Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-07-16


among local manufacturers which have
been at standstill for the past two
weeks owing to a failure upon the part
of the conference committees at Chica-
go. to reach Sc ttlement. On Thurs
day, however, the committees came to
an agreement and the suspense which
has been felt in local industrial circles
has been happily relieved. Another
meeting of the past week which has
been closely watched is the annual con-
venaion of the Flint Glass Workers in
session at Muncie, Ind. The delegates
have been wrestling with some OF the
difficult problems which are of annual
recurrence in their conventions, but
the wage committee will not be ready
to meet the manufacturers for some
days yet The annual convention of
the National Brotherhood of Operative
Potters at Trenton, N j., has also been
an event of the past seven days which
has attracted much attention among
those allied with this branch of manu-
facture in Wheeling and throughout
the Ohio Valley. On Wednesday the
proposed new schedule was announced
to be in readiness and the committee
dtno whose hansd it was delivered was
given discretionary power when 1t
goes into conference with the manu-
facturers. The other event of the week
which claimed paramount attention
here was the passing of the Riverside
iron works, blast furnace, rolling mills
and pipe works, into the hands OF the
National Tube Company This change
affects more capital and labor here
than any deal that has been consum-
mated since the organization of the
American Tin Plate Company, and its
the Wheeling district.
The settlement of the tin plate scale
at Chicago on Thursday will enable
$500 employees in the Wheeling district
to resume their duties tomorrow
morning. Those who do not stop to
calculate do not appreciate the full sig
nificance of the settlement upon Wheel
ing industries. If the tin plate mills
had been closed down for few more
weeks, it would have necessitated the
suspension of the dipping departments
throwing idle thousand or more ad-
ditional employees, and in turn the
coopers who are engaged in making
boxes for the product would have been
idle The tin business with its depend
emit industries has gotten to be such an
important factor in this section that its
collapse would mean idlenesS and de-
privation to thousands. According to
the terms of the schedule the wage in
crease of those employees identified with
the Amalgamation receive a straight
advance of Is per cent. The increase
takes effect July 1st. The wage list as
adopted is to be the minimum scale for
the year ending June 80, 1900. The
scale as adopted is based on S4.25 as
the selling price of a one hundred
pound box of coke tin plate. On each
cent increase in the price per box, two
per cent advance on the scale as adopt
ed will be paid, while for each ten cents
decrease deduction of two per cent.
will be made.
The Laughlin tin plant will resume
iif full tomorrow and hardly had the
news been received from Chicago until
the order was passed around to en-
ployes and those in charge were set to
work to get the furnaces and mills in
readiness
All that portion of the Aetna-Stand-
ard plant which has been idle for the
past two weeks will be set in motion
tomorrow, except the tin mills in the
new Standard part and possibly job
bling mill No. 1. The starting of these
will be delayed until the oath to per-
NIT repairs now under Roadway TO be
completed.
All the tin mills at the La Belle plant
will resume tomorrow, the 18th, and
the four tin mills at the Whitaker go
On at the same time, and With this ad-
dition to the activity there the concern
will be in full operation.
.. On last Tuesday the Top mill blast
furnace of the Wheeling Steel and Iron
Company began to chill and despite the
utmost efforts of the management the
condition Of the metal at the base OF
the cupolaI was continued in bad way,
threatening great loss in damage, time
and product to the company. Nick
Reister, of the Belmont furnace has
been engaged all week in an effort to
right matters and all the science and
devices known to the business were
brought into requisition in an effort to
remedy the condition. Additional
tweers were inserted above the usual
point of delivering the blast for the
purpose of fusing the upper stratum of
the mass and it is yet hoped the rem
edy may be effective. If the furnace
should chill irrevocably, it would en-
tail a loss anywhere from fifty to sew
enty-five thousand dollars upon the
company in repairs and loss of pro-
duct. Yesterday President C. R. Hub
bard stated that the company has been
more hopeful during the past twenty
four hours and that there is reason to
believe the furnace will be set right
now within few days. Two casts
were made in manner yesterday and
the outlook is better than at any time
since the difficulty arose. N. Refs
ter, ST., of the Belmont furnace,
and Frank Crockard, Of the River
side, have given their attention dur
ing the week to setting the furnace
right and this expert knowledge has
proven Invaluable to the company in
bringing about the present hopeful con-
dition.
Among the leaders prominent in
Wheeling labor circles who were hon
pred by the National Potters conven-
tion in session at Trenton the past