Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-07-31
HOW THE SITUATION LOOKS
Three Factories Still Running, With
the Addition Of One Machine
At the BeImOut---ACtiOn Taken by the Feed
ers at Bayyiew---A Little Knock
Down at Martins FERRY.

situution yesterday and all three o the fac
tories on the previous day were still running
with the same number of machines, and
about the same success. AS the days in
crease the interest is augmented, aud short
Wheeling people will know more about
nails thsn they ever imagined they would
everleM.
At the Belmont things were going along
very well with sixteen machines in opera
ton. 1t was understood that n of the
machines was broken in some manner, and
it was not in use in the afternoon. Five
cold machines were at work, one FIVE penny
being among the number.
THE NEW GAS HEATING FURNACES
at the Belmont are rapidly nearing compile
ton. 1t is understood that no heaters will
be employed to work the new furnaces, but
men will be employed by the day, as skilled
labor with these furnaces is not required
| There viii be three men to each furnace
instead of two as formerly and the new
fuel will heat the iron to o certain tenn
p~ersture and no more.
-Four machines were still on at the River
side and hone additional will be added un-
til next Monday, when it is expected five
more viii be put on. .
Things remain quiet at the La Belle and
Top mills, and nc definite time has been
set for the factories to resume, although 1t
is said the latter factory will start some time
next week with three of It's own feeders and
two from Bellaire. Said q mailer yesterday:
The stockholders Of the LABelle
ARE MOSTLY PRACTICAL MEN
and they do not propose to rush pel mel
into an experiment so uncertain and costly
in its results"
The Brilliant factory has not resumed yet
and Mr.. Spaulding says that the prospects
of starting are not Asttering. They will
not start, says he, until the nailers sign the
scale or the feeders take the machines.
A mailer, in speaking OF the assertion OF
the manufacturers, that they could not make
nails at present prices to compete with East,
ern manufacturers, said to q reporter yester-
day:
"Now that is all folly, and l can show
you Why. Some time ago several mills in
his city received orders from the East for
nails, and we were requested to put our ma
chimes in shape for making the sizes de
sired. You see Eastern nails
ARE 4 GOOD DEAL LIGHTER
han ours and we refused to make them a.
the same Irice, therefore we received more
Than our scale price tor making the light
uaila. These nails were branded
ight in the factory, Fuller Mills" which
en- Eastern mandatory, and shipped to
,htm. Now, 1t is not likely that they would
end these nails East unless there was some
profit in them. The shipments we're heavy,
co."
The directors of the La Belle and Jeasr-
son mills held q meeting at Steubenviilt
yesterday, but did nothing except informal
iy discuss matters in regard to the erection
Of q steel plant.
ACTION OF II BAYyIEw FEEDERS.
Word comes to the REGISTER that at a re-
cent meeting of the nail feeders Of Bay
View, Wis, the following wa adopted;
Resolved, That we lend our hearty sup
port to the nailers in their efforts to keep
up the standard Of their wages and ours, ano
that We condemn the action of the manu-
fscturers in their attempts to reduce them
| by placing feeders on the machines.
1t is also learned that the Bay View fac.
tory will not start up with feeders at the
machines.
Yesterday Manager Jones, Of the Etna
mill, sent for the mill committee to hold a
conference on the subject of signing the
scale. He presented them a proposition Of
tering to sign the Amslgsmated scales, ex-
cepting the old rail clause, in the sheet mill
workers section. This, ofcourse, leaves the
matter just as it was before, as the entire
scale must be signed to make it possible for
any part of this mill to work.
The Amalgamated men of the Etna and
Standard mills received their regular bene.
fits yesterday.
The union and non-union feeders held a
mass meeting at Knights Of Labor Hall in
Bellaire last night at 1880 o'clock. The re.
suit ofthe meeting was that four %non-union
and one union feeder resolved to 60 to work
in the Bellaire factory this morning. This
will make sixty-6Ve machines in operation
at the factory.
The following in regarl to the Mingo
mill is taken from the Steubenville Her
I'D:
A rumor was saoat this morning to the
effect that the nailers of the Mingo Iron
Works had been requested by the company
TO remove their tools from the mill. Meet
iDg q prominent mailer, who has machines
at Mingo, q reporter informed him Of
he report, and asked if there vi any truth
in it.
None whatever" was the reply. II am
a mailer at the Mingo works, and | have re
ceiyed no such orders"
What will be the outcome of the feeders
taking machines at the Riverside in VIII BEL
ingG'
1T amounts to nothing. Yesterday
morning four feeders went to work in that
mill, and / am informed that but three are
working this morning. Tomorrow or the
next day you will End them all out sgaia "
Then you have faith In the feeders stay
ing with the nsilersY'
Yes, sir, ! have. The feeders will not
90 with the manufacturers. Those men
who took the Wheeling machines are not
reliable men. They belong to a class OF
feeders who roam about the country, who
are not really feeders. AND they can't do
feeders work"
Then there is nothing new in the situa
| tionT'
Nothing that l know of.
1T MARTINS FERRY.
Mill matters seem to be the all absorb
ing topic of conversation at present
Among the feeders and nailers there seems
to be an inclination not to talk 80 much as
usual, the reason for this, as assigned
BY those who should know, being that there
is some mysterious thing about to drop,
Yesterday there was an occurrence which
shows the bad blood which really exists in
some cases between the nailers and feed
ers.
In the morning about half past eleven
o'clock, Dave Paxton, a former nail feeder
here INIT now n Chattanooga mailer. with