The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-10-28
BOYC0TIERSAT WORK.
a eoMMITEEE oN IEs RovNps
Headed by a Pad Professional BOycottsr,
Who Lives by Fostering Difficulties
business Men IuSultsd- Condemned
ton out OF Their Own Mouths.


ton out Of Their Own Mouths.
The committee Of h~oycotters was circu'
lating yesterday. Its methods Of working
could not he learned, but at the head Of
the "committee'' was the man AskeW,trom
Pittsburgh, who 10 making his living by
stirring up the affair, He was brought
here from Pittsburgh on salary, and her.
aided as q man who chad wide experience
ia directing strikes and conducting boy
COTS" A man without any interest in
Wneeling, unknown to- It's people, o pro-
lefsionel ~RgitAtoT, was paid TO come here
and stir up hard feeling In
the community, Presumably he
has begun his work. So far
the only manifestation reported Ia the in.
gulting Of a business man or tive who had
the manhood to do what they believed to
be right-Order the boycotters out OF their
place when they appeared several weeks
ago, One OF the men enHagedin the work,
presumably q member o 1.-THE COMMITTEE"
used language on the street which
would have subjected him to o heavy
fne in the police court had no been pros
ecuted, This, 1t Is fair To infer, Is the pre-.
liminsry stage Of Askow'a end Of the boy
colt,
ONE OF THE RFFEcTs.
a well.kpoWn manufacturer met an
.I%STkLLlGRNCR reporter yesterday, and
showed him q circular from the Secretary
Of the Chamber Of Commerce, In which
WA this paragraph;
"The Chamber respectfully requests
that you will inform the secretary what
amount, in money or in suitable property,
you would invest In tho new interests pro-
pssed to be located within the city limits,
provided you can be satisfied that there Is
i reasonable prospect for safety and profit
for such investment"
"What encouragement, asked the gen.
tleman, "ia there for q man with money
to put II into a manufacturing establish
ment? Here is o man who poses
"a q labor leEdsr gets up in q pub
lie Injecting and says il o certain
business enterprise is not making money
enough to justify the investment 1t repre-.
sents, II or Two Of the owners should
get out. Do you suppose q mar will put
capital into anything II there iB no pros.
pect Of ito earning fair dividends?
Not much. You papers arc
wasting your efforts In attempt
ing 10 "bo0m the old town" when there
iH 4 cot Of men, few in number, but al.
mighty active, spreading the impression
broadcast that the conservative, reRsOnu-
BILE, oIder.loving people are III a minority
here. OF course that Is a false impreE-
sion, but lis circulation does last Rs much
harm as II 1t were true.
AaIGNIFIcANT ADHESION.
The organ-oI the late employees Of She
morning newspapers says the Interns.
tional Typographical Union has not re.
fused to Countsnance the strike here that
the International Union 'has nothing 10 do
wih q demand for an iHcreated scale"
Yet the men who, sbstted and advised by
outsiders, urged on and precipitated the
trouble, assured the printers that the In.
ternational Union would pay each OF
the printers 81 Q week while idle; as wit.
neas the testimony OF one Of the printers
who allowed Themselves to be deceived
into throwing away good positions 10 aid
the selfish gchemeB Of other men. This
testimony, and much more Of interest, Is
contained In the following communication,
which was printed in yCstCrday's Regiser:
70 The Editor Of The Register:
sR,--The printers Of Wheeling made a
serious mistake in striking for an advance
oil wages, and | for enc now see It plainly.
I fear, however, that it 10 too late to rem.
ody the damage that has been done. /
intend nov to speak my mind, for I be.
lieye some OF my fellow strikers are being
kept in the dark by the leaders, just as !
have been, until my eyes were accident.
ally opened.
In the lrst place the strike was con-
ceived and carried out by men Of shiftless
habitp, who had not 8 dime 10 lose. |
noticed that the sober, industrious men
OF families were not favorable to 1t. This
latter class were mlsled. Very fair prom.
isea were made TO US by the leaders, not
one otuhich has been fulfilled. Mark that.
now tes plainly that the promises
were made without authority, and the
leaders knew thst they could not fulfill
them.
Rra-They assured Us the proprietors
would make q show Of resistance, but that
we had the power TO force them to terms
and they would yield In less than a week.
This has not been verified.
&oond-They teld us that all the work.
ingmen Of the Ohio Valley would join us
in boyCotting the papers. The fact Is,
the great mRjority Of the workingmen
do not sanction the strike for IN ad.
vance during these dull times, and are
dsmning Us for making fools Of ourselves
and attempting to drag them into the
trouble.
hird-We were told to insist on forty
cents per thousand and we could compro.
miae on thirty.seven and a hall. But
when the opportunity for compromise was
at hand the leaders succeeded In making
forty cents our ultimatum, and proceeded
to iDjure the property Of the proprletors
by boycotting, thus cutting OFT all hope
OF a settlement.
Eurh-I come now to the most DELHI.
crate and heartless lying Of the whole
batch. The leaders assured us that the
International Union would give each Of
jus 81 per week. But the International
Executive Board has refused 10 sustain our
strike, and the leaders must have known
that this would be the result, for they
were we'll posted on the laws Of the In.
ternational Union, one Of which is, 1t now
t%ranspireg, that no strike for an adCdnce can
be sustained BY The International.
The above facts have been kept In the
dark. l propose 70 let the public know
them. A DiSGUsTBp Striker.
A wheeling Man Married.
Yesterdays Pittsburgh Commercial Ga.
.ste says. Mise Lydia 4. Wood mad Mr..
Homer :. Dodley we're married last night
the Rev. R. T. Miller, OF the Bingham