Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-01-09
A PITTSBURG RUM0R
Of Which Wheeling Manufacturers
Know EOthing.
Talk Of the Steel Nail Being Doomed to "A
Certain Extent ---The
Boycott.

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that
The nail manufacturers Of this city
have been holding several meetings late.
II fer the discussion OF scheme 10 reg
ulate the production Of nails. They are
/ certain OF succeeding, aud feel sure that
/ they can secure enough feeder ngilers 10
/ run their machines when they want 10
atart up again They feel the necessity Of
having some stricter association aud OF
MAKING MORE MONEY.
Some two or three years ago the asso.
citation had such strict arrangement.
TIE output OF the factories was limited but
every owner could sell as he pleased
/ They had q scale Of prices aud kept up tc
il pretty well, but they were not placing
any high premium on strict observance
Of the scale They made money by the
arrangement, but like all other desirable
| things, it didn't last Some of the oper.
ators saw such very good thing that they
walked in and for the last two years each
/ factory has been making Just as many mills
as it could dispose Of.
When the strike commenced last sum.
mer there were between 400, 900 and 500
! 600 kegs OF nails on hand. Since then
ISL machines run by union men and 800
by feeders have been going on and seemed
TO svrrLY THE TRADE
in some sort Of way, at least. The total
output in 1891 WAS 800 600 kegs, and
the operators say there ID not enough trade
t. consume this amount TO remedy it
they want the old rules Of three years ago
enforced, A certain number OF days will
be set apart FIR running, aud the price
will be strictly lived up to-
This was shown 10 Wheeling manu-.
tacturer last night, when he said
"Tha, is all news 10 the manufacturers.
in this city ! don't believe meeting has
Oeen held for any such purpose The
statement in regard to the arrangement of
three years ago is not accurate, either
lEen we did not limit the production, but
merely had an understanding ss 10 the
frequency and duration Of stoppages, so
thar all would be on the same footing. |
don't believe there is any disposition to
have the Association limit the time Of
running the mills.
Il see this Pittsburg article goes on to
say that the steel nail is
DOOMED TO A CERTAIN EXTENT"
said the reporter.
That's news too; in what particular is |
it doomsdY
The writer says all factories which are
forced to buy their steel blooms will have
to 90 back 10 making iron nails 1t is
either this alternative or the price of some
thing must come down to permit any
money to be made on even the smallest
investment. Nails are selling at - 80 per
keg nov. with the usual discounts and are
perhaps tritle dearer than they will be
when all the factories are running, A ton .
OF steel blooms costs $50, and about twenty
kegs Of nails can be made from it, The .
cost OF rolling and heating is 81 20; cut .
ting at nailers' scale) s 20; kegs, - 10, /.
shesr'rg, 10 cents; packing, 10 cents; I
bluirg, 10 cents, and coal - 90, which .
makes total OF 81 or - b keg with. /
out any allowance for wear and tear or Re
pairs The price OF steel will
20 ur INSTEAD or down
and il is the opinion Of experts that all /
factories buying steel must either return to
making iron nails or put up steel plants.
That all nonsense, said the manu- .
facturer. There is hardly correct esti
mate in tho whole lot Steel is not $50, .
but $50, and the other estimates are gener
ally off, The article is calculated to mis-
lead
How is the boycott coming ont"
ooh, it is not hurting US at all. We .
have never had o key Of nails come back
on US. This clipping from the, Chicago .
Tribune Of Wednesday will give you an
idea Of how 1t works.
The clipping is reproduced, as follows
yesterday a Tribune reporter called .
Manager Of the Calumet Company, who .
assumed control January / and who ex
pressed himself as not DESTROYS of discuss.
ing the situation in view Of the fact that
he was new element in the management, .
At the time the union men went out there
were l%i machines running full time, and .
in December seven machines were started
up aud the number Of men and machines .
are being
DAILY INCREASED.
The company fail to see how they can be .
boycoIted, because they make standard
cut and shaped nail, such us is manutac.
ured by the other makers Of the Western
Association. Nails are put up in kegs,
upon the head Of which is the trademark
AID brand Of the maker, but az there is no
symbol or mark upon the nail itself the
nails may be sold under some other brand
by simply transferring them to other kegs.
There are many iobbers and retailers now
carrying boycotted nails who not only find
an easy market for them, but are daily re-
plenishing their stocks from boycotted
firms
How are thy going to boycott u.s.
asked Mr. Lewis They might agree to
boycott the weather or the Chicago river,
but the latter would at least
FIND Az OUTLET SOMEWHERE.
| can understand how corner grocery,
butcher shop or apothecsrys could be boy
cotted by people living in the vicinity, but
fail to see how they can impede our
sales
Mr.. Spencer, OF Hibbard, Bartlett &
Spencer. said This action does not bear
any more significance than one grain OF
sand on the sCashCre. We are selling Ca.
lumet nails, and shall continue to buy them
as long rs the price ID right
Mr.. A. + Seeberger, OF The late firm Of
Seeberger, Brsakev y Co, said The boy
colt might affect the city trade little in
keg tots, nut those who sell A third hand
would have no means of Knowing whose ,
nails they were handling after tEey had
been dumped out OF the kegs We shall
buy all the Calumet nails We require. 8
Other iohhsrs such rs William Balm ~ {
Co. ana kei:k Benham y Dezendorf,
thought that the threat Of boycott was
VAIN ONE
The reporter nsx, called upon some of {
the laryest deslers ard learned from Mr. {
Bliss, Of Kellogg, John,oa n Bliss, that the {
boycott would prove Intellectual We !
don want to snHgonjtA the workmen, /
said Mr. Bliss, but We shall continue 10 r
buy he proiRct Of the c ,lumet plant and I
| think that there are los OF contractors !
who would kick a workman eff seventh '
story sclf'yld who refused to drive the f