The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-04-25
COOPERATIVE STORE
To BIO Run by tho Farmers Alliance
and TRADES Assembly.
JEWELRY FIRM BOYCO7TED
For Refusing to Close Mt Six o'clock
In the Evening. all other Jewellers In
tho City having Agreed TO Do so.
Tho Trouble with the Martins Ferry
Union not yet Adjusted.

There was n fair attendance ut the
regular meeting OF the Trades Assembly
yesterday afternoon. President Donloy
was in tho chair. Credentials from
delegates Of the street car operators
and conductors and the EMBELLISHMENTS
unions were presented, and tho dele.
gates were present.
The Mononcah coal boycott com.
mittcc reported that only ono car load
OF scab coal per week was now being
sold in tho city. The boycott on Adam
Smith was declared 10 DO still in force.
The committee appointed to confer
with the Farmers Alliance regarding
the formation OF IN industrial union,
reported that a conference had boon
held OH April, u, and resolutions and q
plan OF union formed. Tho joint com.
mittce agreed on q plan OF cooperation
to carry out the intcntionso OF the union.
After agreeing that the Trades Assem-
bly, and Farmers Alliance should sup.
port each other in all fair demands the
following was adopted:
Tho Farmers Alliance and tho
Trades Assembly agree 10 form
an association TO DO known as
the Producers Cooperative Associn-
ton, organized for tho purpose OF re-
ducing the cost OF exchange OF products
ms between producer and consumer, and
establis hing a uniform rate OF exchange
in harmony with labor performed and
risks assumed.
Tho principal Office shall be in the
city OF Wheeling and the business that
OF deallngin farms products, machinery,
groceries and general merchandise.
The capital to consist OF one thousand
shares OF S. each with privilege OF in
%creasing to ten thousand shares. % per
cent to bepaidin and the rcmainderto be
paid quarterly. This stock may only be
held by organizations Interested in the
success OF tho enterprise and not trans.
ferable except as from ono organization
10 one OF similar character subject to
the approval OF the board OF directors.
The holders OF said certificates shall not
be hold liable for other sums than the
stock subscribed, the president and
treasurer being responsible for the I'M
paid amount OF stock. When the shares
are nll taken n meeting OF the stock
holders or their delegates shall select a
suitable agent or agents to transact tho
business and elect q board OF five direc-
tors, who shall devise a plan OF business
and who shall meet once each quarter
to examine the account and general
condition OF the business aud report
the result to the shareholders. The
directors may separate the business
into departments, placing IN agent over
each, who shall be responsible for:his
department. All business shall be
done on 4 cash basis. The agents sal
AIRY shall be paid at the close of each
quarter, and rents for rooms paid
monthly, in advance. All firms doing
business with this association, shall be
required to furnish two bills of sale, one
OF which shall be mailed direct 10 the
president OF association, the otherto the,
agent. The president shall be q men,
Der Of tho board OF directors; said
board to consist OF five members, who
shall meet at the beginning Of each
quarter 10 audit accounts. The agent
alonei is responsible for debts.
No agent OF salesman will be permit
ted to mlsreprescnt IN article to effect a
sale. The board OF directors shall re-
ceivc n dollar and fifty cents per day
and expenses, two days for each quar-
ter to be tho maximum. All goods
shall be sold at the lowest retail rates
prevailing, and after all expenses are
| roiI tho rrnft for tln Er,t tHr,a,.
DO applied to extending the business.
The committee decided to refer this
matter TO tho Trades Assembly for
Endorsement. The committee de-
cided to recommend the holding
OF 4 joint convention on second
Monday OF May in Trades Assembly
hall at 10 n. m, and the representation
be fixed at two delegates from each un-
ion and sub-alliancc, and 200 copies Of
these resolutions be printed for the ben
etit OF the local unions.
The report was read and adopted sec
ton by section.
On the jewelry store carly closing
movement the arbitration committee
reported that it had seen all the jewell
ry firms in the city and all but one had
uSTceu 10 ClOSe up III u CLOCK IN the
evening during eight months in the
year, except every Saturday evening
and during October, November, Deem
Der and January, the agreement to 90
into effect May ].
Jeweler 1Iillman, having refused to
sign the agreement, WIS declared to
DO in a state OF boycott, unless he shall
have signed the agreement by the first
day OF May.
The matter OF the expulsion OF tho
scab miners from local union No. 4Ool,
Of Martins Ferry, who obtained ad-
mittance into the union as laborers,
came up. On the eth OF last month
the local union was instructed to eXpcl
these men,, aud ii they were not ex-
PEELED in thirty days the local unions
delegates would be refused admission to
the hall OF the Trades Assembly. As
the thirty days had not expired, further
consideration OF the matter was post
poncd until the next meeting OF tho
Assembly.