The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-04-15
MANUFACTURERS COMMITTEE
Responds to the appeal of the NAiIOrS' Tx.
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Responds to the appeal of the NAlI0rS' Ex
scutIVs BSard.'
Following Is the response Of the Confer
ence Committee. OF. the Western Nail As
ISOLATION to the public appeal Of the Ex'
ecutiye Board OF the United Nailers
Rollers and IIeatero' Association Of
America:
To The Public:
There are two sides 10 the controversy
now existing between tho United Nallsrs,
Heaters and Rollers Of America and the
Western Nail Association. The ExeCu.
tive Board Of the former have given one
side Of this controversy. We present the
other.
When 1t was aaCertalnel, more than a
year ago, that the Amalgamated AssOCia-
lion Of Iron and Steel Workers, Of which
the Nailers were then members, would
accept a ten percent reduction in their
scale OF wages, ut their meeting. on
the first Of June last, the Nailerg with
drew and formed an association under the
name OF the United Nallers Of America,
to which association has since been added
the Heaters and Rollers. It was obvious
to the Nail Manufacturers that the object
Of that withdrawal was To avoid making
tho reduction that the Amalsamated AS
ISOLATION was disposed 10 accept, and sub
sequently did accept, and 10 compel the
Manufacturers TO pay the price that had
heretofore attained for some years, that
OF twenty.one cents iper keg for cutting
10d nails
Atthis time IA cents was paid at Har-
risburg, Pa, for the same work, and the
price paid at Harrisburg was higher than
the average paid east Of the mountains
and throug hout New England. The manu-
faCturers realizing that they could not pay
the price demanded by the nailers and
run their factories without absolute loss,
formulated Q scale known as the II cent
SCALE an advance Of more than q percent
above the Eastern scale Of prices. This
scale OF prices was submitted by the Sec.
rotary Of the Western Nail Association
on tho 2Sth Of May to the United Nailers
with the additional information that q
Conference Committee had been appoint.
cd 10 coAier with them on the subject. On
the 9TH day Of June the naIlers replied
over the signature OF their President /,
"Our association has presented q scale 10
the manufacturers for their signatures
and our association has made no arrange.
ment for a Conference Committee"
Nothing could be more clearly and posis
lively expressed. From the first OF June
to the last Of July no nails were made in
any OF the mills connected with the West.
er1 Nail Association, and more than ten
thousand men aud boys were kept In en-.
forced idleness, Unless they found some
other employment, because The nailers
would neither work nor negotiate, unless
they received more than 40 percent more
than was paid for similar work east Of the
mountains.
On the 9Th day Of July the manuiaC.
turers gave notice that II the naile1s did
not accept the seventeen cent scale before
noon Of the 18th, their jobs would be va.
Gated and the machines offered TO any
other persons who would accept that price.
The nailers removed their tools on the 22d
day Of July and The manufacturers re.
solved 10 offer the machines TO the nail
feeders and others. One mill after an.
other soon began TO operate theft ma.
chimes with new men, until what the nail.
ers believed to be an inpossibility, that
new men could he taught 10 become com.
petent nAilets III few months, began 10
take such shape and form that the nailefs
began to fear that their calling was In dam
ger.
On the Och Of November, more than i've
months after the Nail Association had
presented their scale and notified them OF
the appointment Of their Conference Com.
mlttee, the nailers advised the manu-.
iactutets that they had appointed an Elk.
eOutlve Committee and we're Eilin0 to
meet the manufacturers. This Executive
Committee had been appointed by the
nallets, al their July meeting, but they
we're not willing 10 meet the lnahuiactuf.
efs until November.
BY this time the manufacturers had
committed themselves 70 the policy Of EN-.
ploying new men aud had entered into
such arrangements aud agreements with