Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-20

TO THE CONSTITUTIONAL DIS
CUSSION REGARDING FRATER-
NAL AND REGULAR DELE
GATESLBRIEF ADJ ESSES
MADE BUSINESS
TRANSACTED.
Yesterday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock
the Belmont Central Trades and Labor
Union Assembled in regular session at
Odd Fellows hall, in Bellaire, with a
fairly good attendance Of the delegates.
The meeting was called to order by
President Henry Kunkel, with Vice
President Williams and Secretary Smith
in their respective chairs. The pro-
ceedings throughout the session were
quite interesting and the various mat
tiers brought up were debated upon to
some extent. After the opening prayer
had been said by President Kunkel,
the roll was called and the minutes of
the previous meeting, as read aloud
by the secretary, were duly adopted.
The names of absentees during the
past month we're read by the secretary,
and the various excuses for absence as
offered were accepted.
The following delegates, having pre-
sented credentials, were obligated IN
due time: J. C. Davis, of Bridgeport
BARRIERS union; w. C. Flading, Of the
Ohio Valley Trades and Labor Assem-
bly,, at Wheeling; H. J. Cecil and c. A.
James, Of Union No. Sc, A. A. of l., t.
& S. W., at Martins Ferry; Alexander
Dunlap, of Union No. go, U. M. w. of
A, at Bellaire; Taylor Roy, of Union
No. 430, u. M. w. of A., at Halls Sid
ing; William Kompart, of Bellaire bar
bers' union; Daniel Detweiler, of Union
No. ITO, U. B. of c.. & j., at Bridgeport;
and George Dittman, of Ohio Valley
Trades and Labor Assembly, at Wheel
ing.
The list of boycotts as authorized
by the Belmont Central Union was
then read before the assemblage by the
secretary. The communication receiV-
ed from the Belmont BARRIERS union at
Martins Ferry, concerning the unfair
manner in which a certain firm OF that
city is doing business at present, was
read also, after which, by a motion
unanimously carried, the case was
taken up and handed over to the arbi-
tration committee for investigation.
By a motion unanimously adopted it
was ordered that not less than one
hundred copies of the bylaws of the
Union be printed and that each dele
gate pay ten cents for a copy thereof.
The bond of the newly appointed
treasurer, George Miller, was submitted
and accepted.
A motion was made in written form
by Delegates Williams and Parsons,
amending Sec. 3 of Art. s of the Con-
stitution, to the effect that the words,
Such salary as the union may hX,N
concerning the salary granted to the
secretary, be stricken out and that b
words, Receive for his services ten
dollars per year. be inserted. After
the motion had been seconded Delegate
James offered an amendment that
twelve dollars be inserted. The mo-
ton as amended, after some wrang-
H. $1,000 +hN ,oo1ohorc woo fn1IlU
carried.
A considerable length of time was
occupied by the assembly in discussing
the meaning of the words 'fraternaI'
and regular" as terms applied to dele
gates to the union, and the question
warmly debated by a number OF
the delegates. Motions that the union
decide upon one word or the other, I'M
Ger certain conditions, as the fixed
term, were made at various times dur
ing the controversy, but received no
second. The different remarks tended
to show thai the word "fraternal' as
used by the union meant friendly
while the word regular" as applied
to a delegate, signifed that the dele
gate had unlimited voice in the senti-
ments and a vote in the proceedings
of the union, by which his credentials
we're accepted as presented. I. L.
Lewis, secretary of the Ohio miners,
who was present, was called upon to
explain the matter as far as he could,
and responding, said that the Belmont
Central Union had appointed dele
gates to the Ohio Valley Trades Assem-
bly, hat they might report grievances to
that union and the Ohio Valley Trades
Assembly seated them, giving them full
voice. Mr.. Lewis further stated that
when it was seen that this step further
taken. the Belmont Central Union
acted accordingly. The question was
finally laid on the table, to be again
taken I'D after a conference has been
held between two committees, one to
be composed of delegates of the Ohio
Valley Assembly and the other of dele
~+oc Of tho belmont Union.