Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-04-23
FIELDS OF LABOR
GATHERED FROM TEE MILLS AND
MARTS OF TRADE
, from Homo and Our Near Neighbors-
What the Workmsn are DliSg-Gan-
eral Nil News.


lt has been for the past eight or nine
years. The improvement In the sltua-
ton Is entirely due 20 better under
standing among the American manuiac-
turers, and 20 the fact that the Import
ers have iced to no longer disagree.
Perhaps - improvement In market
values would not have come so soon,
had not the American manufacturers
taken the initiative in the struggle TO
get back q dollar for a dollar. Al least
that Is what those who are posted, ana
who have watched recent developments
closely, y.-GlGSSlCOrker
Henry Floresheim, the coal dealer, OF
FinleyviIl6, Pa, was In the city last
week on business. 10 is known there Is
some dissatisfaction ia the Flnleyville
region among the miners regarding
wages. 10 is feared there will be
strike there, and II there Is wheeling
will be very much effected. The effect
IN the Hempfeld coal yards and
some South Side coal yards will be
most noticeable in case of a strike. For
two davs last week the Hempfeid yards
were without coal. Mr.. Floersheim was
seen and asked regarding the difficulty,
bat he refused 60 say much about 1t.
The miners are demanding higher
wages.
The weu-known mill men are i'm
proving from recent injuries received
Henry Granmor, Of Beltz & Fading,
ankle sprhined; Edward Snider, Wheel
ing Steel Works, hit by shlfter; John
Magnus. Steel Works, splinter OF iron
. hitting hun 90 the eye; Jake Sauers,
\ over III nwood MILL hand caught In
Asars: Games Hicks, -Etna. thumb
Aed:N Fritz Kaufensteiu, Lower
~ mill. hand injured, and Harry
Wheeling Steel Works, fingers
flowing are some OF the city'S
n concerns running at their
aDacity: Cox IL Co., Reman q
sons Wheeling Wire Works,
30 Va. Tobacco Co., Baltz x
Wheeling Hinge Co, Rey-
Brewery, the North Wheeling
Works. the Ohio Valley China
Yerside mill, Lower BenwOod
ID lEtna aud Standard mills,
Johnson's Sons, and the Wheel
agating Co.
sevekl manufacturers OF the city,
kere haard 20 speak OF the great dill
peulty bow in securing good boys Tor
their work. 10 was stated, that boys
would secure employment stay probably
q week and leave. one manufactures
WAS so disguised that he said he be-
Heved, "it was past the time for reliable
bovs" BOYS with a sticking quality,
ami honest can very easily secure en-
ploymeut IN many OF the city factories.
There was a great meeting at Column
bps. o.. last week, OF the National Coal
Miners Convention. The delegates
from the Wheeling union brought a
proposition up in the course OF the
meeting for the convention % confirm
the boycott on the Monongal Ceal Com
Tpanv, Of this city. The convention
would not entertain the motion. There
is no apparent change in the boycott
here.
The BOYS In the B. s, o. yards are
looking for big changes there the trst
OF next month, In the event OF moving
the shops TO BenwOOd Junction. This
will change matters considerably in the
wards, and several crews will have their
headquarters changed 70 the Junction.
Several engines shifting ia the yard at
present, will be taken 90 the new head
quarters Some repairing Is already
being done at the Junction.
In Wellsburg, w. Va, the Brooke
Glass Company IS running six shops al
most exclusively on bottles. AT the
Riverside. from present indications,
business is brisk and orders numerous.
The oSher plant in operation IS the
STANDARD lnOn-union), recently started
no. and turning out Mason jars almost
exclusively.
There is q threatened strike, on May
first, among the employees In both the
Connelsville and Ohio coke regions. II
this strike is begun, every mill using
coke i'm the city will be effected. The
men are. wanting increased wages and,
as the coke trade az present is dull, the
employers claim they cannot afford It,
The Jos. Bell Stove Company is ship
ping its machinery steadily 20 Muncie,
Ind. Four carloads were shipped last
week. Among these cargoeS was tho
large boiler Stoves will 0e sold just
the same as ever from the present loca-
tlon, and business in that line will be
carried on as brisklY as before.
The Crystal Glass Company and the
BrtageDort Glass Company, of Bridge
port. o., can be counted on as the most
reliable In that section. AT Bellaire,
the once famed city for its numerous
glass plants, only two are In operation,
viz. Rodefer Bros and the Bellaire
Bottle Works.
Mil No. . at the Whitaker iron
works Is not running. This Is caused
by the putting In OF new foundation
for the roll train aud a new fly wheel.
II will be some time yet before the de-
partment will resume. All the remain
der of the mill is on full turn.
The large new wash house at Rey-
lmann'S brewery is completed They
are brewing there night and day, and
|puttlng new men 90 work quite fire.
ouently. 10 is said they will make con-
siderable more Improvements az the
4 plant in the near future.
at the factory Of the Wheeling Hinge
Company all departments We're found
going full blsst AID the greatest kind
OF industry prevailing. They are near
ly constantly making progress there by
increasing their plant or putting on
new wOrkmen.
The Panhandle freight crews in the
yard in this city have been considerably
changed Of late. Freight traffic there
has not been very brisk, and several old
employees have been compelled TO dis
continue work for the present.
The Nail City Stamping Company Is