Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-08-07


net take the fellows who spent their nights
in carousal and who were ready to sleep
on their stools the next day. We
did not confne our choices to those long.
tongued profane blusierers who carry q
meeting By storm aud who cannot curse
the naiers loud or long enough to satisfy
their own hatred, and who take exception
TO everything mailer says. We took men
who were quiet and level.headed and who
had enough sense of justice 10 see that a.
though they were not making as much
money as we were they could not naturally
expect 10. We chose men, who, when feed
ers, attended 10 their business and were sue
cessful feeders, and who, for that reason. we
naturally supposed would make good nailcrs
and make the trade creditable and its rep
rescntatives worthy of the respect OF the
managers and the community. Whose
wages are we striking for now? Is it our
own alone? If We accept the Cincinnati
scale do the feeders suppose that they will
make as much money as they did under the
old scale of wages Who can
stand a twenty per cent cut
the best, the nailers or the feeders If We
make the princely salaries with which we
are credited can we not still make a living
after deducting the percentage? What
will the poor feeder do who only makes a
bare living, as he claims to do2 No sir,
say the feeders are only cutting their own
throats deeper than they are oars By this
reduction they are trying to enforce upon
us. II lhcy would look ahead and see
where the thing will end they will see the
matter in the same hght. Suppose this
move they arc making is success, and the
| feeders learn or trade and work at o re-
duction next thing the manufacturers will
present them aDo'her Cincinnati scale
with probably g:caler reduction than they
| Ciler US.
Will the accent - How ca2 they help
i? The managers will say, we taught
YOU 10 make nails. Grd W. can teach more
feeders lust rs easily And TIE feeders
will be just rs Jealous C them as they are Of
will have Jzperiencei dlmuniyion
at wrges which will make them
dfsrerate enough 10 do S!most anything
Aid so the bail will keep on rolling un,ll
IN n few Years 4 feeders and nalers Will
aE..e be wCrhib2 Tor mothirv and boarding
at the 'rumr. Another thIag cSn moi see
c, arly is this, Wiz does rhe Boycoiter and
tie Ohio Valley Trades ami Labor Assem-
bly, look do@n on Us ana uphold the feeders
in Their demands? have at ended iTo Of
tie meet nga Of The q '. I and l.. Assem-
b r and at rach the principle theme Of all
the speeches made was The organization
srl protection OF labor. They said.
'Urganize and band yourselves together
aud uphold ycur wages No man masses
10 much money 1T is TO the advantage
Of the capitalist, the labo-er, the merchant
and the mechanic 10 allow every man as
mach money as possible for his labor.
Ejgh wagcs make good times and make
tie country prosp.rols. That is al very
well and that is IT" principal 10 which we
sdaeIr Weag an organization and .rata,
Lave done all IN or power TO maintain
rages ard 10 do ,bis wn have implsn'ei the
G-st principle O. protection, that 49, do EOi
cyarcrowd the trade Shat makes
duil times? Our political economists say
over produc'iop What rlakas low
wages? We sag ~ over supply OF work
men. II there ar" more men than slJIa-
tlcns, 'here are b3AHI to 10" scmt Of them
EGHgry. and a hungry man WITH hungry
family Is the surest and worst enrmr 10
rnOd WAGES. II he can GET work 81 good
wages, rather than starv" and see his family
10 want. ne will wOr. for anything he can
gt' We DO nos blame him tor this, tor he
is .impy obey!nI d" inst aud most potent
'aw Oi nature Inr unrs Ne blame are hts
'riiow workmen io- Glowing their 'rnfe 10
ru oyerstocned Nov since the course we
haze parauad for vcral years i5 exactly IN
keeping with the remedies they propose,
how can they say we aye doing wrong. II
hey can show u1 that feeder in taking
machines az q lower rae of wages than was
formerly paid IS not q black sheep We will
feel satisfied II those are union principles
Grd We are adhering to them and the feeders
ar not, what right have they to protection
and we to viliiicationl We hear 8 great
many merchants and others who are ap
parently disintereslcG, Saying well | don't
care how the thing ends 80 som" one goes
70 work and pu's thr money into circnIa'
ten" say it doss make 2 difference aadthey
viii sec il some day. Why, suppose We 20
o work at the neg scale, and do good wOr,
and earn all W. can On payday WE "lIl.
Instead OF drawing the old wages. be pad
a with twenty per cent. less. They
Sag we spend all our money as fast IS we
make it. Well instead OF spending 500
rs formerly, we will only have So or 'wen.
iy-seven per cent Irss to spend; a. it will
not only be the mai ers who cannO' spend
50 much, but it j. the feeders. rollers, heat
erg and their help. 10 it natur6! 10 sur-
pose that % man making ; 30 per day w
wear ~ many shoes and Of rs good qu sirr
or ~ rh-priced rs ne who makes - or
>? Viii he BUY as many dry gOOdsf { n
hr indulge in so many luHures and sp'ad
~ much moHe7 with our merchan -?
When it is remembered tba; the money is
not transferred IRON the uaiIcrs 10 the teei-
ers, the question shows up in diiieren
light The feeders nai!ers, heG era, and
all branches O. skilled labor in our mills
fer alike. Some Of the feeders say re.
yrrge is sweet. Our opportunity to BE-
ayenged on this get Of bosses who have 50
lcrg .ept us IL COLLECTION has come True
rrouch revenge il sToct when that ven
rearCe can De wtea ed upon the hated
ole w;.hous .fa rrloundiDg upon the
avenged with "a force sufficient 70
overlap oil pleasure experienced by the
Others downfall This revenge the feeders
ore hav:rg reminds me OF one who, with his
brain ared by hatred his heart contains,
murders the one towards whom he teeis in
drb;ca FOR some past injIry and then takes
his OWE life to escape The penalty he well
knows will follow. In short it is murder for
revenge on the mailer; and suicide for the
protection OF the Manufacturer We can
surely stand It if they can, aud we feel con
faerf that at some future time they and TIE
community at large will see that the inIu'
rias inflicted are principally upon them
selves,
Another thing: this action Of some few
f-eccrs does not receive universal approval.
,,,sr of our oldes' and best feeders have re.
ed 10 take machines, and som" factories
have even srnt memorials from their feeders
encouraging the move
Far nv part would like to zee every
fac,orv thrown open 10 the feeders simply to
sa,i,iy curiosity have to know "ha, men
are after Jobs.
Lumber Strikers Resume Work.
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