Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-06-26
LOCAL INDUSTRIAL NOTES,
Points Picked Up about the City Last
EpeuiRS

EReulnS.
The lower Benwood mill started to make
twenty-five inch skelp yesterday morning
Rolls are being changed in G plate mill OF
the Riverside iron works, but no orders
have yet been given for the resumption.
Two more of the boiling furnaces at the
LaBeue mill went on yesterday morning
There is now more Of the plant on than Tor
q long time. The prospects are sad 10 Dc
Frightening each day.
All the puddlers of the lower Benwood
puddling mill are now At work. Inc neat
ers of the mill are also at work Ihese
are the only departments OF the mill now
on. The heat was very hard for the work
men TO stand yesterday.
All of the Riverside iron works now in
operatiOn is one each of the oell-Weld ana
the butt-weld furnaces. No orders are
&C., IN, s-~~v more of the plant TO
turn. All that is lacking now to keep the
entire mill from being on is the continuing
Scarcity of coke,
All was in readiness for the guide mill
Of the Riverside bar mill, at the head of
Twenty-siXth street, TO so on yesterday
morning. Just as the mill was 10 start the
cylinder head gave out, and resumption
was rendered impossible WOrkmen were
at once put 10 work to make repairs and
the mill will go on this morning.
Yesterday one OF the most prominent of
the South Side potters received an official
letter from England stating what the stu
alton is there among the plants. The letter
also contained some news which will inter
est all the striking potters Of Wheeling
and roundabout. The county Of Stafford
shire is the great center of the pottery in
dustry. This county alone has $50 pot
teries, and the employees of these plants
number 30, 600 wOrkmen, A trades union
or assembly governs these plants and
their workmen, and recently this body
passed decree that each OF the journey
men wOrhmen should be taxed twenty
four cents a week, and all the apprentices
and women to be taxed twelve cents each,
for the purpose of sending all this money
to the striking potJers of the United States
AT first thought thisSwould seem chart
table act on the part of the English work
men, but il was not intended in that way.
The object, on the other hand, is TO give
the strikers OF iris country power to hold
out in the great strike, so that the English
pOtterieS will gain the trade from this
country, which they are very RAPIDLY do
ing Every month the Strike in this coun-
try is continued, that much more work
which the American potterymen should
rightly nave goes to the wOrkmen
Of England The money from the English
will be collected each week, and will be
sent to committees arranged for the pur-
pose TO the great centers of East Liverpool
and Trenton. II is thought some
of the money will come to Wheeling.
Ii isEestimated that there will be
on an average s. a week coming to each
potter in East Liverpool and Trenton from
the fund Of the English workmen. The
author of the latter states that the English
are making desperate attempts TO gain con-
troll of the trade in this country, and they
think now, at the time of the great strike,
is the chance for them to make their final
stand. At one time, England, and it was
Lot so long ago, controlled the pottery in
dustry of the world In full Then the pot
ters of the United States began to spring
up, until now there are over one hundred
of them, nearly all being now idle. All the
Dotteries OF Staffordshire are now al work,
the continental trade among them is
good, and the trade from America is in
creasing every day. BY reason OF the re-
cent stand of the EuEhshmen, a new and
more grave question faces both employer
aud employees Of the plants of this country.
Wheeling, alone, now mas six hundred idle
pOtterS.