Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-05-11
REPUDIATED.
The General Officers Of the United
Nailers
DiscIaim Having any Hand in the Con-
solidation Scheme Their In
dignatiOn---PrOtests
Coming In.

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" certain of the members of the United
SAilers to take that organization back into
,hs AmalQamated Association created
vreat deal ofsxcitement about the general
headquarters of the strikers yesterday.
There was q good deal Of indignation as
well on the part Of not only the
general officers of the United Nailers, but
also among the members Of the various
lodges, and REGIsTER reporters who circu-
lated shout among the men found anything
INIT the great unsuimity among
hem in favor Of the change, alleged by
Hose who tirst furnished the details OF the
psoisct to the press. In fact, the prepon'
dersuce of sentiment seemed TO be hostile
70 rs-enteriug the Association, and even
those who were avowedly in favor OF such
a course seemed somewhat frightened at
the hornets nest they had stirred up.
Among the officers of the United Nallers
there Was very pronounced feeling OF IN
diguatiou, arising from the peculiar word
ipS of the article published in the News
Letter of Sunday, which seemed TO have
been written with the studied intention oil
having the casual reader believe 1t was In
spired BY the officers, and this feeling was
| intensified By the tone of the lntellgencer
article in relation TO the same matter.
President Wier said: We want 1t dis
tiuctly understood that the officers OF The
United Nailsrs have nothing whatever ode
with the scheme. The first knew fit va:
when picked up the News Letter Sunday
The project seems to have been gotten uE
entirely BY individual members OF ouI
order, and vet. when reading the printed
outline, it seems to lack nothing but ouE
signatures to become official,
Vice President Ripley said; We are In
diguant that we should have been so grossly
misrepresentsd. Our officers knew nothing
about it until they saw it in print Iele
yrsmS aud letters are coming IN from ouI
lodges asking What il means, and protest
ing against sny sttsmpt TO Fe-enter the
Amalgamated Two lodges across the
river have already sent forward protests
and many individual members of the city
lodges sre emphatic in their condemna
lion. have talked to many matters to-day
and ind nearly sill OF them opposed to the
matter. IL is represented that our men arr
almost solid in favor of consolidation, wher
the fact is that not half OF them favor 1t
Tne publication in the Newsletter, from
its peculiar tenor, gave many the impres
SION that II WGs seui-Oficisl, at least
The News Ietter is not the organ OF The
United Nsilers; it has forced itself on US
with the aid Of one or two of our officials
that is all. The lntelEgencer comment
are equally distssteful to US. As an OH
Ger of the Association, know nothing o
the movement, and as an iudigid
nal mailer, believe consolidation Woult
be bad thing,
Treasurer Pugh was equally emphatic il
his remarks, and expressed regret that tn
parties giving the matter to the press haC
not put their names to it. or at least &C
Quilted the officials of any completely II
the matter.
Secretary Chew had not reached hom'
10 to dark, bat his brother officials said b
would fully concur in the sentiments the.
had expressed.
Mr.. Newt Linch, who is, by common cos
sent, fixed upon as the gentleman who fur
nished the matter TO the press Sanda!
night, Yesterday disclsimed having been 1t
author, but admitted going to tbs News
Letter Office and cutting out" certain por
tions Of the manuscript. He also said tn
proicct did not originate in this city, a
stated by the Newsletter, but in tn
West.
The Associated Press yesterday sent on
the following telegram from Pittsburg II
relation to the matter:
PrrTsBURG. May l0-At the annual con
vention of the Amsigsmsted Association
to be held in this city on June s, peti
ton signed By nearly every member of tn
United Nsilers, Rollers aud Heaters Asso
citation. asking to be received back int
the Amslgsmsted Association will be pre-
scented. The petitions are now in circula
ton. 1t is understood that the nsilers aut
officers Of the association ere sluost unsn
imously in favor OF returning TO the Ode
organization. The Jnired Nsilers, Roller
aud Heaters Association Is composed o
all the nailers Of the West and of the roller
and heaters ofths Wheeling district.