Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-06-11
TIE INDUSTRIAL WORLD.
LOCAL AND TELEGRApHIc LABOR NEWS.

a hinderance to the manufacturing
interests of this section during the past
week was the intense heat. At the
rolling mills, glass houses and fur
naces where men are compelled to
work by blazing lehrs and white-hot
metals, the inconvenience and suffering
was very great. Frequently did the
employees have to lay off before the
completion of their turn. A number of
prostrations resulted, and one fatality.
There were also several strikes during
the past seven days, and these neces-
sarily retarded progress and disrupted
the steady tide of inustry at the plants
where they occurred. There was trou-
BILE among the rollers at the La Belle
mill, a strike among the butt-weld boys
at the Riverside tube works, and all the
employees of the Wheeling Corrugating
Company went out on Friday Bar
ring these obstacles, the past week in
the Wheeling district has been one in
every way satisfactory.
There is probably DOT another road in
the country which has been improved
SO much in two years as the Wheeling
and Lake Erie. Under the careful and
judicious management OF the eX-re-
ceivers, Messrs. Blickensderfer and
Herrick, ffty-seyen miles of new sew
enty-pound steel rails have been laid
in the track. Fifty-fve miles of the
road have been reballasted with gravel.
Almost three miles, or $4,000 feet. of
wooden trestle have been taken out
and the space filled with earth. Some
of these filings are the highest in the
State. Forty-seven new steel bridges
have been erected, aggregating over a
mile in length and weighing over s.
100000 pounds; among the most i'm
portant is the 34O-foot interlocking
drawbridge over the Maumee river at
Toledo, the 150-foot deck girder draw
bridge over the Portage river at Oak
Harbor, and the 1S5-foot bridge over
Cross creek, near Mingo Junction.
Over $50 tons of cast iron pipe have
been used in replacing wooden drains
The Dillon tunnel. which was about
$50 feet long through a hill over 100
feet high, was turned into an open
cut. 1t is understood that under the
new organization President Dickens
derfer will continue to make many i'm
provements on the system.
For the past two weeks there has
been some uneasiness upon the part Of
contractors lest the demand of the car
penters for an increase of wages would
retard the progress of work when the
day set for the advance should ar
rive. All possibility of strike now,
however, appears to have been happily
eliminated as the carpenters and con-
tractors, the latter represented by the
officers of the Builders Exchange, had
a conference Friday night and agreed
that no movement of the kind antici-
pated will be made at present. The
builders explained that the time for
asking an increase in behalf OF the
carpenters was not Opportune, as con-
tracts for the season of $50 have al
ready been made upon the basis of eX-
listing wages. The carpenters seemed
to take the same view of the matter and
the representatives of the union agreed
to leave the matter in statu quo. The
demand the carpenters had anticipated
making was an increase of 25 cents
a day and Monday, June 18th was the
date set for the resolution to go into
effect.
On Friday the employees of the
Wheeling corrugating works Nent out
on a strike for the recognition of their
union. The employees have only been
organized about a month since. which
time they have constituted LOCAL No.
~, A. F. of l.. So far as learned the
question of wages does not enter largely
into the present disagreement but
there has been some friction between
the management and employees upon
other points. The employees were led
to think that some of their number
were being sighted by being laid off
from work when it was not necessary
to do so, and interpreted it as being a
movement against their organization
as the leaders were made to suffer most.
When the management was finally
waited upon by a committee and asked
to adjust all grievances through the
arbitration committee Of the Local the
former failed to answer satisfactorily
and the employees went out. The whole
plant employing It's hands has been
thrown idle. but it is thought differ
ences will be compromised and work
resumed at an early date.
On Thursday G. w. Stewart, Jr.,
general manager of the Bellaire
branch of the National Enameling
Company, returned from New York,
where he had been called to confer
with the head men of the combined in
terests. Mr.. Stewart states that the
big addition to the local plant, a de-
tailed account of which having been
given in these columns three weeks
ago, will certainly be made, and that
work will be commenced to clear the
ground MONDAY, June 18th. AS has
been stated, the addition will quad
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