Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-01-27
CEO. M. SHOOK & CO.
TIE moNoNGAH COAL BOYCOTT.
Statement from General Manager spill
man.
OFFICE MoNoNGAH Coal COKE Co.,
MoNoNGAH, w. WA,
JANrAPY % 1902


OFFICE MoNoNGAH Coal COKE Co.,
MoNoNGAH, w. WA,
JANUARY %, 1892.
- the Editor Of the Rsqtstsr'
SIR:-By means of circulars scattered
broadcast through Wheeling the Commit
| tee of the Trades Assembly endeavor 10
twist and comfort existing facts in the mat
! ter of the Wheeling boycott OF Monongah
coal in a way 10 enlist the sympathy Of the
good people Of Wheeling.
For instance, they take ten or twelve
names out of sixty or seventy that Mr.
| Crumbacker published and add man here
and boy there as helpers and then init
mate that Mr.. Crumbacker selects these
| ten or twelve from list Of over seven hun
/ dred employees.
Again they refer to our store as ''pluck
mel store, knowing that the public gen
orally are acquainted with that old evil and
all honest people condemn it, and they
think by FASTING that name on US they viii
do us harm. A falsehood more or less or a
wrong act, even though in violation Of the
law, matters not TO them. They are ire
sponsible.
I l have already published the fact that we
! do not compel our men 20 deal with US. We
| have men still in our employ who have not
dealt in the Company's store for year or
more.
On what ground and for what object is
| the Wheeling Trades Assembly bidding
7 for the sympathy and aid Of the trades
men and merchants of Wheeling Are
they endeavoring TO give 10 wheeling a
better and cheaper fuel than she has been
usingl ! Judge not, as they say by sys-
tenn of robbery we are enabled TO under
sell Pennsylvania coal and they boycott
! US. Are they in fact trying to accomplish
ANYTHING in which the people OF Wheeling
are Interested Yes; they are trying to
keen out of Wheeling this cheaper and
better coal. Ask the Trades Assembly
! Committee in regard to the price, and ask
our customers in Wheeling in regard 10
The Committee says to the tradesmen
and merchants of Wheeling whose GUS
toners they are: "Stand by us, for our
prosperity is your gain.
have no doubt but that the merchants
and manufacturers and all the rest OF
Wheeling can easily figure whether as a
matter of policy it is better to stand by the
| Trades Assembly, with it's QuiXotic idea
of compelling our men TO adopt their no.
tions bv boycotting their business, or to
cultivate the good will and trade OF the
=. 900 miners of this district and their fam
lilies together with the merchants OF Fair
mont and Palatine who are vitality inter
eSted in us.
Monongah Coal and Coke Company alone
spent in Wheeling in 1891, twenty thousand
dollars, or in exact figures S9,6OO.5S.
Wheeling draws from this region not
less than one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars a wear in trade, and in five years 1t
will be five times that much.
The Committee applies TO us the word
"scabn which, believe, is the vilest word
in their vocabulary. We define 1t in
different way out here. With us 1t means
a man with brains enough TO work where
he can make the most money.
Example: If John Smith does not pay
him as much as Jim Doe, he leaves John
Smith and works for Jim Doe.
Do the Fairmont miners think they might
do better in other localities! II so they
would go where they can make the most
money. Actions are more significant than
words.
ON the contrary, the tide is flowing the
other Way, | regret TO say we have been
compelled 10 refuse between four and i've
thousand applications for work IN the last
year at Monongah alone.
regret that we did not have work for
these men because they came from delegate
ridden districts to seek peace, contentment,
happiness and prosperity in the Miners
Edenn
With the accumulation of wisdom and
Judgment on the part of the miners the agi-
tator is getting to be thing Of the past, a
fungous growth is being Topped of and left
to decay, and in bidding adieu to him we
desire to express our thanks for the incl
dental favors we received at his hands.
Due to his getting up strike with US a
year ago, the fame Of Monongah went
abroad in the land, and brought us more
men than we could use besides extra mar
ket for coal and. coke, and more wisdom TO
our employees. We also tender our comph-
ments to the Committee of the Trades AS
sembly for the numerous circulars scatter
ed through Wheeling at their expense and
headed in big black letters MONONGAH
COAL. Very truly yours,
B. d. SPILMAN.
General Manager.