Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-05-06
ACTIONS OF LABOR.
INTELLIGENCE FROM TH3 MILLS AND FAC
TORIES OF WHEELINGr
Word From Foreign Fislds-Ths Efsc! Of the
Great Strike on ths Mills-Psrsonals-
Noes aad News From Among
the Mills.


at Fairmont, and il has about run out.
The steel works and plate mill are on
yet. The plate mill at the lower Ben
wood pudding mill is of. The Wheel
ing steel works cannot be run long with
out new supply of coke. None has
been received since the strike began.
The Riverside furnace is OF; the steel
works are on but cannOtrun many days.
The plate mill is in operation, but
the prospects OF going long are
gloomy. IL is reported that the
tube works will have to so on single
turn by reason OF the scarcity OF coal.
The Belmont mill is idle Oy reason OF
the strike. The La Belle has not felt
\ the coal strike much yet. About one
Nhalf of the .Etna-Standard is on with
bought coal. Gas is being put I'M
der most of the furnaces. The Top
mill sheet department is Oh. No coal.
At the .Etna. Standard: The ware
shed al the pudding mill is having big
improvents made. The miners have re-
moved their tools from the mines, and
they have organized local OF the
United Mine Workers OF America.
About sixty miners belong 10 Il. The
bar mill, the breakdown and the guide
mills are off by reason Of no coal.
Rapid progress is being MADE at the
new tin plate plant, aud 10 will be In
operation By the first OF next month.
Nine OF the sheet mills are in operation,
aud the management will start more Of
them as soon as gas can be put in.
These mills are T. Is, IA and Is, OF the
a.. ID p Of % tn
and : and Of the old Standard. In
the entire plant there are now about
1000 men at work.
Wood Bros, the planning mill firm, is
having one OF the best OF runs. The
outlook for steady work is very prom
ising. The biz building at Mozart Park
is being rooted aud the floors are being
put in the structure. Thirty men are
az work on the immense new casino at
Wheeling Park. Some idea Of the per-
manent conditions Of this building can
now be seen. The stage is placed and
the gallery is now beginning TO make a
nice appearance. Some delay has been
caused by the iron work not arriving.
The improvements at the residence o.
Z. A. Hudreth, on Chapins street,
were COupl6le4 oStcAuo > AAo IL ~
is figuring on some good contracts.
The North Wheeling bottle works
has made moldS which make the fam
Gus bottle which cannot DO rehlied
again, better than ever. The inventor,
William Hays, of Boston, who Is TO get
S., 900 for the great work, is now at his
home. and will az once Introduce his
bottle. That the bottle can be used but
once will give 10 great demand, 1t Is
said, aud a boom in the North Wheel
ing works is confidently assured. II
took Mr.. Hays four years 10 get his in
yention perfected, and be came TO this
city 10 have the bottle made, and the
trial was very successful.
Secretary Treasurer Patrick Nc
Bryde, OF the United Nine Workers OF
, America, makes the following state
ment this week in regard 70 the situa-
tiop i'm the big strike: I'm this country
there are $4,000 coal miners, and one
half of them, or 100, 900, have quit work.
But there are 10000 anthracite miners
i'm the United States, and they do not
compete with US These have not gone
out and we do not expect them 10. This
only leaves 10000 miners who are not
out, aud they are scattered all over the
country"
Holiday & Son, from their South
Side planning mills, report trade much
more encouraging. The firm is fur
nishinz the lumber for large new barn
near Elm Grove for Mrs. Minnie kla-
gus. L. j. Robinson, the contractor,
Is furnishing tho lumber for a residence
out the Bethany pike for William For
dyce. and the firm is getting out the
lumber. Material Tor the residence in
Fulton OF George ZOeckler is being fur
nIsned, and Edward Hamm is the con-
tractor.
The plant OF the Ohio Valley China
Company, in North Wheeling, is not 70
be closed down as ordered by the man
a-ement The workmes agreed with
tho stockholders and the board Of di-
rectors of the company that they would
nut q par5 Of their earnings each week
into stock al the works. The manage
rlent agreed 10 this, and the pottery
will run on as before the trouble. The
plant will employ about 100 men.
The big planning mill OF Wilson &
Chapman is going in its usual steady
manner. The firm reports the contract
for furnishing with lumber the new
building iu Martins Ferry Of Spence,
Bags Il Co.; improvements at the
busch hotel about completed; the work
on the improvements az the saloon and
residence OF Michael Mauer, on Market
street, completed, and the contract for
store front for a. A. Scramm.
The stonemasons' strike in this city,
which lasted FOR one month exactly, has
been settled. The maSonS struck
against the reduction OF from 40 TO so
cents an hour. Each side made cOnceS-
Sious, and the masOns are al work sgain
for So cents an hour, IL being ;he com
promise price. About 500 men were af-
fected by the strike. Work on the i'm
provemeDts u the city will now be rap
Idly progressed.
This State now has 800 striking coal
miners, where one week ago il had but
1900; Pennsylvania now has so, 900, and
one week ago 10 had $4,000; Ohio now
has % 600, when one week ago il had
q. 600. Some OF the other States have
the following number of miners out:
Kentucky and Tennessee 5000 aud
Illinois 40, 900.
It was intended 10 bank the Bellaire
furnace last Wednesday, but this has
not been done yet. The reason il was
not banked was that a consignment Of
coke arrived unexpectedly. Ii is only
8 matter Of time, il the strike continues,
until the furnace is banked. II employs
about zoo men.
The mill men in North Wheeling are
a e.H ~ er1D