Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-05-07
THE LABOR fOB
WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE CITY
CINITY. 4
All Industrial Plants Working as hal
Ohio M~insrs-Gsnsral lndg
trial News

The mill at Cambridge, q is to
have a galvanizing Department.
It is said there will be no DEDUCTION
IN the Office force OF the Htna- standard
Company because Of the comoi1ei
The fact that little or no n9w street
having will done this year nithis city
will knock some men out OF their usual
summer job.
The Pomeroy. o., mill on April 2s
turned out 912 bundles OF eoqton ties
on an S-inch train and n thlres-door
coal furnace.
The work Of rebuilding the Back"
river bridge OF the Belmont bridge
Companv will give employment TO quite
q large force.
The Fisher Foundry and Machknt Co.,
Pittsburg, has been awarded tbs CON
tract 10 furnish the entire machipety to
he nsed in r~emodeliDg the plant % the
wheeling Steel and Iron Co.
The work OF putting in the So-Inch
main for the new water works pumping
station will give employment 70 a big
force of men during most of the sum
mer. Work will commence to-m0rrpw.
The National Convention Of the AUial-
qamated Association will be held at
Pittsburg in June, and already many Of
the local lodges are choosing delegates.
last week Willis Watts was elected TO
represent Virginia Lodge No. 4, with
Mike Grogan as alternate. A great
many important matters will cone up
before the body.
MYERS and Sweeney, ~patentees Of a
pew automatic strainer for preventing
mud and other foreign matter from en-
tsring furnaces, have placed one of
their appliances at the LaBelle mill,
where il has given general satisfaction.
Mr.. Myers will leave this week Tor Chi
cago for the purpose Of introducing the
device, and organizing a company for
its manufacture.
The coal miners at Columbus yester-
daV did not declare the strike on but
called a conference with the operators
next Tuesday. In the meantime many
of the miners are going TO work.
Heatherington's upper mine has been
added TO the list in this city and 1t is
understood that other mines will be or
Grated Monday. The GAINESVILLE Soy
SAYS: ''The situation In the coal reSl
around here because Of the strikeo OF
miners remains unchanged. The mi
f. out the B., u. & G. are still running
the miners refuse to join the strike
A writer from Martins Ferry to
Labor Tribune, says:
~'Ifthings keep booming here as ii
have been, Martins Ferry will be Q
OF the best places in Ohio for q VOL
fpgman to get work. There is ple5
of laboring to be got here now, and
guess a few good sheet mill men mif
yet a lob here, such as sheet rollers. y
see they are changing that class OF men
quite often"
The local industries have been work
ing about a. usual during the past week.
The building trades have been some
what bothered by the continued vet
weather, but still fair progress has been
made.
In concluding an article on the stu
lion az the Homestead works, the
Labor Tribune says: From all accounts
20 hand il wnuld seem that the troubles
at Homestead are not over. The pity
IA the contest Of last year, which had
so nearly resolved in favor Of the WORK
men. was so badly interrupted, with
success was In sight, by the strategy lf
the company in working up before the
public a fnisher's split-of from the a.
A. But for this, needed aid would hare
poured into the treasury OF the locked
out Homestead men in greater abDq1-
ance than at any time before, and furiis
sufi Client 10 last until victory would
have been secured"
In reply to a letter from a lodge Ct
workingmen asking for 3 suggestion CT
resolution 10 be offered at the ap-
preaching annual convention OF the or
ga~nization. Edward Bellamy, author Of
Hooking Backward" and editor Of the
Nelp Nation, says, in view Of the recent
series Of judicial decisions anent strikes
and boycots, that he proposed the fol-
lowing:
ResOlUed, That the strike and boycott
have in the past been the chief defen-
sive weapons Of organized labor in its
struggle with organized capital, and
IL the courts prohibit their use the only
hope OF labor lies in the public opera
tion OF businesses by governmental
agencies which the workers can control
through the ballot and public opinion.