The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-03-15
THE STRIKE Settled.
The Trouble at the Wheeling
Steel Plant Adjusted
AND THE WORKS WILL START
EARLY Next Weck-The Agreement
Amlcably Arrived at-Last Years
Scale again signed-Work'
men act as individuals,

The news that the strike at the Wheel
ing steel plant has been amicably adj
justed and that the works will start up
early next week, will be received with
pleasure by the public in general and es'
pecially by the people OF Benwood, to
whom the cash paid out in wages by
this industry is no inconsiderable item.
The settlement was arrived at yesterday
at the conference between Secretary
Andrew Wilson and committee Of the
employees OF the plant, everything being
tremendously and quickly settled,
The scale signed Is practically the same
as that which prevailed lust year, There
is q slight formal difference, but the ei.
feet In the long run will not make dol
lars difference In wages, The scale Is
not that Of the AmalgamatGd AssoCia-
ton, noryet that ofthe Knights Of Labor,
but one agreed upon by the employees at
a meeting held on Wednesday, at which
they acted us individuals, aud not as
members OF any association, This scale
was presented 10 Secretary Wilson yes
terday forenoon by committee APP
pointed at this meeting, and by him APP
proved and signed after consulting the
Directors by telephone.
Orders were then issued to Superin-
tendent Fry TO put the works In order
for work at the earliest possible moment.
Mr., Fry said last night that the pros
poets were that the plant would be max.
ing steel oHpe more by next Tuesday,
The strike, 1t now turns out, was de-
Clared of at the meeting OF 0'Leary
lodge OF the Amalgamated Association
Of Iron and Steel Workers, held at Ben.
wood last Saturday night.
Thus ends dispute Witch began last
December. In that month the Anal
gapNteA Association presented It's scale,
which the company returned to the
committee without comment. Early in
January the X. OF l.. scale was present.
ed. President Weihe, OF the Analgam-
alton, then declared q strike. After the
X. OF +. SCALE had been signed 1t was
withdrawn, aud the dispute Nv 10 the
authority Of the committee which pre-.
| SVAibCN " w w ~ N tVnA III buu lnlnub
Of tho public, The company gave 1t to
DO understood that 1t would not nego.
tiate with the Amalgamation, and rather
than have any fight with the resident
employees the plant would beahUt down.
Tha gtrlke has gone on without seem.
ingly approach hing any hearers solution,
till last Saturday night, when, as stated
above, 1t was declared of.
Officials Of the company say tho plant
has remained idle not on account Of the
fight over the scale so much as because
the condition ri tho aleel trade did not
Ya4apt startling up. Really the market
Ia no better now, and work Is only re.
sumed to keep the machinery goip: and
the men employed. There Is no profit
in steel to-day,
The new scale expires December 81, as
did tho old one, whereas the Amalga.
matedl AssoClatioR's scale expires
June 40,
The people Of Aenwood were congrat-
ulating themselves last night on the out
come Of the long strike. Tie employees
have been anxious to effect settlement
for some time, and finally took the mat
ter in their own hands and did so.