Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-06-03
AMONG THR Mills.
AEPORTS FROM ALL TIE LABOR CENTRES OF
WHEELING.
tate Of Trade and Progress Of Indusry-Businsss
Better at Sons Of the Plants-PrsOnals
About Mil Men.


pig and SO for steel billets. with the
ruling price of $3.50 aud SO for steel
billets for future delivery. The strikes
still restrict the market AS yet no
official announcement has been made
by the Amalgamated Association Of Iron
and Steel Workers OF their wages scale
for the coming year. They only infor-
m alton from trustworthy sources is TO
I he effect that the scale OF the past year
as IL now stands has been practically
agreed upon by the workers. The only
figures that have been given out are
those OF the puddlerS' scale, and they
are only repetition OF those 10 last
years agreement The only change
not ed 10 this departmeutisa concession,
as the rule prohibiting the working Of
pudding furnaces three turns in twenty
four hours has been abolished. This is
q point the manufacturers have long
de manded. There is 10 great appre-
he nsiOn OF trouble over the wage Ques-
Ito this year, unless il nay be In the
she e. mills. Quite q number of the
ma nufacturers favor a further reduc-
ito OF rates among high-priced men.
Tn latter DO not hesitate to say that
IL any attempt is made In that direction
ID ey will tight TO the last. Those who
understand the situation appear TO
= hink that this is the only quarter from
which trouble is at all likely 10 come.
-BTGdstreCtS.
Arrangements are being made so that
all tho employees OF the TiltOnyi.le pot
terry get their wages. When the works
were started last March the employees
y-ere paid only in part each week until
the trade would be established again.
When Ii was necessary for the hrm TO
make the assignment, all the employees
were not paid, and now they are 20 get
every cent which Is coming TO them. II
is now thought that the plant will not
have 10 DO sold but that things will be
gotten 10 such shape soon so that the
pottery eau DO put In operation again.
The new X. OF L. organization OF the
Riverside iron works is growing very
rapidly. 10 is the intention Of the
founders to get as many OF the work
men in as possible. All the boys Of the
works over sixteen are eligible TO mem
bership, and macy OF them are Joining.
When the organization IS completed the
wOrkmen have a surprise 70 spring on
the people.
One Of the largest DOtteries Of New
Cumberland, West Virginia, will re-
sumo 10 the morning az the Old list
The mill has been idle since the strike
began on the 22d., Of last January, will
be started on double turn, and will give
work TO about 400 men Wheeling
striking pOtters derived much encOura-
cement, and hope from this news
Repairing is being done at the River
side steel works. The management has
taken the opportunity during the stop
to get the works in good shape. Even
n they were ready 70 start under the
conditions of the strike, they could not
for a week at least, by reason Of the re-
pairing being done.
Good progress is being made building
the new glass house CT Shadyside, south
of BeIlaire. The new works will be
completed so thar they can be put IN
operation by the latter part Of this sum.
mer. The works are owned by num-
Der Of experienced glass house men and
will be run on the cooperative plan.
There is little change In the pottery
situation in the city. The Advisory
Board Of the strikers had nothing TO
report and the proprietors OF the plants
are not inclined TO talk much. Even If
the strike were settled, neither Of the
p0tteries OF the city would be started
before the July stock taking.
One OF the butt-weld furnaces at the
tube works is of They had a bad time
with breaks there last week, and the
men were laid of az three different
times bv reason of this About 30 men
have been idle but they will 60 TO work
IN the morning, the last break having
been repaired.
Business at the LaBelle mill was not
40 good last week. The employees OF the
forge department and the large nail
mill made but two days. The tack
factory ran every day, however, ana it
was necessary 20 keep thiS department
IN operation at nights, part Of the time.
Last Monday some of the miners in
the employ OF the BeIlaire nail mill
works resumed. The men did not 90 20
mining coal, but % driving a new
entry. They think that by the COndi-
tions Of the strike this is allowable.
None Of the men are at work now.
Last week was an unucky one for
break downs 10 the bel. weld depart
uent al the tube works. One day one
OF the shaftings broke, and the men
were laid OF for q day. and VIXEN they
went 10 work cog was broken aud
they were laid of again.
In the recent Amalgamated AssOcia-
tion convention at Cleveland, D., e. b.
kaufman was elected one Of the truS-
tees, and Harry Hooking was chosen
one OF the vice presidents. David
Llewelyn was chosen as one Of the
members Of the finishing mill commit
tee.
The East Wheeling firm OF William
M. COen and company report that trade
is briSker with them ,han 10 has been
for some time. Work is being done Oh
some very large tanks for the Belmont
brewery in Martins Ferry.
Some Of the miners Of the Bellaire
nail works went 20 work driving en-
tries last week. No coal was mined,
but the strikers did not like the miners
70 90 20 work az all There was con-
siderable dissatisfaction by reason OF
/this.
About fifty car loads OF coal was
received from the FairmOnt region at
the Riverside iron works last week.
The fuel is being stored away 50 that in
case the miners OF that region are for
ced to quit, the Riverside will not be
left.
Laughlin & Co., OF Pittsburg, have a
force Of brickIayers at work at the Riv-
srside iron works. The men are en-
gagged In building the new scales.
Casfs vary vvaak NJ the Wheeling