The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-05-29
A STRIKE IMMINENT
1N THE IRON AND NAIL MILLS.
m. NAN naaufaeta1sr. PropO.. a new sila:
ing Scale for Nailsr.' Pay-wha. the MN
Owners Have to Say of the situation.
ASansp. Views 90 the sabjset.

Naturally the greatest anxiety prevails
in Wheeling to know the outcome Of the
negotiations between the nail mauufae-
turers and the United Nailers and the nail
mill owners and the Amalgamated Asso-
citation, in regard to the scale Of wages Of
iron workers for the ensuing year. It was
hoped that the result OF the meeting of
nail men at Cincinnati on Wednesday
would be OF = character TO. avert
strike in the nail industry.
That meeting was quite largely
attended, the delegates present being
J. Z. AcCourtney, Of the Bellatre Nail
Works; MAior A. Loring; Benwood Iron
Works; ]. n. Vance, Riverside 1ron
Works, President Of the Association;
H. N. Priest, LaBelle Iron Works; ]. d.
Dubois, Belmont Iron Works; @. D. Hub.
bard, Wheeling Iron and Nail Company; !;
Alexander Laughlin, Laughlin Nail Coma
pany; Samuel Lsuehlin, Junction Iron
Company; Walter Chess, Chess, Cook &
Co, Pittsburgh; General Fitzhugh. Shoen-
berger 4 Co., Pittsburgh; A. F. Keatng,
Zug & Co., Pittsburgh; ]. F. Darnell,
tireencastle Iron Works, 1reeneastle; C.B.
Doty, Jefferson Iron Works, SteubenyiIle;
Mr.. Nippert, Terre Haute Iron Company,
Terre Haute; General W. II. Powell,
Western Iron Works, BslIeville; Colonel
D. G. Bradley, Calumet Iron and Steel Com
pany, Chicago; George b. Taylor. Sharon
Iron Company, Sharon; J. A. Kelly, Kelly
Iron and Nail Works, Ironton; I. D. Nor.
ton, Belfast Iron Works, 1rontoa; John
Russell, Norton Iron Works, Ashland
Mr.. Arms, Falcon Iron and Nail Com
,pany, Niles, o. Mr. George Wise, Of this
city, Secretary OF the Association, was
also present. ~
The Wheeling men returned yesterday,
but were reticent as TO the result of the
meeting. It is evident that the feeling
among both manufacturers and working
men Is that there will be strike. The
reasons for this impression they do not
give in detail.
NEW SCALE PROPOSED.
From what could be gathered, however,
It may be said that the nail manufacturers
desire TO alter the scale in what they con-
slider an important respect, and at the
same time in the direction -et greater
equity between the two interests. Their
proposition is thatthe present scale, which
rises three cents q keg on each dollar Of |
advance in the card rate, but does not fall
below twenty.one cents keg for ten
pennies on card rate Of g 81, shall be |
changed to 60 down rs well rs up at the |
relative rate Of cent q keg on each rise
or fall ottwenty-fve cents In the card rate.
For example: With the present card rate
OF 3 so per keg, the price paid for cutting
is twenty-one cents, Under the proposed
arrangement, II the card rate vera to be
lowered to s, the price for cutting would
be nineteen cents, and so on down, as far
as the card rate might fall.
A manufacturer said: ave have no de-
sire to reduce wages for the mere sake of
q reduction. II our nailers can force the
Eastern manufacturers up to the present
scale, We are willing to pay it. But zee
how great disadvantage We labor under:
50 near as Harrisburg they are paying4
thirteen cents for cutting where we pay
tSenty-one, and freight rates enable them
on this very considerable margin to run
their products into Western markets and
cut the ground from under Us. The
Western buyer does not ask what we pay
for labor. He buys as cheaply as no can,
and does not care where the nails are
made"