The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-09-10
NAILERS TROUBLES.
MANUFACTURERS ULTIAIATUM
In the Pittsburgh District The Features of
the Caso-A Very Costly striko-An
Operators story-NaII Feeders
Strike ut Youngstown, Ohio,

PITTsBURGH, Sept. 9,-Ths status o.
affairs between the nRilers and manulac
turers at the present time is about the
came as 1t was during the thirteen months
strike,
A reporter interviewed 'every nail firm
in the city in order to learn their iuten'
tons, The reply in every instance was
that the ultimatum oil the manufacturers
is not TO start up the Pittsburgh factories
until the Cincinnati scale is accepted,
Nails are made cheaper in the East aud
West than here, and as soon as they can
be made in this city as cheap as at other
places our nail manufacturers will get the
bulk OF the trade. In other words, they
can run their factories longer than
any nail firm outside OF Pitts.
burRh, "1-eannot SEQ, !" said q prominent
gentleman In the office Of q large hrm,
"What the men expect to gain. They
fooled away very valuable time when they
were idle thirteen months, and they seem
to have acknowledged 1t when q great
many OF them were willing to 90 to work
at the Western card rate. And from the
move they are now taking they are Just
entering upon another period Of idleness,
but for how long no one can tell, The Cou,
dition OF the trade now warrants at least
eight months steady work. You can state
In the papers that the matter will reat
very quietly, and ask the public TO deter
mine the question, Who will win, which
they can tell by simply referring back to
long struggles between men aud manu-
facturers."
"There are now something like $4,000
kegs OF nails In stock, but they are going
OF as fast as possible, owing to the demand
for Pittsburgh nails, which is very good.
OF the stock there will be very little left
in month or six weeks from now. Our
market will be as bareas 1t was when the
factories were started, In the two months
that they were running, WHICH was very
irregular, there were not over "a, 600 kegs
OF nails made In the three factories Of
Jones & Lsughlip, Chess, Cook & Co.,
and Shoenberger i 90. These have
together 280 machines, but not more
Luhu $50 helo buHAAHBI plhpg ud'
cause all along it was impossl.
bic TO get enough OF feeders to
work. Probably little more than II 900
kegs were made at Shoeuberger's factory
and little over $4,000 kegs at Chess
Cook 4 Co.'s factory. Jones 4 LaughlinS
have the smallest nail factory Of ths three,
having G3 machines In which no time was
lost. During the timo that they were
running they turned out fully 1900 kegs,
Moorehead, Bro. 4 90. made probably
about 1900 kegs last month. They have
factory OF 40 machines, but only u were
on about twenty days on iron that waB
made two years ago. The firm closed their
factory when nails were worth 90 Cents q
kvg more than thsy are now. Their mill
is Ntill In full operation, making pipe iron,
which Is rs low In prpG 80 any finished
grade in the Market but they sten 10 bp
eatiatled makinglt II, and 10 long as the do.
maud 10 as good as 1t is now, they will not
turn their attention to making nails. Zug
4 Go. did not start up their factory In tho
two months' run, and furthermore, accord.
ingto their own statement, vi not. Their
demand Tor finished iron la much better
than 1t has been for some yearS. ALI this
shows that our nail manufacturers do not
care for the nail business. As remarked
before, Chess, Cook \ 90. S'e about the
only nail firm In the city. The other mills
do not feel the loss Of tho nail trade, as
their pudding furnaces are all on double
turn, and every finishing department in
full operation.