Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-03-16
A STATE OF THINGS.
Trouble Among Over. the River
Glass Men,
And a Prospect That the LaBelIe and
Buckeye Works Will Shut Down
What is Said.

Yesterday serious differences arose be-
tween the owners Of the La Belle glass
works, at Bridgeport, and the Buckeye
works, at Martins Ferry, and their
workmeu, and the managers ordered
their mixers to cease hlhpg
in the pots until the difficulty is adjusted.
The trouble is rather complex affair, and
has several points from which it may be
viewed. One of the workmen was inter
viewed last night and the purport of his story
is about as follows: When the Buck
eve and LaBelle made their settlement last
winter, soap slabs, ink wells, sponge cups
and shaker salts were put under
GENERAL CLASS,
or, rather, not classified at all Later on
the men gained information which showed
them that the articles mentioned should
be clsssed with common light ware, and
accordingly should be placed in that series
This was done by the Union committee with
out the consent OF the manufacturers and
when the committee conferred with Messrs.
Miller and Dunlevy, Of the two works, q
kick was raised by both sides and strike
ordered BY the Glass Workers Union, un'
less the conditions Of the revised hSs were
complied with. A gentleman interested
in the management of one Of the works
told reporter in conversation about the
following:
when we wanted to settle lsst winter
the men declared they would not work al
the Bellsire list. To obviate this We
MADE some CONCESSIONS
from the list mentioned and the men did
the came, 80 that on the whole, while not
the same as the Belisire list, our compro'
mise was satisfactory to those interested.
This agreement was copied from the
original by Mr.. Dunlevy, OF the LsBeiIe
and Mr.. Miller, of the Buckeye, they being
the only factories interested, the others
having settled their differences before. a
few weeks ago dispute was raised about
the wages paid one OF the employees Mr..
Miller found that according to
his list il was all right and
asked tie committee OF the union
to show up their list and prove the error,
When the three men, Dunleyy, Miller and
the committeeman, met and compared llsts
it was found that Messrs Miller and Dun
lev conceded, but the list belonging tc
, the Union
FFERED VERY MATERIALLY.
This raised dispute, and in the
end the committeeman, it 10 al
legged, acknowledged that two
pages of his list, numbers three auc
four, had been removed and others subsii
tuted which contained changes affecting
the price and numbers Of several pieces o.
ware.
One Of the workmen said last night thai
: the managers had made additions 10 then
list which plsc ed soap slabs, Ink wells
sponge cups and shaker salts oa the list as
common ware. when in reality al! o;ner
factories considered them fine ware and
paid for them ss such, Said he: the
= lists
WERE NOT SIGNED AT ALL
| and the agreement was made verbally and
was to last till July first and specified that
ware not classified as common or fine was
to be decided one or the other afterwards.
What the result will be cannot be kroTn
, before tomorrow, when a special meeting
of the A. F. G. w. u. will be held, al
/ which time it is to be hoped that oil will bs
J settled satisfactorily.