The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-04-14
A SERIES OF QUESTIONS
PFOpOuRdsd TO the Unltsd AAlsrs In Reply
to Thslr Appeal.
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sIR;-Ths Oyerhsated appeal Of the |
United Eailsrs mRds to their "ielloW
Workingmsn," contains some points in |
regard to which . working man, not a |
mailer, might be curious enough TO ask
some questions,
What do the nailars mean by 'iellow
workingmenP Do they mean the feed
ers, upon whom for twenty years they
have been striving TO riVet the chains Of
ill-paid laborP Do they mean the feeders
TO whose appeals, made again and again,
they have turned not only deaf ear, but,
harder to bear, lofty scorn and con-
tempt? DO they mean the feeders, some
OF whom have gown gray in the service,
aud have been for years fighting against
the heaIt,siCkuesa OF hope deferred,
caused by the broken promises OF nRilem,
that their deserved claims to promotion
should be- recognizsd2 Do they mean
the less skilled laborers, outnumbsring
the nailers probably hundred to one,
who for months and months have been
compelled to endure enforced idleness, in
order that these lordly nailers might
maintain their monopoly OF eight and ten
dollars per day. Do they mean the boil
ers, whom they so promptly and hastily
deserted in the hour Of trial? Do they
mean the woTkingmen OF the AmRlgarpa-
ted Association, fiom which they with
drew when 1t appeared probable that It's
sense OF what was just and fair, as be-
tween workingmsn, might interfere with
the nailers selfish purpose OF having a
monopoly OF good thing, and keeping
it all in the iamily%
Win the United NaileTs explain to out
aide workingmen why they did not re-
specially consider and Rccede to the Tea.
aonable demands Of the feeders for in
creased wagesP VIII the United NailGrs
explain why they have year by year
sc6emed 10 perfect and strengthen a mo.
nopoly Of their labor as against feeders,
managers and all outside labor? viii
they explain why they did not stand by
the boilers, when entreated to do soY Will
they explain why they withdrew from the
Amalgamated Association Win they ex-
plain why, after training in an aristoCratic
crowd by themselves Tor q time, ComplR-
Gently snubbing both capital and outside
labor, they suddenly conceived violent
affection for the heaters and rollers2
They ask working men to aid them In
boyCotting scab nails; they say that
''scab nails are riyets to encollin our
standard Of living" Will the nailers
tell outside workingmen what that
standard OF living" ISL lit is Us re-
ported, eight to ten dollars per day for
the United Nailers, and ami outside work
ingman ID to be deprived month after
,,ankk nj hta InIt0H aud n half rs,
three dollars per day las ho has been
again and again in the last ten years. in
order to keep up the United NRilers'
STANDARD Of living" Is 1t any wonder that
said outside workingmen should be some.
what In doubt as to whether the boycott
should apply to the scab mailer or the
United NallersY
viii the United Nallers, after Cypress.
ing the feeders, as they have done for
years, after sacrificing the boilers as
they did, after deserving the Amalga-
mated Association as they did-explGtn
by what right they assume to say that
'sCRb nails will bury In pauper's graves all
mutual cooperation and reciprocal ser.
viCes2"
iWill United Nailers reconcile their new.
born sollCitude for tho welfare Of working
men in general, with their persistent and
syrRnniCal policy In the past OF shutting
out Of their ranks and their sympathiGs
all other classes Of labor?
viii United Nailers, alter having at one
time and another; turned their backs on
other labor organizations, in the most
cold blooded manner, explain where "the
hot blood OF shame" comes from, that rises
lin their appeal) at the suggestion OF a
fresh betrayal Will United Nailors ex.
plain what they mean by the statement
that the refusal OF the manufacturers 10
accept their proposition "ls blow at the
Eastern manufacturers and at Eastern
workmen as well"2 With the United
Nailers here demanding 2lC and the East.
arm nailers seemingly content with 14c, an
outside workingman might DO curious to
know where the "bloW" comes in.
Will United Nailers explain why they
10 not uBe their influence to get the East
ern manufacturers and nailera with whom
they seem to be on good terns) to raise
the Eastern nailers scale and thus relieve
Wheeling manufacturers from the de-
struCttvo competition OF Eastern.made
nails?
Outside worklngmen are asking these
question:, and people generally arc ask
ing them, and conservative labor organiza.
tons are asking them and ought 10 ask
them, and to have satisfactory answers,
before they aCCede to the demand Of two
or three hundred disContented aud disap.
pointed men, to boycott manufacturers
who are now employing and paying satiS.
factory wages 70 thousands OF laborinR
men, whose claim to the respect and sym.
PATTY OF the community Is certainly as
good as that OF these high.tonad and arts.
tocratic acCusers. When the United Nail.
ers will satisfactorily answer these ques-
tons, outside workingmen will better I'M.
derstsnd how to apply the BoYCorr.
Wheeling, w Va, April Is, 1886.
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