Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-10-29
THE MINORITY'S EDICT.
THE DELEGATES TO THE OHIO VALLEY
TRADES AND LABOR ASSEMBLY
highly Resolve To Boye,ti Some Fifteen Thousand
People Fer the High Crime Of Attsndingb
Their Own Business.

The evening publication, the organ Of
the secret tribunal now attempting to
either rule or ruin this city, keeps the fol-
lowing paragraph at the head of a column
on its editorial page.
80 the Labor Organizations ofahs Ohio Iagsy.
''Your delegates in regular session of the
Ohio Valley Trades and Labor Assembly,
o N Sunday, October "a, unanimously de
cided to place a boycott upon all who take
these papers, who advertise in them and
who in any manner p~atronize those Offices
As it is probable comparatively few
people in this city have had an opportuni-
ty of reading this latest enactment of the
leaders of the conspiracy against Freedom
and Right, it is here inesrted that the
citizens of distinguishes men, work.
men and capitalists alike-may take no.
tice of the extent of the boycott so lately
proclaimed AID sought to be established
among US.
The language Of the paragraph Is plain.
Not only does it place the two morning
newspapers OF this city under a boycott,
but some fifteen thousand PeOple-"all
who take these papers, who advertise in
them, and who in and manner p%atrOnlze
those ofices'-are likewise brought within
the prescription.
Citizens of Wheeling, think of it!
score of mer, representing, according to
the statement of q prominent labor leader
at q public meeting, but seven hundred
voters" deliberately place q boycott upon
every man, woman and child who may
venture to subscribe for, read or advertise
in the only English newspapers printed in
the city. This is the rule of tie Minority
with q Vengeance Minority actuated,
too, by an entire divorce from every sentl-
ment of honor. 1t is the edict of Force
against Justice-the ukase of the incar-
nation of Wrong against Right-the de-
termination of an organization, led
by irresponsible and ~unthlnking men, to
trample in the dust, at whatever cost, the
divine gift OF liberty and freedom, which
is the heritage of every American citizen.
The boycott committee yesterday con-
tinued its work of going up and down the
streets, seeking to terrorize citizens into
disseminating advertisements and SUBJ
ScriptiOns to the REGISTER and MteNi-
Gencer. In no ease did the men thus en-
gagged meet with any encouragement, and
often did they stink from the presence of
a merchant whose righteous indignation
they had provoked by their demands.
In one instance, where the committee
called upon n merchant and solicited him
to take out his advertisement from the
morning papers and keep it in the evening
publication, he said: How can support
the evening paper aud not the morning
papers? There are Il large number Ofpeo-
pie who are not members of your o~rganiza-
tion, and whom you are ~antagonizing. /
am in business, and | want
the custom of all classes. II /
follow your behests, l will lose
the patronage of those who dis
countenance the methods you employ. In
aiding you / injure myself very mate
rally. l can't do it. | must advertise in
all the papers, or none. Good morning"
We understand that in several instances
where the boycott committee has called
upon merchants, they have been asked to
give their names, the Lodges or Orders
they represent, and requested to put in
writing the exact nature of their demand.
This is 4 splendid idea, and should be
adopted by everyone upon whom the com
mittee waits.