Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-12-06


standard coal company in the Hooking
Valley, and the result had sbeen untold
misery to thousands. There was but one
way to combat this tendency, and that was
through organizations of labor. Cheers J
That was the one weapon with which wor &
ingmen had it in their power to do battle
against the schsners who had untold mil
lions at their command. If they failed to
use il, the Republic would inevitably go
down in the darkness Of an ohgRrchy, or
the darkness Of anarchy and communism.
There could be no middle course, and one
was no worse than the other. he would ss
soon be governed BY the Mob as
by Monopoly. The Trades As
semblies were as much opposed TO the one
as the other. Their motto wss to do
away with both. They sought, by the bet
tr.ment of the middle classes, to make
the whole population
HAPPY AND COMMENTED.
There must be q government by the peo-
pie, for the people, or no government at all.
He called attention to another injustice.
Capital, he said, unmindful that for years
labor had voted for the shutting out Of
foreign made goods, unmindful of the fact
that it had erectedisround this country
wall protecting our infant manufactures,
and enabling capitalists to add untold
wealth 10 their bank accounts, unmlndtnl
of the fact that workiDgmen were at all
times willing to vote to advance the inter
ests of their employers, had opened up
beneath the workman's feet vast sewer,
through which there annually poured bum
dreds of thousands Of foreign workmen,
ready to work for pittance and drive
Americans to want.
The speaker said that the tendency Ct
legislation was to restrict the liberties Of
individuals. Following in the wake Of
the Standard Oil Company, it would not
be long, at the present rate. until we
should have but one Gil company one nail
company, one glass company, one iron
company, one telephone company, one tel.
egraph company, and so on. There would
then remain but
SINGLE STEP
to bring on the Age of Monopoly. That
was to combine all these in one vast cor
poration, when there would be one gigantic
Board of Directors debating to hundred
million Of people. Where would our boast
ed liberties be then? 1t was possible We
would sill possess our form of government.
1t would not hurt the great monopolistic
President to allow his hireliugs to elect q
President Of the United States, for 10 that
day the mouopoliet would be so big that
the Presidents o7ercost would not make q
patch for his pautaloons. That age was
coming. Small manufacturers we're going
10 the wall one By one. All along ouI
streets, trsdesmeu aud small shop keepers
we're in Strengthened circumstances, and
slowly but surely the people were marching
along, led By Death and Despair, and fol
lowed by Woe and Want.
The speaker then turned his attention 10
the press and the pulpit, and warned his
hearers that they could not be relied upon
in the great struggle inwhich they were
engaged. He concluded his remarks amid
great applause.
SECRETARY JOHN EHNAN
was then called for, and he came forward
in response to the invitation. He began
By saying he had not expected to be called
upon, and had therefore made no prepare
tions for q speech. He at once turned hi:
attention to the local status of the
miners aud nailers. He said whenever a
manufacturer or mine owner found he was
unable 10 compete" with some one else
he sought to better himself by cutting
down wages The speaker wanted to
change the system and wanted to level up.
When the cry of inability to compete wac
raised he would increase wages, instead Of
decreasing them. The nail strike was next
taken up and handled in very earnest
manner, evoking applause at frequent in.
tervals. The nail feeders, he said, had
stood out molly with the nailers in the great
fight, and in the future their needs and Dr.
msnds must be met and recognized. He
must be looked upon as one of the in
dispensible factors in the mailing trade, and
the man who would refuse to recognize
them would regret it. The mailer and
feeder must henceforth 60 hand in
hand, one and insepsrable. He
spoke words Of encouragement 10 the nail
ers, calling attention 10 the TACT that in six
montbs, With ali The vast influences OF cap.
itsl and the press behind them, but six
hundred machines had been set in motion.
he explained the late increase in the mum.
Der of machines in operation, az aaoNa 10
THE MANUFACTURERS WEEKLY STATEMENTS.
was caused by giving feeder.pailers FIVE al {
six machines each, instead Of the four
which constituted regular job. Ii was
by this suhtsrtugs that the public was
gulled. He made an earnest appeal TO the
working feeders to come out OF the works
and join hands, at the eleventh hour with
the strikers. Should this be done, the
mills would at once be compelled 10 shut
down, and the scale would have to be
signed, to the manifest advantage Of ALL
The strike was in the face of market
which would Justify the wsges claimed, and
having stood out for the 2l.cent scale six
months, nailers were willing to stand out six
months more, if necessary. Cheers.
The speaker closed by making one more
appeal for Ties feeder 10 stand up for high
wages, asking them TO come out Of the
mills and end the strike.
President Bort then camel forward, aud
ssid he had been instructed by the Execu-
tive Committee to announce TO the audi.
ence that if there were present any class
of men not belonging to the Trades AFsem-
biz, who desired wrongs done them light
ed, they had only to address q commuuica.
ton to the committee, and the men would
be called together Sud thsir grievances
considered. Mr. Burtt wRs on the point of
retiring, when be wss londly called for to
continue, and in response addressed some
remarks especially TO the r1fuers si:tr
which the meeriug a3ioG7aai.
49,
A SPLENDID stock Ct goods suitable for
the holidays, just received. Geo. II,
SGook / Co.
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