Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-04-28
TRADES ASSEMBLY.
BUSINESS DISPOSED OF At YESTERDAY" S REG
ULAR SESSION
The Carpenters Present Boycott List and Black
List Of Employers and Employers and En-
ployes-The Central Glass Works
Tuable-0ther Matters.

The regular mi-monthly meeting OF the
Ohio Valley Trades and Labor Assembly
was held yesterday afternoon at Trades
Assembly Hall, with good attendance Of
delegates. Owing TO illness, President
Wood was unable TO be in attendance, and
ex.President Wasseman presided, while
Secretary Salisbury held down his chair
with his usual ability
me first matter taken up was the trouble
between the lumber smo0thers and their
emplovers at the Central Glass Works 1t
win be remembered that Nail City
Federal Union presented commun-
cation % the last meeting OF
the Assembly. requesting that
the persons who had taken the places
of the smOothers be placed on the black list.
This the Assembly declined 20 do, and as
there We're no delegates from the local
union present at that meeting no remon-
STRANGE was made. Yesterday. however, a
delegate brought the matter up and wanted
TO know what kind of "a position the Assem-
bly was taking by its action. that even II
the strike of the smOOthers was not Just,
that was matter undecided and until IL
was decided unjust the Assembly was plac-
Ing itself in "a fatal position by refusing 10
I blacklist people who had taken the strlk
ers places This had the effect of having
the matter reconsidered. and il was laid
over until the next meeting of the Assem-
blv. at which time both sides viii have a
hearing.
The carpenters presented q boycott list,
including all the members OF the Builders
/ Exchange and other uOu-uuiOu contractors,
and a black list embracing all the employees
I of these contractors now 40 work, and IN
GLIDING four men who left the union TO 90
back 10 work. The Assembly formally en-
dorsed the action of the carpenters
The delegates from the Plasterers' union
reported Informally that number Of plas-
terers were working for the nOn-union con-
tractors. but as they had no perfect list and
their local had not vet acted upon the mat
ter. no action was taken by the Assembly
The Bloch Bros Tobacco Workers
Union. which took into its membership the
foremCn of the various departments of the
works. AGAINST the advice of the Assembly,
and also included "a beneficiary feature, as
/ a very prominent part of the organization,
had been refused "a charter by the Ameri-
can Federation. and were therefore unable
10 properly organize. They reported yes
terday that they had decided 90 exclude the
bosses and the beneficiary part, and Secre-
tarv Salisbury was authorized 10 conmu-
requesting that the union bee sent char
ter
A letter was received from Architect Ed.
Is Franzheim. thanking the Assembly for
having endorsed his plans for the new Jail.
4 letter from Governor Fleming was
also read I'M answer % the request that a
labor representative bee named as one OF
the Worlds Fair commissioners from this
State He said hc would take the matter
under consideration.
The Assembly instructed the Secretary
to communicate with Governor Campbell,
of Ohio. urging that VIM i. kiusey, of
Blaine. Ohio. Dee named as one of the Com
missioncrs from that State Mr. kiusey is
q member of the Carpenters Brotherhood.
The GrocerS' Committee reported prog
ress.
Owing 10 the fact that the present Fed
Grafton and X OF l.. organizers are all un-
available at this time, the Assembly dc
cided 20 request the appointment of three
additional Federation and two X. of /.
organizers. Messrs. Richard Robertson.
Henry Schenk and r. v Salisbury were
named as the first three and Messrs. Con
rad Waseman and VIM i. klnsey for the
the Is. of l..
The Joseph Bell Stove Company was or
dercd % Doe placed on the boycott list and
the stove filters employed 10y the firm were
ordered blacklstcd
LabOrers' Union extended au invitation
10 the Organization Committee and the del
egates generally % be present ~ the next
meeting. Friday night, an Market Hall, as
IL is their desire 20 make the union as big a
success as possible Several other matters
of NO public Importance were disposed of,
and the assembly adjourned.