Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-04-29
CARPENTERS SUSPEND MAY ]
/. THROUGHOUT WHEELING DISTRICT
No Settlement
Reached Thursday

Carpenters Will suspend work NJ
May list. No settlement was eff
fected at the meeting of the Car
penters Scale committee, and the.
scale committee of the Allied
Building Trades, held at the office
of the Allied Building Trades,
Thursday evening. This report
will be made to the Carpenters at
a mass meeting of all Carpenters
Of the valley to be held at the AS
sembly hall, Friday evening. The
\ situation is not so serious as ap-
pears upon the surface, as minor
concessions made by both parties,
will it is predicted, bring about a
settlement in aweek or ten days.
~ May 1st and the Carpenters scale
expires. ~
Afer many conferences the scale
committee Of the District Council Of
Carpenters can only report progress in
their dealings with the scale commit
tee of the Allied Building Trades. The
condition of affairs is somewhat COM
plicated for several reasons. The in
side or mill men, have presented a
scale earring with it an increase of
wages from As cents an hour to 48
cents, which was rejected by the AL
lied Building trades employers, asking
in return that the mill men accept
the old rate paid in 1914; this was re-
jected by the mill men at a meeting
held Monday night. Tuesday the com
mittee reported the result of this
meeting to the Allied Building
Trades, and they in conference ar
rived at point where middle ground
was acceptable to both, and will pres
emit this proposition to the mill men
at meeting to be held Friday night.
While not in position to state posi-
lively what the counter proposition is,
and from the fact that middle ground
was arrived at we would be safe in
saying it is an even break on the
original increase demanded.
Whether the mill men will accept
it is a question to be decided at their
meeting Friday night.
The Outside Men.
With the outside carpenters, things
are in more uncertain condition, due
to the fact that as yet they have been
unable to arrive at any conclusions
with the Allied Building Trades. One
thing stands out very prominently,
and that is their determination to Sc
cure the increase even to the extent
of a suspension of work May LIST.
This condition of affairs would not
be Of such far reaching injury to
them as an organization as is general
ly believed 1t is a peculiar condition
Of affairs; Moundsville, for instance,
comes forward with the report that
most of the contractors are signed
for 1915, the larger ones are not in
tending to suspend operations. Mar
tins Ferry comes forward with SINH
LAIR report, Bellaire has contractors
who have signed and others who have
pledged themselves to sign for the
coming year at the new rate. In
Wheeling the larger contractors, iwth
many of the smaller ones, are already
signed, particularly is this true Of the
contractors having the larger jobs,
they having assured the represent
atives Of the Carpenters organization
that they under no circumstances
win consider suspension of work.
The outside men are asking an in
crease from 45 cents to so cents an
hour, 8 hours to constitute day, and
half holiday on Saturday, A hours a
week. paid only for hours worked.
They mean to stand for the scale just
as it reads. The scale committee on
the outside scale. meet Thursday night