The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-04-14
AN UNUSUAL VARIETY
Or Interests looked after by the
Trades Assembly Yesterday.
STRIKES INQUlREDlNTO
Aud DoycOtts Levied or Refused as
the Committees Report 1sccom.
mcnacd - Tho Main Street
Bridge aud the New Jail.

At tho regular meeting OF tho Ohio
Valley Trades md Labor Assembly yes.
terday afternoon, President Wood pre-.
sided and Secretary Salisbury was at his
desk. Every chair in tho room was &C.
cupied, aud some Of the spectators were
compelled to stand. The Grst matter
considered was tho statement OF the
Builders Exchange concerning the
building trades strike. The Assembly
by an unanimous vote declared the Ex.
changes statement to DO in the main
untrue, aud misleading wherein It is
true.
The strike Of the miners ut Van Eos
sens mines was again reported to the
Assemblys and ut the request OF the
Miners Union, tho p%roprletors OF the
mines were placed under boycott, and q
number Of men who are ut work were
placed on the blacklist.
The special committee appointed To
look after all. matters wherein the Gro.
ccrs' Protective. Association and the As.
sembly arc jointly interested, reported
that all differences between the two
bodies concerning the agreement where.
by the grocers arc not TO soil the pro.
ducts Of certain firms, aud the people in
the Assembly arc not to patronize rro.
GERS who DO not operate In accordance
with the rules OF the Protective Associa.
ton, have been settled aud tho agree.
ment has been signed. The action ofthe
committee was approved. ig
The Arbitration Committee reported
that 1t Ind investigated the strike OF the
blown tumbler snloo,hers at the Central
Glass Works, and recommended adverse
action on the proposition Of the strikers
to place the contractor and those work.
ing for him on the btack list. The com.
mittec found by investigation that MIR.
Martin, the contractor under the Central
Company, would by granting the de.
mands Of the strikers lose, without con,
eidering wages, IS cents a day. ~,
The Arbitration Committee also re.
ported having investigated the trouble
between the Joseph Bell Stove Com.
pany and the Stove Filters Union,
They reported that the employers state
that they did not discharge any Of the
men because they arc members OF thu
union, aud they arc ready to take them
back as soon as statements made in &
card printed in the REGISTER some time
since, which statements the employers
say are untrue, are retracted. This the
stoYe Company vii! not, however, allow
to apply to one man, who, they say, was
discharged because he was incompetent
The members Of the union say they viii
not retract the statements referred d, 10,
the reason that they are true, and fur,
ther that the man discharged for alleged
incompetence worked for the COMPANY
for years without his Incompetence be-
Ing discovered.
The strike was endorsed by the AS.
sembly, and the product OF the stove
works declared unfair"
4 communication was presented by
the Building Trades Council, asking the
Assembly 10 request the Board Of Coun.
ty Commissioners to accept the plans Of
Architect Franzheim for the new iail.
The reason assigned for this action is.
that the Council is informed that il any
other set Of plans is adopted, non.union
labor will be employed. The Assembly
seemed to understand the explanation
and appointed n committee to formulate
a prayer to the Commissioners with
the desired end in view.
The question Of the %adyisability of
building a stone bridge, over the creek at
Main direct was brought up, and dis.
cussed a full hour, adjournment being
postponed from 5 o'clock till 6 to accom-.
modate it. After much talk, which do.
yeloped the fact that all hands concede
that a steel bridge would be much
cheaper and better than a stone bridge,
it was DECIDED 10 recommend a stoue
bridge, because it can be built by home
iabor-if the contractor sees fit 10 use
Wheeling stone and employ Wheeling
men. Several speakers advanced the
idea that Wheeling men and Wheel.
ing materials might not receive any
more consideration when a bridge is
built over Wheeling creek, than they
have received in the building OF the
Union bridge and the leaky reservoir.