Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-16

HEAD OE WELFARE OF he
UNION CIRCULARS ENDORSING
MLEAN DISTRIBUTED TO THE
MEMBERS RoUTINE MATTERS
CONSIDERED.
There was a fairly well attended
meeting of the Belmont Central Trades
and Labor Union at Bellaire yesterday,
and the proceedings of the body are
here appended:
The Union was called to order at
80 o'clock by President C. A. James.
Secretary C. H. Smith at the desk. Roll
call indicated the presence of twenty
five delegates and officers.
Minutes of the previous meeting were
read and adopted.
List of absentees read, and where the
period exceeded the constitutional limit
locals were notified to that effect.
There was no business under the
head of strikes and unfair list or the
admission and obligation of delegates.
The picnic committee was continued,
as all collections have not yet been
made.
Two hundred and fifty dollars of the
net proceeds from the picnic were or
dered deposited in some bank to the
credit of the Union. The remainder of
the funds were turned into the hands
of the treasurer of the Union.
The chairman of the arbitration COM
mittee being absent on account of sick
ness, the two Martins Ferry black
smiths were not placed upon the unfair
list. The case was not taken up, as
the recommendation of the arbitration
committee was not at hand.
A communication was read from Sec
rotary Jos. A. Bauer, of the Ohio FEEDER
alton of Labor, announcing the six
teenth annual convention, which will be
held at Dayton on Tuesday, December
9Th. Each trades assembly, district as
sembly or central labor union in the
State shall be entitled to one delegate
for every one hundred members or ma
jor fraction thereof, upon which per
capita is paid to the organization.
Each local organization shall be enti-
tied to one representative for one hun
dred members or less, and one addi-
tional representative for every one hum
bred members or major fraction there
of, after the first one hundred.
Forty minutes of the latter portion of
the session was devoted to the discus
sion of the objects and purposes of cen
trail labor bodies. Interesting short
talks were made by President C. A.
James, T. L. Lewis, Geo. w. Curtis, ].
E. Morehouse, A. R. Hall, Ed. Parsons,
G. H. Smith and others.
During the meeting the secretary an
nounced that he had received num-
Der of circulars from the Building and
Trades Council of Cincinnati, and asked
what disposition should be made of
them. President James said that since
the circulars apparently had some po-
litical significance the rules of the
Union would permit them be-
ing read or discussed, but they were
ordered distributed to the members in
their seats. The Cincinnati workmen
favor the election of John r. Mclean
for Governor because of his friendly
attitude toward labor and also because
of the outspoken declarations incor-
porated in the GAINESVILLE platform upon
the labor question. The salient fea-
lures of the circular are embodied in
the following closing paragraphs, which
say:
I'VE call your attention to the fact
that the recent convention at GAINESVILLE
has submitted to the people and asks
your support for ticket that embodies
in its platform every just and reason
able demand that has been made or
ever contended for by the organized
labor of the State, either within or
without the sphere of our organizations.
If the convention had been one of the
trades unions and organized labor of
the State wherein could we have i'm
proved upon the platform and princi-
pies there promulgated? For the first
time in the political history of this
State have either of the great parties
given its unsolicited pledge to the sup
port of the demands of organized labor
and incorporated these demands in its