Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-06-19

wealth OF the country is centered IN
one-ninth of the population, he re-.
garded as threatening the perpetuity OF
the government. While it was rather
irrelevant, Mr.. Morgan's talk was in
| teresting.
The resolutions were unanimously
adopted
Mr. Bauer offered a resolution of
thanks to Col. Thomas O'Brien ..for the
manly, upright and vigorous stand
taken by him in the meeting of the
Chamber of Commerce, in his exposure
Of the scheme originated by the street
railway company, and sought to be
pushed through by their underlings, to
defeat a just and righteous cause
Mr. Tighe took the position that
trades unionists and the public gener-
ally are indebted to Colonel O'Brien for
the exposure Of what ne regarded, and
every fair-minded man must regard, as
meeting which was held solely in the
interest of the Wheeling Railway Com
pany. He asserted that the cause Of
the strikers is just, and that in that
! knowledge they have no fear of set
Element brought about by arbitration.
Delegate Edward Gillies also favored
the resolution. which was adopted
unanimously by rising vote. A reso-
luton thanking all who supported Mr..
O'Briens position was adopted in a
similar manner.
Attention was called by Mr.. Tighe to
a report which has been circulated, to
the effect that the Elks were behind
the Chamber of Commerce movement.
He was authorized to emphaticaliy
deny the report, and to state that the
Elks will make arrangements for a
wagon service. Delegate Sims men
toned reports which he had heard, and
thought an investigation should be
made in justice to all concerned
Messrs. Byrne, RAIDER and Hecker were
appointed TO wait upon the Elks at
their meeting tomorrow night.
The executive board was instructed
to use every effort to induce Eugene V.
Debs to speak here during the week.
Debs is now in Cleveland. Mr.. Tighe
reported the probability of securing
some of the prominent speakers who
| have been invited to address the work
ing people of Pittsburg next week.
Secretary Salisbury presented re-
port of the action of the Bellaire CEN
trail body, embracing the resolutions
adopted by that body, which are pub
lished elsewhere.
Mr.. Tighe moved to reject the reso-
buttons, and spoke to his motion with
considerable feeling. He declared that
he was tired of such chicanery. 1t was
an insult to the men who are strug
Cling for an existence, and who are
III ae fbo;r
own strike. So long as he was presi-
dent of the o. ", T. & l.. A. he would
never consent to course which struck
him as so manifestly unfair and unjust.
No person has any right to dictate the
policy of the street railway strikers, or
to say to them that they shall accept
anything less than that for which they
are struggling. If the assembly ac-
cepted such proposition, the body was
not made of such material as he
thought. He denounced the Bellaire
body in unmeasured terms, and de-
nounced the employees of the B., B. Sc
NJ. F. line for the piteous appeal they
made through the press, in the face
of the gallant struggle for living wages
and for their rights as American citi
zens, which the strikers have made
for ten weeks.
A. L. Bauer stated that he lad op-
posed the resolutions at the Bellaire
meeting, and still opposed them for
the reason that he regarded such action
as a usurDation Of the rights of the
street car workers.
John j .Byrne also attended the Bellaire
meeting. He stated that the resolutions as
al off IN,
the form in which they came to the AS
sembly. They provided for a committee
of the two bodies to bring about a settle
ment and contained threat of removal
Of the boycotts unless the strikers accept
such a settlement as is made by the joint
committees
A question arose as to who organized the
B., B. & NJ F. street railway employees.
and it brought up also question as to the
right of the Bellaire central body to recog-
nize credentials from the b., B. & NJ. F.
union.
A Bellaire representative stated that they
had been organized as a local of the
Amalgamated Association of Street Rail-
way Employees of America.
Representatives of the Wheeling union
disputed the truth of this statement, as
not received a charter. and until it did,
its credentials should not be accepted in a
central body
This brought Thomas V. Lewis to his
feet with a defense of the course of the
Bellaire body, which was equally as Wig
orous as the preceding speeches. He as
serted that the people on the other side of
the river have rights which are bound to
be respected. He claimed that the Bell
aire body had a clearly defined policy Of
assistance for the Wheeling strikers He
had never heard of any official of the O.
V. T. & L. A. attempting to get the new
mon off the cars, and he submitted that
that would be the proper and most effect
i've course 10 pursuS
Charles James, of Martins Ferry, called
attention TO the fact that on 1.-THE other
side they have succeeded in getting a con-
ference of employers and employees, some
thing which had not been accomplished in
| Wheeling. The object of the resolution
| adopted by the Bellaire body was primarily
TO get conference and he regarded it
as step in the right direction. Person
ally, he was always willing to entrust
suth matters to capable and honest men.
The Amalagamation followed such a
course, always entrusting wage matters
TO committee of nine men.
| In replying, Mr.. Tighe stated that the
/ Amalgamation always selected men who