat
ters."
"Well, what was said?"
"Nsthing ofinterest to tho public"
TIE NArLERs' VIEW.
A reporter called at the United Naileis'
headquarters, aud found number oil
prominent nGilers present. They had all
read the article referred 10, and their
views were diverse. 0ae mailer said that
a well-known manufacturer told him
about the time the steel nail came
in that the principal object in
introducing it was 10 do away
with that unru!y class" tho boilers, who
hal always given them trouble. Another
said he did not think this feeling was gen.
orally shared by the manufacturers.
"Why," said he, zone Of them told me
that alter q careful investigation Of the
relative cost oil making steel nails and
iron nails, they had found that labor
which cost about 81 or Sl2 in making
iron nails could be done away with. aud
the labor OF that kind which entered into
steel nails would not cost more than s. or
81. That difference is enough 10 account
for the change"
The nailers all said the only motive
which actusted them in leaving the Anal
gsmated Association was the belief that
the boilers would vote them into the mills
at reduction. The two interests really
had nothing in common alter iron was
abandoned for steel. The statement that
had the nailers remained in the Anal
gamation they would to-day be working at
their own scale was derided. "How could
the Association help us?" was asked. Its
members do not work in the nail factories
Of this ssction. They couldn't sustain US,
and II they vera with us, we'd all be on
strike together"
The nailers' executive board has resolv-
ed to stand firm for the q cent scale. All
seen yesterday said they would not work
at II cents, and were particularly en-
phatic in the declaration that they woold
not work with "blacksheep."
BREEDERS AND BOILERS.
Ono or two feeders who are standing
out for the q cent scale were heard to
declare their intention TO remain out till
they won, independently Of the nailers.
They say they regard this rs their fight
equally with the nailcr'.
An old Belmont boiler, referring to the
Pittsburgh article, said it was q tissue OF
misStGtementS from beginning to end. The
statement that the Belmont boilers waited
on the company and asked what prlcs for
boiling could be paid and the iron mil re-
tanned, was not true. The Lodge left the
AmalSamation because tho nailers, though
staying in it, refused to obey its orders
and demand tho twenty percent additional
for cutting steel. Several months later
Of all the boilers in all the
mills did meet committee oil manu-
I lecturers and ask what reduction in their
wages would cause the manufacturers TO
continue - make iron nails, but nothing
resulted from this conference.
One OF the nailers eaid at the meeting
hero to discuss the 20 percent clause that
such demand could do the boilers no
good; that the day was coming when
their occupation would be gone anyhow.
A New Steel eroesS, to DO Tried.
Hon. Z. Wheeler, Of Sharon, Pa, has
received letter from the English in
venlor and capitalist, Mr.. Alfred Days,
stating that he will return to America in |
the spring and fuperintend the erection Of
an experimental steel plant in Sharon or
as circumstances offer. Mr.. |
Davies spent several weeks in Sharon
during the past summer, and transferred
to local company the right to control the
patent in the United States. Mr.. DayyB
has received notice from Washington that |
every application for patents has been |
4 Il Hhua ia
on the process.
oil OF QA,in Tyler doqa.y.
DR.. W. y stathers, prominent physi-
clan and one OF the most active Repub-
Iicans Of Tyler county, was in the city yes.
terday. lie sayS the leasing Of land from
Hon. W. l. Boremsu and Sheriff Powell,
IN the vicinity Of Middlebourne, for the
purpose OF boring Tor gas or oil, bsS
aroused considerable interest In the sub.
A.. u. kUIt,n q D,lIsz-.