The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-09-03
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was the topic OF conversation in all
quarters yesterday,and the account Of the
Of the conference between the
managers and the strikers committee,
Monday night, printed exclusively In
the lNrELLloEScEH, was read with avid.
ity. Great regret vas felt ovcr the
Tact that the two sides to the controversy
did not settle their differences ut the
conference when they seemed 80 close
together. Ono stran 10 thing was the
almost universal sympathy OF the
people for the strikers. Men who
were never before known to feel kindly
toward n striker, expressed the deepest
Interest, and hoped that tho men might
win. Among tho strikers more cor.
sentative friends there was a fear that
they might DO led to do something rash
which would lose for them the sympathy
and approval Of the public. A gentle.
man who has been iorcible In his ap.
prevail OF the mems cause, aud who was
no less strong In denouncing tho com.
pany's manner OF treating the men, said:
III tho men will Just keep cool and or.
derby, stay sober and leave all expires.
4ions Of anything like a sentiment Of
boycotting ont Of the question, they will
surely win. They have the right on their
side, aud the managers OF the company
by their actions show that they know Il
as well as anyone"
On tho South Side, the sentiment in
favor. OF the strikers was particularly
well developed. Business and profes.
sional men united with workmen in
their kindly expressions for the strikers
A was shown in the INTELLiagScKn's
exclusive account Of the conference helt
Monday night, there were only two
things on which there was any disagree
ment. John 0'Brien's case was moi
finally disposed Of, although the CON,
mittee informed Messrs. Sweeney aut
uptrgraf that Mr.. O'Briep could b.
bro light to the cllce in O few minutes
they assert that when that offer wa.
made. Mr.. LOTUS said he was not pre-,
pared to see him.
In the matter OF wages and hours, there
was quite a long discussion. Messre
Sweeney and Uptegraf had figured ouI
what the men on the Elm Grove rogt
are paid per hour, and submitted 1t tc
the men as 81 &c for nine hours work
The committee protested that there II
quite q difference between their condi
lions aud those OF the Elm Grove men
The fact that the Elm Grove men worl
under shelter while they are out in tn.
weather was brought up as a strons
point in favor OF their receiving more
paw than the others.
The matter was discussed at length
till finally i! was minated that no mat
teT how good an oller Was made to tht
strikers committee, it could not settle
Mr.. Carroll asserted the committed
power to settle. ami asked that an offel
be made. After 9 few minutes Mr.. Up
tegratf proposed that they should nay
81 so Tor nine hours work, and the com
mittee expressed Its willingness to &C
cept it. MIR. Sweeney then interposed
and objection, saying in effect that hi
would not break up the company for thu
sake oia healeabis settlement With any
set OF men.
Ten and a hall hours was then pro.
posea as days work, to be paid for a
81 90: This the men refused, and tbt
meeting adjourned at the suggestion o
Mr.. U~ptegraf.
Alter .he meeting adjourned, Mr
Sweeney said that lie wab going ava,
asaip. and lett the impression that IL
was to return to a summer resort on the
St. Lawrence, where he had been before
be came home to attend the meeting O
the d~iGectoT5. He returned home las
night, however, on the 9:l0 p. m. train.
An 1NTELLIGEScEG reporter had q talk
with a strikes ~ycct:;day with q view te
finding out why they did not accept the
company's offer OF 81 90 for ten and hal
hours time, with the half hour for din
neg. ~ reR.yy to this query, the striker
who was one Of the conferences romHlit
tee, said: "We do not kick on ter
hours verk gor on 81 90 for that much
time, but We do object 10 a broken day
Now. the reason we accepted Mr.. Upte
graf y proposition OF 81 so and nine
hours work, which Nj. Sweeney re,
fused to concur in, was because, with
the company running its cars eighteen
hours a day, rs they now do, 1t would
give two men q days work each, straight
away. Now ten and a half hours at 81 9C
is only q GENT less an hour, and would
not bio so Objectionable EXCEPT that il
would break a days work into such I'M.
equal pieces that neither man OF the two
VINO work the eighteen or nineteen
hours would get a full day.
"The m9tter Of wages and hours is not
as much to Us as The way the hours are
to be put in. For example, under the
old system a man to make a day would
get out at / q. IN. and run on the Ben
wood line till LAO a. m. By the time
be got his car of hishandssnl got home
to dinner it would be / p, m. He then
had to report for duty on the North
Wheeling run at ! p. n. and work till
the cars were run in, usually 1l:3O p. m.
Against he got to bed it Yves 1890 or l
a. M, md he had to report again at 1 a.
m. What we want is two shifts of men,
be their time nine or ten hours, aud
eech shift to work a day continuously.
II the company TaItg to run
extra cars during certain hours In
the day, and does not need
those cars for nine or ten hours
continuously, let them have special men
to be paid by the month, work or play,
and not mig those extra cars up with the
regulars SO as to denoralise the whole
system. II they would try such a plan,
and get some system into the whole
business, l think it would pay them 80
well that they would not care 10 discon-
tinue 1t. There is plenty Of work about
the different departments Of the road for
them to put these extra men ct when
they are not running the cars.
Another man said:
"With regard to making a settlement
OF the strike, on the old basis, q major
OF US would as leave quit the road
entirely as to work under ihe old sphed.
ale. We can get rs good wages and
much .shorterg hours working on the
streets or almost anywhere, and besides,
tue man who thinks that our work is
light should try it n day"
The company had three cars running
again yesterday till 9 o'clock, but eyi.
they did not care to risk running
after dark. Four new men have been
from time to time during the
strike, but none OF them has stuck to
The work. One man whose appearance
indicated that he had not been off the
'arm a great while ran as conductor on