Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-06-22
A RESUMPTION
WHICH DIDN'T RESUME IN EVERY IN
STANCE.
Serious Trouble at Several Large Coal Mines
in the Vicinity Of this City = The Men
Either Shut Out, or Will Not Work.


Columbus did not satisfy either parties
in many OF the instances. Some Of the
miners were not over anxious in
the first place to go TO work
at the conditions OF the new
scale, and some of the operators
are not willing to pay the price. There
are, also, other differences, which
makes the present situation decidedly
serious. Every day the developments
make the situation look bluer to the
miners of many banks. The REGISTER
has given a full statement Of the trouble
at the Etna-Standard mines. The fol-
lowing was learned from visit to other
mines yesterday.
There are at the mines Of the BoggR
Run Mining Company, on South Wheel-
| ing. over one hundred employees wh8n
the mines are on in full. Now not one
of the miners are at work, and there are
no negotiations pending between The
management and the men for the settle
ment. 1t now looks as IL the mines
would be idle for an indefinite period.
The cause is that the management of
the mines does not want to pay the price
agreed upon at Columbus.
Seemingly more serious is the situa-
ton at the Riverside coal works, st the
head of Twenty-sixth street. Trouble
has been brewing at the mine ever
! since the settlement, and yesterday II
eliminated in the management ordering
the miners TO take their tools from the
mine, and to consider themselves dis
charged. The carse assigned by the
operators 3 that they have offered the
men as near the scale as they can. The
employers are willing to pay the men
( for mining SITS for hundred bushels,
which is the new scale, they formerly
having received S1.5O for the same
amount OF coal. BY the new arrange
ment the drivers are entitled 10 get
$3.50 day, the old price when the
strike was begun being S1.17H day,
The management refuses to pay the
drivers the 81. so a day, and these en-
ployes say they will not work for cent
less. There are forty Of the miners,
and as there is no chance offered by
either OF the parties interested, there Is
nothing for the old employees TO do
but to quit work, as they have been
discharged. The employers said yester-
day that it would be the last day the
furnace In the mines would be kept GO
ing for the old employees TO get out their
tools, and they will 60 there this morn
ing and remove them. When the fur
mace is banked there is no chance for
the miners to get their tools by reason
of the foul air which rapidly accumu-
lates I'm the mines. What is to be done
with the mine Is not known, as none OF
the old men will go to work. Some say
the Company will nail up the mouth OF
the mine, and not try TO operate 1t at all,
and Others say that new men Will be
put TO work. The management will not
say what IL intends TO do. III new en-
Moves are put TO work there is sure 10
be trouble, as the employees have waited
for their Jobs now for the last three
months, and many of them are in need.
One OF the old employees was talked to
last night by one OF tue REGISTER
reporters, and he admitted that he was
in a needy condition. He said he had
been practically out Of work for the
last year, and that he had family to
keep. He said he might find work in
some of the Ohio mines, but he could
not get away. He has been waiting for
his old employment, and has accumula-
| ted debts, and II he should try TO leave
the city mis- creditors would nab him.
Then he had not cent OF money to
take his moving a square. He said that
this was Just the situation with the
majority OF the miners at the works.
The Riverside mines are very important
TO the industry of Wheeling, as their
product supplies coal for the River
side iron works, the largest plant OF
the city.
Then a condition OF affairs little less
grave exists at the Glendale coal works,
down the river. These mines supply a
large railroad custom. and several OF
the smaller plants Of the city. The
trouble there is that the operators do
not want TO recognize any union among
the employees. The firm will not hire
any one who is allied with union, or
who will not say he will have
no allegiance with them after he
enters the employ OF the company.
There are usually employed at the works
about sixty miners, and only ten of
the old employees are now at work, they
having gained IL by saying they will
not have connections with any OF the
fifty of the old employees idle, because
of their allegiance TO the union, and
they say they will not go to work under
the conditions OF the company. The
management has already gotten a
number Of foreigners to work in
the mines, and the feeling
among the Old employed toward the new
ones is naturally bitter. What the out
come at the mine will be is question.
Some of the idle miners of the South
Side went 10 the works yesterday, and
they reported that forty Of the new for
eipn labor was at work in the mines.
Before they knew of the situation they
applied to the employers for work, and
they said they would employ them II
they would renounce their allegiance 10
the locals. This they would not do.
The Wheeling creek coal mines are
still idle. Many of the American miners
would 60 to work, out they are intini-
dated by the foreigners, who are large
! lY in the majority, and who are strong
" against going to work at the new
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