The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-11-19

good nailets within year, then the tIad'
is not what the naileIs claim il to be. Thei
the nailers will never consent TO 90 u
work with the isedeEB at some. OF the ms
chimes, and the operators are bound II
. honor to keep them there. A settlement
seems impossible, aud the great stumbling
block is the feeders.
As soon rs the feeders began to 60 ID
work the nailers made oyertures and the
matter OF teaching tho feeders the trade
,, was satisfactorily arranged. Preparing fol
bitter fight, the striking nGilers in Pitts
burgh went 10 work and secured other
Jobs ilr at least threeiourths Of the idle
feeders here, aud not one is at work.
The same has been done at other points
in the Ohio Valley and the Two unions are
close together now. This iss new phase
OF trades unionisn. Situations were
cheerfully given in stores aud factories to
the poorest Of these strikers when 1t was
known the il Il renee back Of them.
Not satisfied with this, they
have carried the war into Africa,
and the feeders %Eo are working
are blacklisted and = system OF boycotttnG
has been begun against all mills employing
them The moral support OF the knights
OF Labor Is theirs AMI they x2ect to win
HOW FEEDERS WORK.
The manufacturers have gone right
along paying no attention TO al! these
movements. They have feeders at work
and claim tina. after six months trial the
nails made by them are Just as good as
aay ever turned out, az which Statement.
the strikers smile. Everybody in the mill
watches the Fails as they come out aud
offers his suggestion. AS consequence
the nails are noG equal in quality, but the
machines DO not Turn ont the iull product,
The maauiactureIs say from tTC- birds TO
three-iourths Of the product, and Hgain the
mai or laughs and cites two instances where
| it took seven days aud eight days to make
a CRIED, which ID done by an expert 10
about FIVE minutes. Neither are the feed
ers yet sqQSl IL the management OF Is
many macniats as mailer.
The HaileIs rlaim that the manu;6ctur.
ers have secured about rs maoy feeders
as they can. The rcSt, they cl4i'u, will
stand by them. The weekly statement Of
the manufacturers, they say, shows thu
nu nber OF machines at Work but never
gives the output. They are anxious 10
know this output, "a they expsct the
country TO force the manufacturers TO
give them their prices and are prepared
% stand out for 3 year yet. They are
irmer to-day, and az the end Of six
'ronths not single mailer has deserted
from the union.
FIGURES on THE NAIL FAMINE.
At the beginning Of the strike there
were between 100000 and 100000 kegs Of
nails in stolk in the West, and 300 600
kegs in the East. There are none now.
The make Of nails in 1884 was 1906
kegs. Four hundred and eighty-one nail
machines are running in the Western dit
trict in charge OF natlers at the following
factories: Beliaire Mill, Ohio; .E,na, New
Castle; the Kimberly, Sharon, both hev.
ing signed the scale; the Gfeeucsstle, Ind
which always refused 10 j1in the Manu-.
taeturers' Association Csbbs, Aurora, ILL.,,
where there has never been a union; the
Centralis, H.; the Omaha and Pueblo,
COL, aud the B,!.eviHe, Belleville. ILL.,, all
ot which have signed the scale. With the
500 machines now being run by feeders,
and the Eastern mills, the manufacturers
claim tn: the legitimate demand of trade
Is being filed. They also claim that the
busy season Is over, and that by NIX
spring they will again have stock OF nails
on hand. at these assertions the nsilers
mile PgaiD, and for reply pint to the
retail price Of mai g.
The retail pEice Of the nails has sd' !
vanced, but the manufacturers WHO are
unniu2 have been too smart to be |
caught. They have made nothing. The
Beliaire mill and The factories running |
With feeders have rot put up the card
price above 3 %, because the w0rkers
could then claim that they could aft ri to
pay better wsges This is considered as
one Of the ehrcwdest bits OF diplomacy
the manufacturer have yet done. Three
weeks agl bier who wanted nails
would have had TO PROSTATE himself be-
lore manut5 cturera in more humble posi- |
tons than q heather worshipper before
mis- idol. but to-day il is claimed that East
m nails arc offered at from - % to 81 40
per key. The product Of the Eastern mills
never enters into the Western market
when there ia no strike, but must be taken
account Of now.
AHOPELEss SITUATION.
The manufacturers expect to win this
fight through the feedeH-tbeir one, their
only hope. II through them they can
beat the nailers they are just so much
ahead. The nAilers expect to win because
hey claim right is on their side; because
the manufacturers know they can't make
nails successfully with inexperienced feed
ers, and the broken nail machines in many
a mill proves it, because the demand for
nails will force the manufacturers to accspt
their terms; and because only the lowest
grsda OF feeders are now at work.
They BY thEt the claim OF the demand
being filed now is ridiculous, else why
should the manufacturers every time the
factories shut down increase the output.
Last yea the output in the East WAS in.
creased $500 kegs, but in the West the
increase amounted to geo, 1000 kegs. They
expected large strike, and are prepared
ior'it. Money has come in from unex-
pscted sources, and the union claims to
be stronger than ever now. They ex-
peCted trouble from the feeders, and have
joined them as closely to themselves as
possible, and now see that all feeders
needing work are supplied with it. In
the future, too, they will take care OF
them.
SUMMING up THE CELEBRATED FIGHT.
They are prepared with figures and
flcts 10 prove that they are right And
last, but not least, they have the power
welded bya mighty labor organization,
the knights OF Labor, back OF them. A
power, certainly, with Its blsck-listing.
they are fighting, they say, for freedom.
Who shall Judge whether the workman
carsltsgly breaks his machine? They
fight, 100, they say, against the self.feed.
ing machine and the asCendenCy Of steel
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