The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-04-27
DOWN ON ITALIANS.
ooNERAoEoR KIMBERLY cvRsEl
by wOrkinsnsn Of wheeling for IntFOdu-
cling cheap Italian Labor to Dig the
Natural Gas DitOh-WhAt Kimberly
HAa to say-VIAvs OF the Company.

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Natural Gas Ditoh-WhAt Kimberly
HAa to say-vIAWS OF the Company.
The employment Of Italian labOrers to
dig the ditch for the Natural Gas Com.
pApy Of West Virginia, by the contractor,
P. L. Kimberly, which wa frat made
known to the public through the columns
OF the I|STELLIaEScRR last Saturday, has
stirred up a great deal OF bitter denuncia-
ton about town: The workingmen con.
denim this step, and have been disposed
to holdthe West Virginia Company joint
ly responsible for it with Mr., Kimberly,
The representatives OF the company here
declare that the company had nothing to
do with the employment Of these men,
aud would not have employed them II 1t
had been seeking labor to dig the ditch,
except as q last resort, alter efforts to
secure the necessary w0rkmen here had
failed. The fact that no such el-
forts we're made, but that the Italians
were brought here from a distance without
any attempt first being made to secure
home labor, IL the principal feature OF the
matter which Ia denounced by the people
Nothing that has occurred here for y long
time has stirred up so much feeling, es-
p~ecially in those parts Of town where day
iaboreis mostly live, though this class is
not alone in GritiCising the importation Of
foreign labor, The step Is very generally
disapprOYed and frequently denounced
MR., %KIMBERLY's VIEW.
A reporter met Mr.. Kimberly yesterday
and asked what he hRd to say in self de.
tense. He responded;
~ have nothing to defend, Mr.. Knight
who take charge OF the labor department
OF this job will begin his work next week
in Hictcry and Mt, Pleasant townships Of
Washington Clunty, Pennsylvania, at least
thirty.tWo miles from this city, There ia
not idle labor enough in those two town.
ships and two more adjoining to start this
work, much less put it through. 1t is all
employed by those who started earlier,
We were kept back for want OF pipe. That
being the case, labor had to be got else
where. The work is in the woods, oyer
fslds and farms. The men will have to
camp out. Mr.. knight has nothing TO do
with their living or quarters they fur:
nish their own. There was no organized
force in Wheeling OF laborera who were
prepared for this kind OF lie; the men
employed by Mr.. Knight were.
"Wheeltng labor had no stronger
claims on Mr., knight than other people.
Hickory and Mt, Pleasant townships
failing TO furnish tho needed men, Mr.,
Knight employed them where they were
to BIZ found organized and equipped for
roughing It, az the Italians arc. Men born
in Ireland, Germany or Switzerland
would have been all the same to him, |
have no doubt"
sam | to understand that you will
have nothing to do with the labor, thenP"
mo, only TO sec that Mr.. knight gets
the work done us tho contract calls for,
| will have all that I can dotO look after
the teams and keep a supply Of pipe on
hands all the time to keep pipe layers and
ditch dlggers at work, There Is a heavy
penalty attached to the contract, under
which | forfeit a sum OF money per diem II
| fail to keep the pipe layers going. There
are two gangs OF them, one Of tWenty'elght
men, the other OF six"
"Where will you got the teams, and
how many will It takeP"
"For the first three or four weeks 1t will
take ut least twenty two.horse teams, The
most Of them | will take from here, but q
large number Of them will be got where
the work Is done. Pipe will be hauled
IRON Huntersville,o Jon the Charters Valley
railroad, Taylorstown and West AleYSn-
der, on tho Baltimore Il Ohio railroad.
The hanls are long; will average at least
eight miles. That Is what | have been
doing away from town for the past two
days-looking up the situation"
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THE COMPANY SURPRISED.
An INTRLIlGENcER representative also
called al the office Of the Natural Gas
Company Of West Virginia yesterday and
introduced the subject Of the Italian
laborers. A representative OF the com.
pany said that the officers were surprised
when they learned that Mr.. Kimberly had
employed Italians. The contract, he said,
was given to Mr.. Kimberly as a Wheeling
man, although his bid was not the lowest,