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Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1909-01-14
WHAT EAERa RIDGES.

TpI swings the axe. and forests bsrM7
The seeds break out In radiant
bloom,
,Rich harvest smile behind the plough,
And cities cluster round the loom;
Where towering domes; and tapefing
spires ,s
Adorn the vale and CROWN the lin,
Stout labor lights itasbeacon fires;
And piumes with smoke the forge
and, mill.
The monarch oak. the woodlands
pride,
Whose trunk is scanned with lissst-
ming scars;
Toll launches on the restless tide.
And there unrollsF tfes flag of stasss;
The engine with it's lungs of fame
And ribs~of brass1and Joints of steel
From I,abor's plastic fingers came,
With sobbing paIEe and whirffhg
wheel.
l'TisF Labor works the magic PRESS
And turns the crank in hives of 4aiR
And beckons angels down to bless
Industrious hands ON sea and soias
Here sun-browneE Toll, with shining
spade,
Links lake to- Bake with silver Ties
Strung thick with palaces of trade,
And temples towering to the Skies
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1909-01-14
LABOR BRIEFS.

In Austria and FRANCE the provision
Of rescue apparatus, in Infnes is made
compulsory m Germany it is option
al, but has been voluntarily adopted
Farm Iaborers Of the south. paid by
the month or year and fed ami; sup
ported by the landowner, receive 35
to 40 cents. a day during working sea-
son.
Between 10000 and $4,000 workmen
yearly are killed in accidents in this
country. according TO report on this
subject by the bureau Of labor at
Washington.
The last available statistics show
that In one year In Germany the sum
Of about $30,000O00 was paid to inva-
lid workmen to the number Of 81. 600
In the form Of old age pensions.
Through the months Of the trolley
strike In Chester, Pa, 1t cost the Ches-
ter Trolley company about 500, 900
to run its cars while boycott was
being maintained By the citizens. II
cost the strikers about $4,000 In
wages.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1909-01-14
Tlhnants-Answ

SEVEN YEARS of famine $50 far as real legislative
progress concerned) plenty (so far as
presidential invective concerned have eliminated in
the hrst personal attack made by president upon
a United States senator The unusual spectacle is email
ed Ry the Inability of the senator answer and the in
ability of the president answer charges made against
him
With president who signed bill making possible the
Hartman railroad steal attacking Senator who is using
gus public Office for private gain wthe president be.
ing accused of misusing government funds by another
senator who has been in pay aaw breaking
snst that history is after all repeating itself
:and thathe lightning which struck in Rome nineteen
lures ago may not be diverted by husng american
lightning rod agent y
l1Hman in his weak answer hoists himself on his own
ptchfork he shows that he has used his position to make
PROFIT for himself Foraker has also been abundantly
proven to have made personal PROFIT out of his
s6n1p roosevelt made possible PROFIT by the Alton
deal and again by permitting the Steel Trust to violate
The law and take over the Tennessee Coal and Iron De-
pew has been VIGOROUSLY the PROFIT seeker for the
railroads and Platt has only sought make his senator
ship PROFITABLE for the express companies by
preventing the government postal doing bet
ter hauling for less money.
III becomes any to adopt "hoer than thou attitude
when they are all tarred with the of PROFIT AboI
lshing Tlman will not abolish the evil and the only way
is to abolish private PROFIT the government was SELF
ing lands to private individuals Timan would not be
femptedTto violate law and morals to get at a PROFIT
he government owned the railroads, Hartman would
not have tempted Roosevelt sign the bill which per-
mted him to Illegally get the millions from the people
II the government owned the oil business there would be
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1909-01-14
EDITORIAL PAGE.
The New Assembly

HINDER BRIGHT AUSPICES the Ohio Valley Trades
and Labor Assembly starts year The good
aes Of the officers only equa1led by those OF
the retiring officials The Trades Assembly has been
fortunate any other organization ever existing in
wheeling in its choice officers it's record twenty
years is clean one.
zine new year promises to keep up the good record and
mpraye upon it. Changing conditions bring changes
in taacs bit good dsincerity enable men to
adapt themselves and there is shortage material in
4he Assembly
Ine need is for the members to do their part. Let
every detegae to the Trades Assembly make tia point
attend every session that he possibly and take
i've interest IN the work No man has right to think
that he is useless for his may deciding one on an
important question: and his presence alone he
speaks word may inspire others to renewed and
activity.
NO man can; attend asession Of central labor body
without being benefited. N
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1909-01-14
4 SONG OF TINE FACTORY.

The trees; were white with blossoms,
the meadows were broad and fair,
And the care free birds made music
for the childrsn that idled there
But a man had need of the meadows.
His walls and chimneys SRrang
From among the swaying branches
where the thrush and robin sang.
And the man had need of the children
He gathered them in like sheep
And set them to work to earn bis
bread for children are many and
cheap. y
They crouch all day by the spindles,
wizened and wan and old.
They have given their youth to a mas
ter who has mtnted it into gold.
No longer, they idly listen to a war
b1eF's futile song f
No longer their idle laughter rings
out the whole day long,
No longer they roam the meadows
like idle gypsy bands, Il
For the world is growing richer BY
the work OF their puny hands,
And the man who found them tdling
among the, feathery blooms
And brought them to watch their lives
- away beside his Gathering looms
He talks Of the goodly riches that his
enterprise has won
With the toll of the sad faced chiIdre en-
and boasts of the thing he's done
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1909-01-14
a TABLE

| And bo>it came to pass that the
| drones owned all the fields and TOW.
| ers and had fire, wire screens placed
over them with learge easily Rad
signs, prominently displayed. warn
ing the busy bees to keep OF the
| flowers under penalty of the law.
1EOthers+ read: mo trespassing allow
ed; this is private property; beware
Of the dogs, etc In addition the
drones hired giant hornets, with long.
sharp stingers, and fed them well to
/ see that the laws were enforced.
+ As result the busy bees were. idle.
dlscontented, unhappy and hAngry. Sc
they swarmed into the public squares
and passed resolutions and a5pointe
committees to call on the drones ana
demand that the signs be removed.
and that they be allowed to- build
hives on the vacant fields and gath.
er honey from the unused flowers.
The 'dr51ies preached to them and
told them the re ason they were Door
was because they we're too fond of the
Juice Of the hop fIoWer, and that 800
many baby bees Were born every
year, which caused oHer-populati1n
and. congestion; and that they ned,
ed Higher tariff to- Keep out forefgn
paAper honey which caused over-pro-
ductlon so that the dxe#es. try as
they would, could nos get lid of it;
and that they must be patient and
give them time to eat it up. then,
they would take the screens on the
flowers and allow them to go to work
again In the. m santine they should
be optimistic, and smile and be hAppy,
and love one another. and be hottest,
and respect privaae property espec-
tally private property in fields and
flowers; which is tie very foundation
of society, and they should never for-r
get that there had always been poor
bees as long as anyone could ren1em-
Der; it was law OF naturePand no
one couEd change insectgIogicaI ma
ture -
After listening to this speech the
busy bees went down in 4 brown
study and. Thought ana Thought until
their heads ached. They they stop
ped thinking
Dan Cayanagh.i "PalBIJc."
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1909-01-14
LABOR AND POLITICS.
Election Aftermath Causing Unions
somes Annoyance.

Somes Annoyance
Echoes from the recent campaign in
dictate that those who predicted thai
political action would cause trouble il
the trades unions can point to certain
localities and say, II told you So" But
as has usually been the case in the la
Dor movement in this, country, writes
Joseph R. Buchanan in the New York
Journal, the troubles are generally
over officeholding, the personal ambi-
tons OF members of the unions and
the reluctance of labor niWl to support
candidates who Are selected from their
own ranks.
One of the peculiaritieS of the labor
man which political leaders and the
public generally cannot understand is
his failure to consistently assist in the
election of his fellows when they are
nominated for public Office. In fact,
this is popularity which the labor
man himself has never been able to
satisfactorily explain.
The trades assembly of Minneapolis
has appoined committee to inyesti-
gate the actions of certain members of
unions in. the recent campaign in bolt
ing the local labor ticket 1t is charged
that many members of the Minneapolis
unions were ''perniciousIy active in
opposing the labor political program
mapped ont by. the State Federation of
Labor.
1t is reported that at the coming con-.
ventfon of the United Mine Workers
the4eOnstitutien. VIII be so amended as
to prohibit any officer Of the organtza
ton from taking an active, part In poll
tics. Two. of the prominent members
Of the Mine Workers are now mem
bers of the house OF representative
and IN several localities, other leaders
In the URion are locally active i'm poll
tics
Two weeks ago the Denver trades
assembly forced the resignation pf its.
president and several other prominent
delegates because they held political
positions, elective or, aupointive- An.
effort is being made to secure a major
ity Of the assembly In favor of striking
the clause from the constitution under
which the dispositions referred to- were
enforced, and there is a lively contest
On between the two elements tip the
r.s.
It appears that there is still lacking
among trades uuionistss a proper I'M
OF the politicaFneeds and
OPPORTUNITIES OF labor and Of the Best
methods Of procedure. The. cases cited
ana many similar cases thrpughou* the
country strengthen this opinib2sl
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1909-01-14
RY Harriet Monroe,

BY Harriet monroe,
In the November Union Labor Advo-
cate.
dedicated to the Women's Trade
Union League of Chfcago)
Sisters of the whirling wheel
Are we all day:
Builders of house Of steel
On Times highway.
Giving bravely, hour by hour,
.All We have Of youth and power.
4 OR. lords otfhe house we rear,
Hear us. hear!
Green are the fields in May-time,
yrrant us our love-times play-time,
.ShOrt is the day and dear.
ringers fly and engines boom
The livelong day,
Through far fields when roses Dloon
The sole winds play.
-vsst the work issound and true
ne The tower We build for you!
oh lords Of the house we rear
Hear us, hear 49,,
w r.sss are the fields, in May-un1e.
! .w =, AMI e onr leveSime. playtime.
ssh nor, Is the day and dear.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1909-01-14
Child Labor

MANY ARGUMENTS are advanced against prohibiting
child labor but the real the proposition to
legislation was unintenticnay shown by ardent
cautious other day when in reply to claim
that eighteen years should be the age limit cried We'll
you wouldn't get them to work for ninety cents day!
1t not that the orphaned brothers and sisters will not
be cared for it is not that the poor widowed mother needs
to be protected it is not that the invalid father will
be tendery nurtured, it is not that the child will run
dleness disso1ute upon the that older boys
can not be brought to work for ninety cents day.
That is the for child labor and that is why child
labor should be abolished Glass factories will sus
pend It may become bit more costly to manufacture
glass and it may diminish the profits But surely even in
the event that we would have to for glass
ware we have right shave our expenses at the ex
pense Of growing children. %%s
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1909-01-14
Force WorketM tp,IImnlre.

The government is pressing IN thu
Austrian reichsrathla bill dealing with
social insurance.
It extends the present provisions for
compulsory insurance against Illness
to all workmen and. servants, fneand-
ing agricultural laboreRs. Insurance
against old age'is. also made obligatory
in the case of an workmen employed
I'm Industrial concerns, agricultural Ia
b0rers, servants and employers whose
annual income Dies not exceed $500
The number Of persons affected Is TO-
100000.
The state viii make an annual grant
Of $416500 toward the costs OF admin
istering the funds and after the fifth
year will piaee SIS for each contrib.
tutor; -
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1909-01-14
TO. COMBINE SAILORS
Seasusn's Onion Plan az Ghszt IAsssIii~-
rational Organisation.


rational Organization.
Ths- Sea1nen-s Union of America, in
annual convention at New Orleans,
has laid plans for a world wide move
ment in it's particular heEtE Of indus
try. A resolution was adopted in
structng the secretary to WIdte' to- all
the seamen's unions Of the world, CALI
ing them to- general conference at
the. earliest date practical. At this
conference it is proposed to, perfect an
organization which will be, thoroughly
international in character and SCOPE.
Secretary F'ragter viii at once get into
communication with the seamen's s.
unions Of England. Noryray, Sweden,
Denmark, France. Germany, Spain.
Austria and Australia, and every
effort VIII be made to hold, the. confer
enee. at an early date.
IT is generally underst9odl that TING
International Federatioa9 Of Snipown-
ers formed not long ago, is taking
into, membership the shipownersi OF
every country in Europe as well as:
those of America 1t lis thought that
this, fact inspired the action Of the.
seamen's convention looking. toward a
combination of all the seamen cf' the.
world. +t,
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1909-01-14
National Union Of chaufseurs.

Efforts win be made at the automo-
bile show scheduled for Chicago on
Feb. to IL to organize national nm
ion Of chauneurs. The proposition was
discussed by the Professional Chauf-
feurs' association Of Louisville, KY,
prior to the last automobile show IN
Chicago, and heIquestion has come up
Tor discussion among the different as
sociations Of MOTOR drivers since that
time. a convention win be held on
Feb. II to discuss the question more
Thoroughly.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1909-01-14
The Marcbers.

Hark to the sound of marching Of wosk-
ers!
Onward they come with victorious nAight
Naught can Withstand them,
Naught can disband them,
For theirs Is the future, for theirs ia
the right. "
Look to the waving thousands Of banners
Ringing their message far out IN the
night
Labor comes onward,
Faces the daWnward,
For theirs Is the future, for theirs "a
the right
Hark to the song that's sung. By the work
ers,
Chanting a strain fdl OF hope ana Of
light
Our cause IS glorious,
Our host victorious.
For ours s the future and ours IL the
Charities and Commons.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1909-01-14

Ours the future is-we face \.
The whole worlds needs,
In our hearts the coming race
For life's joy pleads.
AS you make us-slaves or free
So the men unborn shall be-,
Oh, lords of the house we rear,
Hear us. hear!,
Green are the fields In May-time,
Grant us our love-time, play-time.
Short Is the day and dear.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1909-01-14
DENNIS 3. LAvEY DEAD.

Dennis B. Lavey, known as Denny
to his countless friends, died, Mon,
day. at his home in the Second ward,
after an illness of more than year.
Mr.. Lavey was MIL man. employed
at the Whitaker, and his genial, per.
sonality made him a general fayorite
and his death Is universally regretted
He was q member Of the water board
one term and served an unexpired
term IN council. He was unmarried
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1909-01-14
Office Il Secretary srickIayers' q
.stonemasons' international Union,
Local No. 9 Of Ohio.
Bellaire, O., Jan. s, 'os.

- Bellairey O., Jan. s, 'os.
Majority Co.: n
Dear sirs-Enclosed please find SIC
stock subscription, from 3. & M. !. U.
No. 9, Of BelIiare. Wishing you a
happy and prosperous New Year, !.
Respectfully yours,
f. Richard Williams,
z a04 Virginia St.
The above letter is one Of the many
that start us off in the new year with
new hope and eheerfuIness. The Ma
iorityshas already almost reached the
average term of life Of a Labor paper
two years-and in It's existence has
SAmpiy disproyed the general rule :
failure.
Every month has been for the Ma
jority better month than the one
preceding. Right through the hard
times the Subscription list has beer
.growing-it has never gone back
ward.
WHAT YOU CAN DO.
You have done this; you friends o
the paper But you and the aape
nave not yet touched the hem of tn,
garment of possibility. You who tax
the Majority ought to see that you
neighbor and shopmate take it. Som
of the staunehest friends of the Ma
Iority were the reluctant converts Q
shopmate.
And the advertisinq--there lisa wa
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1909-01-14

Fred Golner. the well known opera
tive potter at the Riverside, requests
us to ask the readers Of the Majority
If they know the party who never
fails to send him every week, a postal
card bearing the inscription Of an old
maid running after bachlor. Does
anyone known e
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1909-01-14
R.kha Ene Miner !

Public baths for miners and lockers
foE their working and street clothes,
so that they may cleanse themselves
after their days toll and retaEn to
their homes looking like Office EN-
ployees- If they are SO minded, Is an
ideal to be established at the new
works 1of the Pittsburg- Buffalo COM
pany at Mariana, near Moaongaheia
Cit, PA.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1909-01-14

none to tempt Foraker sell his special laws
IS all well and good TORY strengthen to re-
sst temptation but the surer way is to remove the temp
tation. 4....
But The speedy method Of aboshing crookedness Yin
the United senate would be to abolish the United
States senate.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1909-01-14
REPORT OF MUSICIANS UNION

The musicians report to the A. F
of L. is as follows: Charter issued
so; surrendered. 10. Marked improve
ment in conditions Of members in the
past ten years.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1909-01-14
THEMAJOR|TY'S MARCH

you can help that doesn't cost 4 cent,
and very little effort. AS you know
some Of the very largest advertisers
cannot get in the Majority because
they are not friendly to Labor. Some
we have discontinued because of this.
Others do not care for Labor trade.
and while they take large spaces in
every other kind Of a publication, car
not be induced to patronizel a paper
which speaks for the workingman-
even though some Of this kind of mer.
chants live almost entirely off the
working people.
When you go to make your pur-
chases look through the advertising
columns Of the Majority, and IT you
see the announcement Of a merchant
wok sells what you want, call and see
if you Cannot do as we'll or better
than at the store of some other mer-
chant who has not shown enough de-
sire for your patronage as to adver-
tise for it. If you wantsunion labeled
goods, you are more apt to find them
in the establishment of firm ad-
vertising in the Labor paper than in
any other.
There were two purchases Of stock
last week.. The after-christmas dull
season reigning. The list stands as
follows: ~
Previously acknowledged. :. "a 2.0t
BeIIaire B.N& NJ. !. U. No. g.. to.0o
F.. A.. Habig. ...S..... ....+, 5.0t
Totat-,u> date. .$4,eea.ol
Amount feeded- ss,sOo.o'
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1909-01-14

Big Chief. AZ, Fourteenth street,
with every purchase ticket entities
holder 70 one chance on fine pipe,
starting Saturday, January 10th.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1909-01-14

COULD IT BE ARRANGED a. la legislature ITO have
GompeFsv Mitchell and Morrison paired with Rookie
teller Morgan ard Hartman day the roll is csed
for all to begin serving sentences?
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1909-01-14

IF CONGRESS AND THE PRESIDENT would real1s Be.
gin to fight the window glass business would boom
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1909-01-14

WITHOUT GLoATING the Majority reprints in an.
other column information of Judge Washington who
was removed from the Supreme bench because or unfit
ness When Judges favoritism for corporation be
comes pronounced thar this action taken he nast be
Unfit indeed
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1909-01-14

"A BETTER BARGAIN than most crooked Labor leaders
drive is that secured by BuIo Yaqu chief who
dered his tribe to the Mexican government I'M considers
ton that he be made officer IN the Mexican army and
provided with body guard sfxty-fve men Pbwderly
hasn't one man left to call him cElef ..sy4.-
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1909-01-14
The Musicians Decision

TO MUSICIANS who work for afyIng and try 10 sup
port themselves and families by their art will not be
peased with the decision Of Attorney General Bonaparte
permitting the Marine Band to compete with private bands
IN contracting to furnish music The Marine Band elist
ed Marines fed clothed and paid as Marines are NOT
marines, according the luminous legal descenden
Napceon. The law says Marine bands shall take
contracts to furnish music for private parties but Bona
parte has decided that they may
You see It was workfngmen who complained and the
law is interpreted to the advantage of the other side
people who hire band Of bachelor soldiers cheaper
than band OF married civilians
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1909-01-14
The WORKING !eIRL,s SONG.

the adversne-there way Still to be raised,
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-08-14
NOTICE

Bids VIII be received until August
10th at ; p M. for furnishing 500
tons First Quality Timothy Hay, and
10000 lbs. First Quality Oats, to be
delivered at regular intervals during
period of one year from date. bids
VIII be acceptable also on quantities
less than as above stated. but anv
award In such case will be subject TO
delivery being made at dates desIc.
mated by the undersigned, In order 10
regulate shipment Of material. state
prices (, o. b. cars. Salt Lake CITY.
The right Is reserved to reject any
or all bids. P. j. Moran. Fox 7S3. salt
Lake City, Utah.
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-08-14
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS

Bids for furnishing the material and
erecting four bent pile bridge. viii
be received at the office of the Board o.
County Commissioners. until p. m.
OF August 18th. 1909. Plans and sneci.
hcations at the office OF tho County
Surveyor.
BY order OF the Board OF County
Commissioners.
SAMUEL C. DYE. Clerk
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-08-14
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Feet

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