Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-09-15


and aid of the whole American labor
movement-which the other could no.
ever have.
TO SALOONKEEPERS.
I am afraid that some sal0onteepe s
are behind this move I am afrai J
that some of them do not waht any
kind of an organization of thEir en-
ployes. Some of them have joined
forces with some bartenders 9ho are
too stingy to pay dues and haze given
birth to this new non-union union.
The excuse that there is sonh objec
tion to the old bartenders' MON Is
childish and ridiculous. If there is
something wrong with your union,
change it. You have the power of Leg
isiation by the rank and file. and fyoi
can put your own ideas intb force
when you get votes enough from you"
fellow members, AND YOU. KNOW
THAT IF YOU ARE RIGHT YOU
WILL GET THE VOTES. I am proud
of the fact that belong to the Inter !.
national Typographical Union Yet |
am an 'insurgent.' If ! disagrte with
the MANAGEMENT of my union, 7 do not
go out and try to start another union-
I have too much sense for that-but l
go among my fellow members and try
to convince them that 1 am right.
know that if am right can convince
them, eventually, and that If con-
vince them their votes will folloF.
t.The good of the printers, the gooo
of all wageworkers, the good of myself
as a wage worker, demands that !
stay with federation instead OF going
with disintegration. Your own goo
here in Wheeling. of all you men OF
all crafts, demands that you stay with
federation and stamp ott a movement
that will undermine " III. You may
have trouble doing this, trouble nat
NAV break some friendships, but on
the other hand it will five you an OPP
portunity to broaden THE other fellow
idea of what solidarity means.
WANT SOLIDARITY.
"And that is what We need-SOLI-
DARITY. We have fl ught for years
and years to get Solidarity. Now tina!
we are getting it we don't want to
start over again. FOR GODS SAKE
DON'T MAKE US START OVER
AGAIN! The misery, the poverty, the
struggles, the loss of life, even, nave
been enough. Don't throw away that
which the old fighters in the cause OF
unionism have handed down to you,
with practically no cost to yourselves
"And God be praised, the trend OF
unionism today is to federation. With
in the past year more than three hun
dred thousand new brothers have beer
banded with the millions in the Ameri
can Federation of Labor. At last the
metal miners of the west, after Q
dualism fight that lasted through year:
and reached the point af physical yio-
|lence-at last they has come in, an:
the western Federation of Miners, tina
grand, militant body of wage workers
are enlisted under the banner of tn
Old Federation. Why did they COM
lin? Because they want to beneh
their members, the mtal miners. So
Ito help their members, they have sun.
differences of opinion in order to bene
fit ali. So they have all come into tn
American Federation of Labor. And
| to help yourselves, you, too, must com,
into the American Federation of La
Dor.
NOT WITH SALOONKEEPERS.
IT want to say to you saloonkeeper
that outside of the industrial side o
/ the question, we have nothing in com
| mon with you. We are interested, a
| long as you. are in that business. Il
seeing that you treat your empIoye
humanely. For we are interested i
all employees. and we must unite al
employees. That sentiment have hal
the pleasure of expressing both in bar
rooms and pulpits. and reiterate |
lhere-sA HOUSE DIVIDED AGAINST
ITSELF CANNOT STAND
| ..The older workers here, who's
memories can compass some past de
cades, can realize that all our progres
i IN the general uplift has been becaus
Of federation. And they can realiz
lthe progress that has been made. An,
they remember the long hours tina
vert put in, the foilsome work it was
10 bring about the conditions that tn
waee workers now enjoy It IS b
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