Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-04-21
LEAGUED LABOR.
The Tremendous Struggle Which is
Rapidly Approaching.
Meeting ofthe Knights ofLabr-Synopsis Of
the Resolutions Adopted The Ohio
Miners Convention Ordered
for the 30th-New Off,
GERS Elected.
CONDITION OF AFFAIRS At PITTSBURG
Special Correspondence OF ihe Register

Special Correspondence Of ihe Register.
PIrTsBURGH April 20.-The District Con-
vention of the Knights OF Labor which was
held here last night was one Of the largest
and most intelligent bodies which has yet
assembled to discuss the wage question.
While the discussions were all conducted
in moderate manner, the feeling OF the
meeting is better expressed in the Language
OF the resolutions adopted, than in any OF
the speeches made. They recognized fully
the urgency of the situation. and the fact
that the time was rapidly approaching when
the great struggle, so long impending, be-
tween labor and capital would begin, and
met the question by firm and unequivocal
determination.
The Committed on Statistics in their re-
port, which was unanimously adopted,
say:
WHEREAS, The assembling OF working
men for legitimate purposes, viz, looking
after their own interests, is by law a felony,
while the employers and capitalists may
meet for the worst purposes, viz:
To Crush Labor or Rob the Community
by making corners in pork, iron. bread
stufls, land, etc, and in this protected by
law: therefore
Rrsolrrd That all conspiracy laws bearing
on labor organizations be repealed at once
and labor and capital stand on the same
level before the law
WHEREAS. low wages beget poverty and
poverty begetS ignorance, crime and event
ually slavery; and,
WHEREAS, liberty can only be maintained
through virtue and intelligence, therefore
any system tending towards low wages
should meet the stern opposition of all
lovers OF liberty and haters of opposition
and.
WHEREAS, the BuIlingamc treaty has
opened our country TO the Pagan hOrde> OF
of China, from whence comes the most de-
graded clas- OF a people whose moral co2di-
ton is a. bad aS 1000 years Of heathenism
can make them aud whose physical condi'
ton is as low as the example of all the
crimes that have been known since
history was written can make them; and
''WIEREls. Those Pagan hOrdes are
brought here for the purpose Of furnishing
cheap labor. thereby compelling the Amer
lean laborer to come down t0 the low Level
OF the Chinaman and adopt his debased and
,tarviSh habits: and.
"WHEREAS, The pcople'of the Pacific coast
have been making noble fight to protect
us from this curse. and who have for years
been calling for relief, have at last been
heard by the Congress of the United States
which has passed bill for their relief in
the restriction Of Chinese immigration, but
which bill has been vetoed by the Presl
don't; therefore,
"RcsoIrc1. That District Assembly No. ),
L 4. Al g EINtt
composed of delegates representing 1908
workingmen. hereby denOunces said veto
as n stroke against labor and in favor oI
mOnOpolies-a stroke against
Liberty and the Rights of Civilized
Men.
"Rcsohcd. That while our employees
have often called, and never called in vain
on the labor element of this country TO as
sst them in obtaining laws TO protect their
capital against foreign competition, we, the
wealth producers of Allegheny county, ear
nCStly call on those employers TO assist IL
in obtaining laws TO protect our labor
against all forced and stimulated immigra
tion; that while We welcome to our shores
the oppressed of all nations that may come
through the legitimate channels OF immi
grafton, we will oppose with all our pow
serfs and coolies of the old world for thu
purpose of undermining the American CIT
liens.
"ReSDhcd, That We deeply sympathhc will
our brother laborerS of California am
pledge them our support. and that We vii
now take up the no Chinese agitation anC
carry the war into the camp OF the
Enemies OF Labor.
IT, L.; ~
Western Pennsylvania are IN need Of :.rnecia
gislatiOn-amendmen OF the mining laws
imposing penalty on employers and en-
plOyes for waving the store-Order law, anC
likewise timing operators who refuse tt
allow competent check weighmcn 10 sec
the coal weighed and 10 use q check. sheet
therefore.
"RcSoircd, That the united citizens COM
prsing Districts Three and Nine respect
fully demand our Legislators to see thai
these amendments are prepared and en-
acted.
The Coal Miners.
The news of the action OF the coal miners
of ohio has had very considerable effect
upon the situation here. When the cOnven.
tiOn was first called the operators main.
tained that the convention would not be 4
success; that the Ohio miners had agreed Ia
work for seventy cents per ton during the
summer months, and could not be induced
to strike for the old wages; when, however,
the news that the convention had assembled,
that il was success both in numbers and
the unaminity with which its resolves had
been adopted, they insisted that their aC.
tion would make no difference here; that
even if 80 cents were paid in Ohio it wsuld
benefit the miners only 10 the extent Of
preventing further reduction from IN
cents that at the latter price they would
still be paying more than is paid in Ohio.
and only the difference in the quality 81
the coal would help them out.
The miners representatives in the city,
however, take different view OF the mat
ter, and the action of the convention will
certainly delaya settlement in this district
for some time. The miners officers still
deny that coal is being mined at any pits
on the Panhandle for less than four cents
per bushel and the operators continue TO
assert that the reduction has been accepted
at Midway, Primrose and the Keystone
mines. BRIAN.