Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-08-05
BELMONT CENTRAL BODY
ENDORSES STRIKERS.
AT THEIR REGULAR MEETING IN
BRIDGEPORT YESTERDAY
AFTERNOON.
MEETING WAS WELL ATTENDED
And All the Local. Represented Are
in Full Accord with the strike-A
Number of Speeches Were Made.
summary of the Proceedings.

The Belmont Central Trades and La
Dor Union held their regular meeting
yesterday at bridgeport, which was
open TO the public. and was one of the
best meetings ever held by the union,
and probably had the largest attend
ance that ever assembled at meeting
of the Central Union. Almost all the
locals were represented. and large
number OF visitors were present.
The meeting opened with President
Parsons in the chair and all the other
officers present. After the regular rout-
inc OF business of which none was i'm
pertant, the committee on the Labor
Day picnic reported, which was very
satisfactory. The ground committee re-
ported that the grounds were complet-
ed. and from now on until Labor Day
will be rented out to parties who wish
to give pienics or dances. until Labor
Day. II. j. Cecil is chairman OF tho
ground committee. The amusement
committee reported that they had Sc
cured number of up-to-date amuse-
ments, including merry o-round, sew
eral side shows, and some specials that
will be given out later. II the track
can be gotten into proper condition the
Independent Hose company will run
against their record. which will prove
quite an attraction. The union Is issu-
ing combination tickets with prizes.
and all OF the members were given a
number to SELL The picnic promises to
ever given by this union, and II all tho
locals turn out as they have promised,
there will be over thousand men in
line in the parade. All the locals are
enthusiastic over the progress made so
far.
All the picnic committees we're con-
tinued with power to act. The speakers
for the day have not yet been secured.
3, After the above report President Par
| sons announced that the meeting was
| open to anyone who wished to speak,
In speaking OF the present labor trouble
he alluded to them as only a summer
vacation. He also spoke as to the way
the strike should be conducted, and that
law and order should -sways prevail.
! At the conclusion of his remarks he
introduced Hon. Joseph s. Cochran, Of
| Martins Ferry. Mr. Cochran said in part
that he was present to express his sa,
lient views on the labor troubles OF the
| Day, and that II he said anything that
| he alone should be held responsible.
He said he was born and raised on thu
hills just west of Bridgeport, and now
| could look down on three generations,
and compared the present situation with
that OF forty years ago. He Cited tho
slavery of the South. and graphically
described the selling of slaves at the
north Market House In Wheeling, which
he witnessed when only ten years OF
| age and how 1t impressed him as to
| labor that is trodden down; also how
the slaves decreased the white mans
wages of the north. The Judge then
| quoted much from Lincoln, and used his
| phrase that man could not be half
slave and half free"
He said that he was now in the sun
set OF his life, and was now witness
ing slavery, equal to what caused the
war of 1860. He took up the economic
system Of our country, and said it
must be changed before We could have
relief. Schwab, he stated, was not
| worth one million dollars year to
pose as a tyrannical power, and that
no man, like Carnegie, should be al
| lowed by law, to amass fortune of
| libraries from the money of the wage
Garner. The laboring man wants
| library at his home. where it will do
| him good. The trust was severely
scored for not allowing the employees
| the privilege of organizing, when all
| the trusts were standing hand in hand.
No man can earn one hundred million
dollars in a year and make it honestly
He discussed the tariff, which he be-
lieyed in, but that its protection should
not go into the pockets OF the few
He paid a high tribute to the Republic
can party, but advised the men to use
their ballot to secure reform, and to
educate the men to their needs, and
in closing paid high tribute to the
union, and hoped they would win. and
likened Morgan unto Nero.
The address was received with much
applause.
President Parsons then introduced
Henry Gauding, the we'll known staff
correspondent of the "Commoner and
Glass Worker" Mr. Gauding said the
present strike was a life and death
struggle for principle. which every
true American should uphold. When
he stated that the Flints, Green and
Window Glass house people were in
full sympathy with the stgikers, it was
met with much applause. He followed
with tho hona that the Amalgamation