Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-06-01

doubtless have made q serlous row OF IL,
ant fer the interference of two uninterested
osrsons who held some of the belligerents
7ack, and the timely appearance OF Officer
Cr;sgell and Marshal DARBY. Before this
some of the same pugilistic party had
tackled heater and struck him III the face
twice, and up st the nail works last Friday
one Of the men refusing to pay was doused
With q bucket Of water, and Insults of Vsrl-
Gus kinds have been given, but did not cui-
inmate in any blood-spilhng or bruisIpg OF
faces until Saturday evening. These state
nents are made from the best information
,btainabls, and they serve to show an IN.
,erneeiue war among the local lodge OF
callers tina, bodies 10 good for them. "A
house divided against itself, etc.
From one OF the nsilers who refused to
contribute to the strike fund fer some time
wa learn that the assessments since the
Grst one, which was only 10 per cent, have
asver been less than 20 per cent, and have
baen higher ct times. Once 80 per cent
of tbs earnings for two Wseks vas given
The are PA machines in the Bellsire nail
factory. The average earnings ola lOd ma
chine, which, we are informed, will be about
a fair average OF the machines in the factory,
il from SD TO S24 per week. The ia ma
chimes, taking the lowest estimate, thus
make $2,T2s each week, one halt OF which
is PAID to the feeders, except where self.
feeders are used, so that perhaps 81 200 COW
srs what goes TO he feeders and 81 500 to the
nqiiers. The 20 per cent assessment would
thus ameuat 70 $500 per week. If the
machines were divided ipto foil jobs there
would DO but thirty.one nsilers, or On aver,
of about $40 each week for each one TO pay
into the strike fund; but there are more
than thirt7-oRe nRilers, maybe forty-an
average of nearly 50 per week contriou-
non money. Carrying the average out and
allowing forty psilers to the factory, they
have paid to the support Of the nailers on a
strike elsewhere an average OF about Sz2l
each, or IS, $50 sill told. This only applies
10 the nailers alone. The contributions
nom these works have been much larger
han thig. The total amount, We think,
ig put low at $4,000 or $4,000. 1t will
rsseh probsbly $4,000 or $4,000. The
row Saturday evening developed that there
cas- been a latent feeling against paying
so much for a good while, but nobody
would take q stand against it until recent
" aud this made the blood OF the uuion
men fairly boil, IS they argue that the
nailers who are out and have been for
full year to-day, have remained out to pro
tect the trade, and that the nsilers OF the
Bellairs works are interested as deeply as
,he others snd that they have not simply been
paying 20 cents for the privilege of earn
Jog 50 cents for themselves. They claim
that the men who hssa STAYED out for 8
fulI year earning nothing are staying cut
as much for the men at work as for them
selys, and they are very severe IN their
deuunciation of o refusal to pay, and this
feeling has worked up to such a heighth
that members Of other unions and Others
have begun to make it common talk, and
the mailer disturbance among themselves
ia discussed as an evidence of weakness
not expected ct this stage of the strike. 1t
certainly was accepted Sc such by manu-
facturers and others. Some of the men
VINO refuse to contribute any longer say
that the President of the Nailers Associs-
ton has been paid $l25 every two weeks
lust what his four machines at the Bellsire
so,ks mske-out of the assessment, and
they apply harsh terms to bis management
and declare the course will not be sup
ported longer by them. One who is still
in the Union says Ee will withdraw and
have nothing more 10 do with it. and Quiet
rods Of others were interpreted to mean
an scoutescsnoe in the expression. There
we're some very bold expressions made
about various phases Of the strike
not necessary to repeat here,
but the whole thing can be
summed up as one OF the very unfortunate
occurrences for the cause of the nsilsrs,
because, although the local union is not
directly responsible, it places beyond doubt
the fact hst there are internal discussions,
and has furnished an excuse for the feeders
to talk, so that there is no doubt that the
present strike vill hardly end until the
feeders demand for every man his own
machine. We are surprised at the extent
to which this sentiment has grown, and at
the freedom With which it Wss expressed
and the sympathy among the other labor
organizations it seemed to have.
Some of the nsilers of the Bellsire works
will probably never make any more nails.
Ii is reasonably certain they will not if the
l7.cent scale prevails, and the nsilers who
are refusing support to the strisers evident
~ think the cause is lost. But IL Is not
right thst they should be beat up because
they think that gay. More than the nail
era who have withdrawn support from the
strikers believe as they DO and any violence
only serves to weaken the cause and turn
public sympathy sgsinst the others"
Whether all this is trus or not we cannot
say. 1t may be the facts are much exsg-
gerated, sud that the reported discussions
in the Bellairs Lodge sre more apparent
thar real. Until further facts are sdduced,
the story soas for what it is worth.
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