Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-02-08
THE STEEL SITUATION.
NO CHANGE AT THE RIVERSIDE PLANT
YESTERDAY.
A Notice b Nalsrs Posted at the Faaory-IranO
Master Workman COnklin Publishes a
Communication.

The condition of things at the Riverside
works was unchanged yesterday. "nen
the morning and afternoon turns went 10
work at the steel plant there were more
than four times enough K. OF L. men 70
fill the vacant positions, and everything Is
running full and smoothly. No further
move has been made by the Amaigamated
Association men, as it is understood tney
are waiting for some word from head
quarters. .,
Manager Hearne was seen yesterday ana
he said:
1--WE are running along all right and an
ticinate no further trouble. The plate
mill went on yesterday and the skelp mill
employees have informed me that the are
ready to resume work whenever the mill Is
ready TO start. We want all our old men
IN stay with rs, but, of course, ii they DO
not care to 20 to work, we secure
others to fill their places. / think alto
gether, so far, about 100 men have refused
70 return to work, and all their places nave
been filled. / cannot say whether the nail
ers will all return to work Thursday morn
ing or not, but l hope so. They Will all De
given work if they determine to do so,
and we would prefer to have them all Win
u.s."
The following notice was posted ut the
Riverside factory yesterday morning:
NOTICE TO NAILERs.
Both nail factories will resume work
next Thursday morning, the 9th OF Febrn-
arv, at the usual hour. The l6-cent scale
of wages will be paid.
Any mailer failing to report for duty
without good cause, will be required to re-
move his tools from the factory and vscate
his Job. RIVERSIDE IRON Works,
f. J. HEARNE, Manager.
The fact of this notice soon became gen
orally known, and it resulted in = call for
a meeting of Nail City Lodge OF Nailers, to
be held this morning ut 3 O'Clock, at
Moran's Hall, on the South Side, when one
OF the officials of the Amslgamated Asso-
ciatloD from Pittsburg, possibly President
| Weihe or Secretary Martin will be present.
At this meeting it will be fully decided
what course to pursue Oh Thursday morn
ing.
An Amalgamated mailer was seen last
evening, but he said he had no idea rs to
| what decision would be arrived ut In the
meeting. He, however, was Of the opln-
ion that the men who. were members OF
the organization would refuse to go to
work. Another mailer said:
al think it was a mistake in the first
! place for the Amalgamated people to de-
clare a strike Instead of doing that they
| should have had q conference with the
K. of l. people and the manufacturers
and attempted to settle the matter
quietly in that manner. They
have now put themselves in Z position
from which they cannot we'll retire, and
the other would nave been much the bet
ter plan. l think there will be a very few
who will fail to return to work on Thurs
day morning
Grand Master Workman Conklin Of the
Iron Workers District K. of L., from Har-
risburg, who has been in the city several
days, looking into the matter of dispute,
hands in the following communication,
WnlCn Will 6Aplalu lISeil'
To the Editor ofthe Register:
SIR:-Siuce the signing of the X. of L.
scale at the Riverside Steel Works, quite
"a discussion has arisen. In the Labor TIL
buRe of February 4tb, an article appears
stating that it is the policy Of the h. of l..
to fltten On the suspended and expelled
members of regular trade unions. We only
speak of what we know in connection
with our own trades-irOn and steel work
ems. This article is supposed to refer TO
the National District Assembly, No. PIT,
Iron and Steel Workers. In the first pace
We brand this NJ a 'lie, " as our National As
sembly traces its origin back TO l. A,
5543, vi Harrisburg. Pa, and said Local
Assembly back to Washington Lodge OF a
4. OF / & S. W., OF Danville, Pa, which
Lodge the Amalgamated Association de-
serted V hen on a legalized strike a few
years Ago. The article of the Tribune also
calls this District Assembly OF Iron and
Steel Workers . bogus Iron District"
and goes on to say, 1T cannot be regarded
AS u factor in the iron and steel world here
after. And if cutting wages down below
the Amalgamated Association scales Is any
benefit, the Iron District can be relied
upon tn secure it, as at Mingo Junction
etc. Now for a fair decision on this. We
leave it to the tair minded work
men to decide. In the first
place, our scale Is above the one To- in
operat on at Mingo Junction, and signed
by the A. A. of /. & S. W., and in various
positions on the scale it is above Bellaire.
1t is further stated the members of the
Amalgamated Association were discharged
ployed by said company were notified to
report for duty on Monday morning at
5:35 O'clock, and at the same time in the
evening, and the places of all those who
did not report would be declared vacant
and other men hired to fill them. All
those belonging to the Am~algamated AssO-
citation. with one or two exceptions, did
not report, but every one belonging to the
X. Of l.. reported for duty, notwithstand-
ing the statements Of some of the high Of
ticials of the Amalgamated Association
that over thirty of the X. of l.. tonnage
men would not report tor duty when the
time came.
We shall follow this with a scale of
wages paid at Riverside, the X. Of l..
mills, and Junction and Bellaire mills,
Amalgamated Association, and then show
other facts where there are differences he
tween the scales of the A. A. mills greater
than between the K. of l.. and the A. A.
MASTER WORKMAN CONKLIN,
National Assembly l. & S. w.
THE GLASS STRIKE.
A Possibility That a Compromise May be
Reached.
Negotiations for q settlement of the