Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-03-11

The Falcon Nail Works, at Niles,
O., Starts To-Day,
Having Signed the Compromise ScaIe---
Action ofthe Western Nail ASsccia-
tion---The Weekly Nail
Statement.

Nail mill number four has signed the
compromise scale. This latest addition to
the list of manufacturers who have &C
cepted the Mingo scale is the Falcon Iron
Works, at Miles,. O., and the good news
was waited over the wires in the shape OF
the following telegram:
NILES, o., March 10.
To J. K. Wier, President:
The Falcon Nail Works start tomorrow
on the MiDgo compromise.
B. W. TALBlTzER.
This information wss Somewhat unex.
pec,ed to the large msjoriIy of the nailers.
aud as it was at once oullstlned IN front OF
the REGIs Err office, an eager and JGollant
crowd was shortly around 1t. The COM
ments of the nsilers were varied, but oy
most it was taken as an indication that
nothing was to be hoped from the manu-
facrurers' meeting ia Cincinnati, and that
the Falcon people, having been advised OF
the situation, had concluded TO
CUT LOOSE
from those carrying on the lockout and
start up at the compromise scale.
MeeEing Secretary Chew shortly after
the receipt of the news, he was asked Tor
additional information, when he said:
II knew last night that the trouble with
the Falcon mill was at an end, but for the
best of reasons it was agreed by the Of
fcers OF our orgsniz alton to keep the mat
ter a secret for twenty-iour hours. The
works will start tomorrow morning. The
mill contains torty,seven nail machines
and employs about one hundred men.
Or course the start is good thug for US,
putting o number of men to work who have
heretofore been contributing nothing TO the
support OF the strike, aud they will now
add to the income of our organization.
There was great anxiety during the day
to obtain
NEWS FROM CINCINNATI,
and several rumors Of q rather ex
travsgsnt and sensational nature
were in circulation. Toward even
ing it became known that the
old scale bad been reafii.med, but nothing
further WAS learned until late last night,
when the following was received:
AT a meeting of the Western Nal
Association to day, the following was uuau
imously adopted:
Resolved, That we re-afliirm our adher
ence 10 the manufacturers scale, believing
it to be fair and equitable to the workmen,
and essential 10 the success of the nail bus
mess of the West;
Resolved, That We renew our assurance
to the workmen now working or who may
hereafter work under the manufacturers
scale, that they shall retain their positions
undis,uroed by either compromises or COM
biuatiOns;
WHEREAS, Tie Conference Committee
appointed at meeting OF this Association
held Plttsburg, February 10th, has pre-
scented report OF it's proceedings at con
terence held with q cOmmiuee OF the
United Nailers Heaters and Rollers As.
ISOLATION in Wheeling, February 24lh;
therefore, cit
Resolved, That the report be accepted,
and the action Of our committee be unsn'
imously endorsed and ratified and the
com miItee continued; and,
WHEREAS, the committee from the
United Nailers, Heaters aud Rollers As
ISOLATION, during ths Deliberations OF the
conference, took occasion to say repeated
ly that our present worSmen have taken
their places, and in order to convince them
that they vera in error in this particular,
therefore, be 1t
- Resolved, That the workmen in our
employ prior to the first of June 1885, for
fsired all claims they had upon said places
when they removed their tools from our
factories; that from the date of said re-
moval we have considered the situation at
our disposal, and that we so consider the
situations yet remaining vacant in our
mills, and again extend our invitation to
the feeders and others to take employment
with US, and more especially the feeders in
those mills where naiiers are feeding the
machines to the detriment OF the former
feeders
The association then adjourned.
AT PlTTSBURG.
a Pit'sburg mailer said Yesterday:
Should the manufacturers, and espe-
cially the Pittsburg men, refuse to Sign
the compromise scale, or decide the strike
in soma way to-day, it eau be taken as an
indication that no nsits will be msnufsc.
tured in Pittsburg until after June first
Why? Well the reason is obvious.
If the scale is not signed to day
The Western Nsilers' Union will
Imedistely return to its first
love and rejoin the Amalgsmsted Associs-
ton, which by the way they should not
have left Then when June comes the
scales of the entire iron and steel industry
will have to be settled for the forthcoming
year. In such good company as that the
nailers would insist upon receiving their
Picard rate for which they first walked
out, and beyond G doubt would receive
tharr nun terpns y