The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1908-06-25

didates for the legislature and will
enter the fight in earnest. The
following is the declaration of
principles and platform adopted
by TIE convention in Wheeling:-
RESOLVED, That we, the United
LaLo: party of Ohio Countys State
Of West Virginia, in convention
assembled, record our protest
against the Indifference and utter
disregard of the Republican and
Demooraticic parties to enact re-
medal legislation to improve the
condition of organized labor.
Though evasively pretending with
hattcring promises to relieve the
political grievances of the working
men, still those>earnest pledges are
continually broken with all the
brazcnness characteristic of un-
scrupulous politicians, proving
them baseless and insincere to en-
snare and deceive workingmen for
their votes.
We denounce and enter our
solemn protest against those two
parties of corruption and fraud,
who are controlled by the state
machine and county rings, who
select the candidates unobstructed,
pack them into conventions with
the nomination tags of the bosses,
primary convention corrupters,
and ballot box suffers on their
backs; force them on the unthink-
ing credulous wage earners; men
who are obnoxious to their politi
cal interest and lettering obstacle
in their way in>getting adequate or
just laws in their behalf.
An example of this nefarious
and disgusting system has been
worked to perfection through the
state rings and factions fighting
with bull dog ferocity to give the
innocent wage earners candidates
TOR Governor supported by man.
killing and inhuman coal opera
tors and railroads The power of
the bosses and rings gives US none
out corporation lawyers as candi-
dates for Congress. Intelligent
business men, farmers or working
men need not apply. None but law,
yers can be elected to that office.
Candidates for the State Senate
and Legislature are selected as
hlreIlngs of United States Senators.
Candidates given us by those cor
rupt political dictators are not the
choice of the workingmen, and we
nave been meekly voting for them,
or not vote at all.
Those two parties have sanction
ed the evil Of convict made goods
10 he sold in the open market in
competition with the product of
Tree 'abor. They have sanctioned
The enslavement of citizens as
poems or slaves; the organization
"i coal police and detectives agen-
G."~. oomposed of thugs and bull
HES, TO brow beat anh intimate
s+Lr"able citizens from organizing
'Ae9' unions who work in the
"..e~ for Il livelihood. They have
-.. I'd laws giving the State the
s--t to employers to organize for
H,o,-al protection, while those en-
't"'s deny the same right to
N}ngmen. They have know
-" "f and tolerate the truck
.s".'m carried on by unscrupulous
..a coal operators who rob theiI
hy extortionate prices fol
1aries Of life and contribute
ct it to keep political party
urels and theving politicians
Ntv-r.
denounce those parties il
utter neglect and failure il
- workingmen the protection
" >tate to organize labor unions
md independent from the
'--ence or. obstruction o:
II and recognizing this to bt
..s Ia The history of our State
ATTY of citizenship should as
self in the heart of every true
pathizing friend of labol
1 with all the power and in
'e st his command until thi:
Sslve law is wiped out ant
u equaA justice to all men an(
privileges to none adopted
stead.
'fklngmen have repeated,
ted both the Democratic ant
,pllcan legiSlationS to enact al
nnur worE6av nc hoe hoo,