The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-02-28

harmless demand, but, mark tho result
since then wages have been reduced
right along at the will OF tho company,
aud no later than in Sundays Register
OF February 10th, is an account Of Il
difficulty in that factory with tho buff
ers or polishers, who, the account says,
are receiving from s. 90 TO 50 so per
day, and are asked to pay, out Of their
wages each week, 81 30 for two wheels,
and 30 cents each day for polish; total,
81 80. Ii the reverend gentleman will
accompany us, We will take him to the
home OF workman employed there,
who with q wife and child, comprise
tho family, and n cherries home 1t Is,
for this American workman Is expected
to support this family, buy food and
clothing, pay rent and pay all the hun
dred inCidentals necessary to make lie
tolerable on the princely sum oil five
dollars per week, A single man tells
us he receives five dollars per week,
pays four dollars for board, 40 cents for
washing. and 10 cents for shave. Now
he has the sum OF 80 cents per week to
save or squander; to buy tailor made
suits, or, unless he attends Rev. Riker's
Sunday afternoon lectures, TO spend in
dangerous dissipation, and mark you,
all in Free America"
No wonder the doctors have black
list of delinquents, the merchants their
collective agency, etc, Wheeling is an
industrial city and its prosperity is
closely related with the welfare OF its
hundreds OF workmen and the profess
sional man and the merchant know full
well that a dollar in the pockets OF its
workmen ia worth more to them than If
that dollar went into the pockets OF the
construction company.
The Trades Assembly has ordered the
names OF the persons who please to
ride on the street cars, and who assist
this company to distress its workmen,
10 be printed and put in the hands OF
every workman in the city, and whether
they BIO merchant, professional man or
politician this workman will find it to
his interest to exercise that American
principle they talk so much about, and
have nothing more to do with him, 1t
was ordered to hold mass meeting il
necessary to arouse the workmen to tho
gravity OF the situation.
Our City Council was some time ago
requested to take action tending toward
terminating this difficulty, and we GER
tainly expect them to show tho same
alacrity in coming to our assistance as
was shown in protecting the companY's
property. Is property OF more value
than the lives and welfare OF its citi-
zens? The workmen of Wheeling de-.
mand fair and equal recognition at the
hands Of our city government.
We thank those citizens who have
stood by these street car workers, and
hope they will continue to do SO until q
settlement is effected.
In seeking to raise wages, to improve
tho condition OF labor, we are not seek
ing the good OF class, but the good OF
the whole. The number OF those who
can live on the labor OF others Is and
can be but small as compared with the
number who must labor to live, and
where labor yields tho largest results to
the laborer, where the production is
largest and its distribution most equit-
able, then tho man who has nothing
but his labor is sure5t of making the
most comfortable living best providing
for those whom nature has made dopon:
dent upon him, there, We believe, will
be the best condition OF life for all
there will be that condition, that so
many speak OF. Free American citizen
ship, that alone will make this govern.
ment great and strong, most abound.
Respectfully,
LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE,
". L. & L. A.