Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-10-14
AGAIN AT WORK.
Tge wAREHOUSEMESS STRIKE SETTLED IN
SHORT ORDER.
The Question Of Wages Drawn Up-Ths Hours u
Constitute Week-Ths Full Text Of the
Articles Of Agreement.

The wholesale section of Main street
had less the appearance of a busy mart
Yesterday than for some time past. Inc
great piles of goods in the wholesale
grocery stores remained religlously I'M
moved. and the whirr OF job wagon
wheels was hushed. All the employees
of the wholesale grocery and candy
stores has gone out.
As was forestated in yesterdays REG
IsrER the proposed new scale OF prices
was submitted to the firm OF Joseph
Speidel & Co. early yesterday morning,
and that firm refused to sign. Inc
scale submitted by the Warehousemen' $
Union in brief was to the effect that
after October 18th, 50 hours constitute
weeks work, hustlers to get
minimum price OF SO a week, ana
SO. 80 for all porters receiving less than
$40 at present, pOrters receiving SO or
more to get Sl1.50, also $1,000 Tor drivers
of one-horse wagon, sig Tor two-horse
wagons, and Sl3 per week Tor transfer
wagon, all over time to be at the rate oil
30 cents an hour. In another circular
the Warebousemen's Union demanded
of employers that none but Union men
be employed, and when in need OF help
the Store Committee Men to try and
supply their wants with Union men, and
II not promptly securing the necessary
help, the employers to have the right to
employ whom they please, provided he
consent to join the Union.
Upon the refusal of Joseph Speidel
e Co. to sign the scale, all the Union
drivers, hustlers and pOrtcrs employed
by the firm to the number OF about
twenty, went out on strike. All the
wholesalers, members of the Merchants
Protective Union, were Immediately
notified, and Il general lockout ensued,
all the wholesalers requesting union
men in their employ to withdraw
which they did. AT the establishment
OF Hoehlc, Ellis & Herbert one driver
and one porter went out; at Iarnits
Bros. & Co. one driver went out; at
Hubbard & Paull's three men withdrew:
at Michael Reilly'S three drivers and
five porters; at NELL Il Ellingham'S
four drivers aud six porterS; at &. 5.
Feeney's two porters and one driver;
and at Simon Baer's Sons some twenty
two men.
About the middle OF the afternoon
there was meeting at the Office OF
Horkheimer Bros. of committee OF
three from the Warehousemen's Union, |
consisting of Michael Roam, Peter
GIule and Joseph Shuler, and com
mittee of three from the Merchants
Association. consisting OF w. III. Filing
ham, j. T. Goodwin and Morris Hork-
heimcr At this meeting, which lasted
about an hour. no satisfactory settle
ment could be arrived at, ard it was
finally voted to refer the matter TO the
Arbitration Committee of the Trades
Assembly.
Accordingly at eight o'clock last even
ing three members, Chairman WIN.
Frohmc, Roman Dobler and Jerry
Meade, of the arbitration committee
Of the Trades Assembly met the con-
ference committee from the Merchants
Association, consisting Of MeSsrs.
Goodwin and Horkhcimer
at the same place. After being in
session nearly three hours the following
articles of agreement were drawn up
and signed by the committees, and the
difficulty was adjusted in short order:
ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT.
Article lst.-On and after October II,
1880, fifiv-nine hours constitute weeks
work.
Article 2nd.-The minimum price fixed
for hustlers shall be SIN day, and $3.50
week after the man has been in the employ
n tho houCa cix months
Article 3d.-The minimum price for por-
ter shall be Sl0.50 week.
Article 4th-The minimum price is fixed
NJ $40 for driver OF one horse wagon, sll.25
for two-horse wagon, and $3.50 for three
horse, or transfer wagon.
Article 5th.-All over time shall be fixed
al thirty cents an hour.
The above schedule agreed upon is TO 90
into effect on the 18th inst, and remain in
force for the full term of the year.
The iobbers 10 reserve the right to en-
ploy and discharge their men for just and ;
cause, and express no objections
10 their men joining the union.
NJ. HoRKHEIMEg, WIN. FRonME, JR,
Chairman. Chalrman. ,
WIN. ELLINGmAM, ROMAN DoBLRR,
! ~ GoopwIy. JERRY MEADE,
for Merchants Pro FOR Arbitration Com
tectiye Associa- mittee of Trades
alton. Assembly,
II is understood that the discussion
in the conference was warmly IN the
matter of the various wages, the ques-
lion as to whether the firm should en-
ploy or discharge the employees being
disposed of with little legislation. There
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