Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-08-05
A BOGUS SHEET.
How wheeling Newspaper Canvasser
Tried To Take In the Miners.


Editors National Labor Tribune.
CLARKsBURG, w. Va, July D.
There was an agent of the Wheeling
Intelligencer at this place last week.
He went to No. mine and got the boss
to 90 through the works with him. He
wanted to see all the miners and get
them to take the "iriend" of labor L?)
the Intelligencer. The Lord deliver Us
from such friend! The first man he
struck was X. of l.. He asked if he
would not subscribe for his paper. The
miner told him he did not want his
paper; that ne took the Labor Tribune,
and that it was
The workingmen's Paper.
The agent then asked him If his time
was not up with the Tribune. The
miner said it was, but he was going to
renew his subscription. The agent
said, "You should take our paper: we
have X. oils working in our Office
He tried every way to get the men to
take it, but he only got few, and he
would have not got them only for the
boss being along. Some of those who
did take it are going to stop it.
He went from the No. = mine TO
Smiths, and told tine boss that he was
the mine inspector, and that he want
ed to go in where the miners were
working. The boss started into the
mines with him, and he soon found out
that he was only an agent for the ln-
telligencer. Well, he got few men to
subscribe, but
They Got Disguised
with one issue. To show you how
much this man knows about air, he
wrote for his paper long article about
the good air i'm the Smith mines. The
air is so bad in this mine that the men
cannot keep their lamps lit, and il is
dangerous.
Last Saturday, the 2est of July, the
Killeen brothers, who work together,
had q lively experience. Pat hilleen
was going to load a hole, when Pat
Collingham fired shot and the foul
air, gas and black damp took fire and
knocked down his brother. Martin
saw him fall. The room was on fire,
and they say you could see distance of
two hundred feet. Killeen called for
help, and dragged his other brother 25
feet, when he came to himself. He then
crawled down where
The Air Was Some Better,
and it was ten minutes before he could
speak.
The workingman's friend p the In
telligencer, saws the mine Is well YeHti-
lated! "Quilp, when you write again,
confine yourself to the truth, and don't
misrepresent everything. He says the
air in No. mine is better than it Is out
side. The best of the joke was on Pike,
the mine boss at Smiths. When they
came out the agent thanked Pike and
told him he would send him the paper
for his kindness. Pike thought that he
would get it free. The agent gave the
subscribers to Smith, so he would
Stop Their subscriptions
on pay day, and Pixies name was in
eluded. Pike Is the maddest man in
America. You ought to have heard
him swear.
This agent tried every way to get
men to subscribe for his paper when
their time was up with the Tribune.
Workingmen, do not put club In the
hand Of others to break your heads
with, but subscribe for the Labor Tri-
bune. Can you see that "Quilp" has
misrepresented you in the start? have
heard that he sends one paper to the
operators and another to the miners. L
will soon find this out.
Yours, &C., JUAN.
50
The Amalgamented Convention.
The annual convention Of the Anal
gamated Association will convene In
the Assembly building, Chestnut street,
Philadelphia, on Tuesday next, the 7th
Of August. There Is every promise Of a
harmonious and business-like meeting,
and that theresult will be such as may
reasonably be expected from these in
dications and from the excellent condi-
ton of the organization, there Is no
room to doubt. We hope the good for
tune which has hitherto attended the
selection of officers will be repeated to
the fullest on this Qocasion.-Labor
Tribune.