Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-05-19
Scott and Labor
Hypocrisy of His Claims of Friend
ship for Toilers
Exposed.
REFUSED ASSENBLY'S
ONE REQUEST

N. B. Scott is claiming to; be q
friend of the poor, downtrodden lab
oring man.
He is also candidate for re-elec-
ton to the United States Senate.
The connection is obvious.
Promises are the order before cleo
ton; after election there is oppor-
tunity for performance.
N. B. Scott is no new and untried
timber. He has been in the United
States Senate twelve years. His de-
PENDANT newspaper trust explains that
his connections in that body, his
nearness to the White House, his
committee assistants, etc., give him
unusual power to serve the people
who elected him. #
Therefore he has had time enough
and opportunity enough to show his
friendship fer Labor.
The Majority in it's last issue pre-
scented Scott's record as compiled by
the American Federation Of Labor,
showing that he had, during all the
twelve years, used this power (Which
the newspaper trust says is excep-
tional) always against Labor meas
ures and against the interests of the
men who toll that others might en-
joy.
Turns Down Assembly.
All his has to do with his attitude
toward Labor in general.
TO be specific: N. B. Scott ignored
the request of the Ohio Valley Trades
and Labor Assembly in the matter Of
appointing United States District
Attorney. He treated organized La
Dor as unworthy of consideration; as
unworthy of even keeping faith with.
He did not appoint Charles A. Good
win to that position, though the As
sembly made this as It's one request
Of the Senator.
The Story Behind It.
Three years ago the Ohio Valley
Trades and Labor Assembly, true to
its ideal Of Labor solidarity, took up
the battle of the Electrical Linemen,
against whom the Bell and, National
telephone companies, led by that self
sacrificing friend of humanity, John
A. Howard, were waging war of ex-
termination. When the Assembly
offered it's assistance to the Linemen's
Union, the National Telephone COM
pany brought injunction proceedings
against the three executive officers Of
the Assembly, H. P. Corcoran, H. B.
Vessel and J. T. HecRer, and the ed
itor of the official organ, The Major
ity, W. B. Hilton.
The case was brought before
Judge Dayton, at Wheeling. The As
sembly, realizing the seriousness of
the situation, understanding what a
terrific blow such decision would be
to Labor, decided that it was abso-
lutely necessary, in pure self defense,
to fight the case to the last ditch.
The battle was begun by securing
Attorney Charles A. Goodwin, of Nor
gantown. Judge Dayton, however, de-
spite mastery presentation OF La
boris legal rights that brought Mr..
Goodwin praise from all over the
country, decided in favor of the com
pany and against organized Labor,
and refused to dissolve the injunc-
ton. On the advice of Mr.. Good
win, the Assembly appealed the case
to the United States Circuit Court of
Appeals, sitting at Richmond, Va,
and in this higher court the decision
of Judge Dayton was reversed. Mr..
Goodwin's contentious were sustain
ed, and Labor's rights were estab-
lished to declare unfair company
with whom it was in controversy, to
use the boycott of pursu4sion in La
Dor disputes, and to maintain a free
press.
1t was a great fight and a mo-
mentous victory, though it cost the
Trades Assembly upwards OF $4,000,
emptying it's treasury and compelling
the central body to borrow from the
AFFILIATED locals.
This great expense was put upon
Labor of this vicinity by the greedy
policy Of John A. Howard and kind
red spirits, and the object Of It all
was to destroy the power Of organ
lied Labor, to destroy It utterly.
Most naturally, organized Labor
of this section looked with gratitude
mon the man who. at considerable
personal sacrifice financially, had
taken mn the case and thwarted this
piratical purpose; so when the As
sembly learned that an effort was
being made to induce Mr.. Goodwin to
become a candidate for the position
of United States District Attorney
for the Northern District on West
xy;r.;nia tha Assembly Immediately