Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-07-09
THE INDUSTRIAL WORLD.
LOCAL AND TELEGRApnIc LABOR NEWS

mould shops are behind with their
work, and will be kept in steady oper-
alton.
While the advance in the price of
building materials has caused many
persons who contemplated building to
change their minds, there are never
theless as many suburban residences
in course of construction as during any
recent year. Next season is expected
to be very busy one, as many per-
sons who have purchased lots this
year, as well as other property owners
along the National road, will erect
country houses.
The steel plant at Bellaire after a
weeks idleness will resume Monday.
! During the week considerable repair
ing has been done to machinery, and
the soaking pits have been refined. The
vacation has been greatly appreciated
by the employees.
The Novelty enamelng works at
Bellaire resume tomorrow, after a
weeks vacation. Work is being rush
ed on the addition to the plant, as bet
ter facilities are demanded by the in
creasing trade of the company.
A matter which has created no little
talk in labor circles is the request from
the Executive Board of the Ohio Val
ley Trades & Labor Assembly for the
resignation of Secretary T. V. Sails
bury. The cause for this action of the
Board is an alleged Indifference upon
the part of Mr.. Salisbury during the
street car strike, or rather a failure to
cooperate as actively or earnestly as
the members of the assembly thought
he should. The Secretary's course, it
appears, during the trouble, was con-
sentative and his advice upon some
occasions was not always acceptable to
the labor leaders. Mr. Salisbury has
refused to resign unless his case is
given full and fair investigation, and
in such event he has expressed desire
to have T. l.. Lewis, the we'll known
Belmont county labor leader, to defend
him. Without discussing the merits
of the claims against Mr.. Salisbury, it
may be stated that he has for years
been prominent in labor circles on
either side of the river, and his host of
friends in labor organizations in this
vicinity trust and believe he will be
able to clear himself of any action
which will reflect seriously upon him
as an advocate of the rights of labor
or his uprightness as man.
The strike among the cigar makers
at the Seamon factory at Moundsville
was yet unsettled at the close of the
week.
Mr. Seamon had agreed to grant the
Pittsburg Union rate, which is 50, on
both Kentucky and seed stogies. This
is not as much as is paid in Wheeling,
but the league agreed to the PROPOSE
ton. The other differences existing
were not satisfactory, however. AT
the factory Mr.. Seamop has about AGO.
600 stogies on hand. He requested the
League to give him permission to U.S.
the Union label on these, as they were
made by the men who are now in the
Moundsville Union. The official board
gave him his answer to the request yes
terday, they refusing to grant it. '4pls
throws the matter back to the original
way again, and the men are not work
ing.
A court decision which has decided
bearing upon an important Wheeling
industry was that given by Judge Colt
at Boston on Thursday. Heretofore,
manufacturers of cheap and inferior
stogies in other cities have taken adj
vantage of the enviable reputation
made by the Wheeling stogie by adj
vertising their goods and selling them
as Wheeling stogies. Judge Colts de-
c:~.on will stop this practice, and as the
people want the Wheeling stogie, it
will naturally create added custom for
goods made in this city.
The suit against the Boston man was
entered by four Wheeling manufactur-
ers, Hugo L. Loos. Marsh & Son, MUM