Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-05-02
A REGULAR MEETING
Of Belmont Central Trades and Labor
Union Yesterday at Bellalre.

Union Yesterday at Bellaire.
A Boycott on the Lozier Manufac-
turing Company Declared Of by
| the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Appeal
| ing for the Freedom of Capt. Hart,
Who is Serving a Sentence for
Alleged Violation Of the Neutral
| ity Laws That Existed Between
America and Spain, Unanimous
ly Adopted, and Will be For
! warded to Congressman Danford.
| Other Business Transacted.
| Quite an interesting meeting was
| held yesterday afternoon in G. A. K.
hall, at Bellaire, by the Belmont Cen
| trail Trades and Labor Union. The
| meeting was called to order at 2:30
o'clock by President Henry Kunkel,
with Vice President Larkin and Sec
| rotary Culbertson in their respective
| chairs and a goodly number of dele.
gates present The session opened
with prayer. The roll of officers was
! then called, the minutes of the previous
meeting read and adopted, the names
| of the absentees read and excused, and
! the following business taken up:
! Delegate Acey Jackman, from the
| Milkmen's Association at Martin S
! Ferry, presented credentials and was
, duly obligated.
| Under the head of strikes, a dele
| gate from Local No. As stated that at
a recent meeting of the miners of Mar
! tins Ferry and Bridgeport, he was in
! structed to report to the Union in or
| der to secure aid for the miners, the
fact that several peddling mine opera
tors have refused to put in the regu
lation screens. and also that some OF
| the Martins Ferry operators have re
! fused to pay the scale rate. By mo-
| ton carried, the arbitration commit
| tee was given power to act in aid of
| the miners.
Under the same head, T. l.. Lewis,
| secretary of the Ohio Miners, reported
| that the men at Kelly's mines and at
| DillCnvale were still on strike
| Bion Williams, of the special COM
mittee reported to consider plans for
| the appropriate observance of Labor
Day, took the floor and reported that
| the committee favored having an eX
| cursion, either on water Or by rail.
! A motion to receive the committees
| report and have the committee con-
! tinued, was made and seconded and
caused a little wrangling among the
| delegates, some fayoring it and others
expressing their disapproval. The
motion was finally carried unanimous
ly.
T. l.. Lewis, secretary Of tho Ohio
miners, stated before the Union that
had learned from a member of the
| Bellaire printers union that the union
| had applied for charter.
| A communication was received and
read by the secretary. 1t stated that
| the trouble between the metal polish
| ers and the bicycle workers unions
| and the Lozier Manufacturing Com
pany, had been adjusted satisfactorily
| to all concerned This communication
| caused Delegate Stein to take the
| floor and make motion that the boy
| colt placed upon the LoZier Company
| several weeks before by the Belmont
| Central Trades and Labor Union be
lifted in this vicinity, and that such
action. together with the substance of
| the communication received, be spread
upon the minutes. Mr.. Stein made
few remarks, saying that the settle
| ment OF the difficulties was a signal
! victory for organized labor. The mo-
| ton carried unanimously.
One of the trustees charged with
the duty of investigating the case OF
| the eX-treasurer, reported that the
| trustees had met the eX-treasurer and
| oh nyf1Ir To 70 r
ter. A motion to have the trustees
| meet the ex-treasurer was carried.
The chair announced that nomina
lions for candidate for warden were
| open. A motion was made that the
| chair appoint a warden for the rest
| of the year, and it carried. The chair
| then appointed Calvin Gathers to fill
the office of warden made vacant by
| Mr. Johnson.
Delegate Stein took the floor and
| stated that as the financial condition
| q. the Union might be better, ~
moved that a concert be given not
later than May 23d, under the auspices
of the body, for the purpose of raising
funds, and that committee OF three
be appointed to make preparations for
| the same, and it was seconded. An
| amendment was then made to the
motion that the committee be composed
| of five instead of three. The motion
as amended was passed. The follow
ing named delegates were selected by
| the chair to compose the committee:
| Messrs. Morse, Miller, Bion Williams
| David Jones and I. L. Lewis.
Delegate Stein then arose and
! moved that the Union draft and
adopt resolutions to be forwarded to
| Congressman Danford imploring him
to WELD his influence with the Chief
| Executive for the restoration of free
dom of Captain Hart, OF the steamer
Dauntless, now serving two years
sentence for an alleged violation of
the neutrality law that existed between
this country and Spain. The motion
was Immediately and unanimously
adopted. The president then appointed
| a committee of three to act in concur
renee with the motion, and they re-
| tired
Later the following communication,
| addressed to Congressman Danford
and containing preamble and resOu-
tons regarding the case of Capt. Hart