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Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-07-14
SOCIETY SHOULD PAY
FOR WORKERS HURTS
Labor Man at Stony Broow Dis.
cusses Compensation Sher-
man Tells Of Lawsuits.

Stony Brook, L. LIN an address
which closely held the attention Of the
Stony Brook assembly yesterday,
Charles J. Donahue, president of the
claimed: i
''It is a. sad commentary on our
American civilization that America and
Russia are Tie only countries where
workingnem have ca bear the brunt OF
the responsibility of injuries to work
ingmen.
sThe facts are, as we well know,
that in case of death OF INJURY the
wife or daughters may have to take
up the burden of wage earning. The
men who do the work ought to have
at least the reliance of knowing that
in the case of death or disablemenl
their families would be saved from
poverty and the poorhouse.
1.-THE employer, when his casts in
crease in any direction, takes 1T out
of the consumer. The consumer has to
pay for everything anyway, and why
shouldn't he pay for the injury to
workingmen who are producing the
things he is consuming?"
'sWill you explain your views on
that little more elearly?" asked Pro
fessor jerks, chairman Of the assem-
bly,. do you mean that society al
large or the people are responsible for
the injuries to workingmen?"
81 mean," said Donahue, that the
demands of the people or the produc-
lions of workingmen, wilethere they be
produced by dangerous means or not,
form the underlying cause for the en-
ployment of workingmen supplying
these products.
Now the employer can compel the
consumer to pay for everything but
the mems lives, but lays the burden
of this cost upon the men themselves
and upon their homes and families. ]
do not believe that a hat or coat
or the wear and tear of machinery and
the other expenditures upon property,
which are cheerfully paid by the em-
ployer through the consumer, are OF
more value than the lives 81 the men.
NN
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-07-14
MORE TROLLEYMEN
GET WAGE INCREASE

White Plains, N. Y.-Supreme Cours
Justice Martin J. Keogh, signed at MS
chambers in New Rochelle today the
order raising the wages of the 300 en-
Moves of the YonkerS street railroad
lines. who were ON a strike recently.
The increase is cents an hour. JUS
tice Keogh also gives the 200 motor
men and conductors of the Westchest-
err Electric Railroad Company SINH
lar increase, although they had moi
applied for 1t.
In conjunction. with this. order II
was announced that Receiver Whit
ridge of the Union Railway Company
gave substantial increase to all tine
mem on the Huckleberry system
At the hearing before Justice keogn
today, Judge John j. Crennan, OF New
Rochelle, appeared for the trolley EN-
ployes and urged the signing OF tns
! order, and also had the stipulatlon IN
serted that the increase go into enec'
at midnight Saturday
It is estimated that the increase Of
wages in Westchester country and the
Bronx will aggregate about $175OO0
year. The men in Westchester galr
$40 900 on their payroll.
Justice Keogh's decision in the case
Of theo Westchester railroad followed
the appearance in court of Receiver !
Addison Young, who feared his mer
, would strike If they didn't get ths
same increase as the Yonkers men.
This shows the results of organiza.
ZION. The men are strongly organized
on all Of these lines, fully so per cent
Of them belonging to the Amalgamatec
Association of Street Railway EN-
ployes. Immediately after the Yonker'
strike broke out two executive officers
fitzgerald and Pratt, were on TIM
scene aiding the u:en with their ad'
vice.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-07-14
Counclmen Do Corporations Bidding and Ignore Labor
News From
Tin Mills

of so mills for both plants and Is out
Of 7S tin pots for the week. They
have 81 men in the tin house that has
been shipped here fresh from across
the water, probably from Poland, who
they are trying to teach the trade.
Fifty cents per turn is large for the
majority that are now on the inside.
OF course some few are getting royalty
ON their work, but that does not worry
us at all. The Fourth Of July Booster
celebration in New Castle was the
greatest fake that was ever placed be-
fore the, public. They did not have
man In line that was in any way
connected with Labor Unions. They
had few hunkeys, that probably be-
long to the black-hand or some other
foreign society-but to have taken the
business mems exchange floats our and
a troop of Pennsylvania National
Guards, there would have been noth-
ing left but the New Castle police. AMI
business men who put hundreds CT
dollars into the AFFAIR in order to boost
an open-shop town. Feel like Jim
Jenries. that you give me back my
past years and I can do business.
Elwood, Ind.-Everything looks good
for the strikers here. The weather is
still in our favor and no doubt will be
for some time. The mills here shut
down Saturday and started up Tues
day at o'clock. They finished Sat-
urday morning with only three mills
The mills are doing no better than last
week. Last Friday night a tin honse
man fell from the run while trying to
put on a klondike, fell and broke ono
leg and hurt otherwise. On Saturday
morning a scab timer on No. 20 got
caught in the machine belti he also
got leg broke and his head mashed.
was reported dying, but is still alive.
Last night (Tuesday) three mill hicks
got hurt. All three laid up for repairs.
One of them had his leg cut very nearly
off above the knee. There were II
hunks" left here Tuesday p. m. and
Wednesday morning for Cleveland; said
it was too hot and not making any.
money. There were some left Saturday
but how many, do not know. There
were lis mill men came home Satur-
day night from Granite City. They
did not all get to come as they are
operating 10 mills. One of the scab
timers and his wife went down to the
depot to see the boys come in, but
somebody made him take the count,
so his wife had to take him home, and
no doubt doctor his eyes. Another tin
house scab measured his length in,
the street Saturday p. M, but the
Fourth passed of quietly. Well. at
last the long-looked-for has come.
Judge Anderson of indianapolis has
decided the Injunction case In our IA
vor. This case has been in the courts
since July rs, 1909, and has costs tied
to it for over $4,000, which is up to
the company to pay. Justice grinds
slow but sure! ff
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-07-14
Judge Is Scored
By Labor Paper
Massachusetts Jurists's Baseless
Fling at Labor Resented by
Shoe Workers Journal.

A Massachusetts, judge in passing
sentence upon some juvenile violators
of the law took occasion to say that
the trades unions were responsible for
much of such crime because they pre-
vented young men from learning use
full trades and this forced them into
lives Of idleness and crime.
1t is probable, says the Shoe Work
ers' Journal, that the ends of justice
would have been fully served had the
Judge contented himself with passing
sentence on the persons convicted, but
he felt inspired 90 to make an accu-
sation against workipgmen without
according them any Of the common
rights of defendants.
When a Judge will thus go out Of
his way to throw brick at labor and
thus display his luminosity, what hope
is there that labor can expect any fair
ness from him in case any trial involv-
ing the rights of labor should be held
in his courts?
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-07-14
Bartenders
Squabble
Is Settled SO Far as the As
SembIy and A. F. of |.
Is Concerned.
OLD LOCAL UNION
STILL RECOGNIZED
Delegates Seated and New 10.
cal Not Recognized by
Contra! Body.

So far as the Ohio Valley Trades
and Labor Assembly and the American
Federation of Labor are concerned, the
Wheeling Bartenders' squabble is end
ed
The Assembly gave its decision in
the matter Sunday afternoon when it
seated the delegates from the old union,
No. 1872, of the Bartenders Interna-
tional League, having, at the previous
session, requested the new union, No.
of the Brotherhood of Bartenders,
to withdraw it's application for affilia-
ton.
The action Sunday was taken care
of under unfinished business, and the
matter threshed out thoroughly and
at considerable length. The vote to
seat the No. 292 delegates was unani-
nous.
This is the official ending Of a squab-
BILE that has been most unfortunate.
Wheeling bartenders, joining with
some from other cities, formed a new
International designed to hold aloof
from all other employees of hotels and
cafes, seeding from the old organiza-
ton, the Hotel and Restaurant En-
ployes and Rartenders international
League. The A. F. of L.. by long
line of decisions, is decidedly against
such dualism as detrimental to the best
interests of organized Labor, and now
the Assembly has announced itself as
likewise opposed. The members of the
new dual union, however. declare
themselves as determined in their stand
against the .,B r L. and association
with the employees of other crafts.
The union men of Wheeling join in the
hope that this attitude viii not be con
tinued to the injury of the whole local
Labor movement.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-07-14
223 NEW UNIONS IN
FOLD OF A. F. OF L

Despite the opposition and misrep-
reservations of the professional un-
busters and employers associa-
lions, the American Federation of La
Dor has gained 100 per cent in The
number Of charters issued to new CIR
ganizations since last October as COM
pared to the same period of the pre-
vious year. according to the report OF
Secretary Morrison. submitted to the
executive council.
The report shows that 22s charters
had been issued to new labor unions
in the last eight months. while only
III charters were issued for the same
period the year before. OF the new
chartered organizations. IS were loca'
unions. Sc bodies labor unions. 81 city
central bodies, international union
and / state federation.
From oct. 1. 1909. to June 1. 1910
the income of the A. F. Of L with tho
esh cash on hand amounted to $685.
e444s, and the expenditures were
s11s, s26.4s, leaving balance of $685.
E717s5.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-07-14
ARREST THROWS LIGHT
ON MURDERS IN GARY

kansas City,-Th methods OF =
sgang of murderers and robbers with
headquarters in Chicago were describ-
s. q the police of Kansas City. Kas.,
yesterday by James Tonoff, Bulgar-
ian one Of the assasins employed by
the gang. incidentally light was
thrown on three mysterious murder
in Gary. Ind.
Tonoff had. been arrested In Wien
ita Kan. He was believed to have
been implicated in the murder Of 2
FOREIGNER in q packing house district
,,sre He denied the charge, but con
fassea to killing Simon Nesteroff, q
maker Of Gary. Ind. last May. &c
then told the story of the Chicago
ea,,p Of criminals under whose direc-
f sion. he said, he had worked.
T5ea and two companions In Gary. Is
soid we're ordered to kill George Alex
snSer ! merchant. or Simon Nester-
~ ts,s the baker, and to get their money.
r was hard to find Alexander IN
Macs Macs where murder could pc dons
ssfelvg q they let him so, Nesteron
49, eo,ss,d asleep In front Of his ovens
' 1.i 5<illed him with an ak and, tooA
$40 from him.
81 .servian laborer IN Gary was beat
IA shot to death last winter Tn
=, ,,,,,slerer was never caught Ine ssa!s
| 1893 believe all three crimes 70 q
~ work Of the same persons
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-07-14
Indiana Strikers
Behaved Very RudeIy

ELwoOD. Ind, July S-There is d.
great deal of indignation here among
business men and employers Of labor
over the action Of the strikers at the
american Sheet and Tin Plate Com
pany's plant of late yesterday evening.
The roundhouse Of the Anderson, Ell
wood and Lapel railroad, situated with
In the enclosure Of the tin plate COM
pany, caught fire and part Of it was
destroyed. While the department was
fighting the fire, 900 Of the striking tin
plate employees stood on the outside
and sang ribald songs and made great
sport of the burning structure and the
efforts of the department to extinguish
the flames.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-07-14
CARPENTERS CHIPS.

Local Union No. 8, held stirring
meeting Friday evening, July 8, al
though the heat was intense the boys
stuck to their post and transacted the
business that came before them.
Brother Martin G. Taylor. Worthy
President Of the D. c. has been nursing
his foot for some time, receiving his
injuries while working on the library
job.
Brother Fred Miller of 1867 can SYM
pathize with Martin. as he too met ths
same fate.
Brother Frank Anthony Of No. 1867 IS
now resting at Camp Rest. We would
like to be with you Frank.
Brother Union Man have you sub
scribed for the Majority, If not why
not?
Remember your card and keep i
with you. six days we hope you can
work ana no over time unless absolute
" necessary. Remember Labor Day
and rest.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-07-14
.PRESSNEN END
ALL TROUBLES
Settled by the Recent Convention
- Columbus Decisive Ac-
- ton Taken.

& Columbus O.-The 22nd annual con-
4ventfon of the International Printing
Pressme nand Assistants Union, held
in this city at the A I. U. Temple,
made record for hot contests and de-
cisive action which had for its storm
center the point at issue between the
web and the fiatbed pressmen.
So important was the question OF
inter- Jurisdiction between the men wha
work in the newspaper offices (wet
pressmen) and those who work in the
job offices (flatbed pressmen) that the
convention ran two days over the i've
day limit in it's efforts to come to an
agreement.
1t was the office of the Chicago In
ter-Ocean that furnished test case
of the differences between the two
branches of the trade. A fiatbed press
man had been given the position Of
foreman in the web press department
over the objection of the web press
men, and the jurisdictional contest thus
brought to an acute stage was car
ried to the floor of the convention
which decided that, hereafter, before
|
paper press rooms they must present
their cards for acceptance to the news
paper pressmen.
An additional victory for the wei
pressmen was gained by a decision
which placed the cost of this contest
upon the treasury Of the Internationa.
Delegate Dooley of Washington, al
the very beginning Of the convention
successfully carried a motion to APP
point a committee to investigate the
last referendum vote in the election OF
of national officers, but the convention
finally decided, by the close vote of 10.
to 101, that no new election should be
held.
The proposition for the establishment
of trade school for pressmen carried
and the plans for. a tuberculosis pa,
tents home was upheld.
President George Berry, who Is
fatbed pressman and was chosen a'
the head of the international witt
out opposition by the last referendum
vote had need of all his ability as
presiding officer to bring the assemo
Iage to Anal agreement. Heated dis
agreements at one time even threat.
ened the existence of the consumptives
home
The present officers Of the 1nterna'
| tional are George Berry Of San Fran
cisco. president; P. J. Dobbs Of New
York. first vice president; N J. Elan
merry of Chicago, second vice president
a.. b Kreiter Of New York. third vic
president. and G. B. Crowley of Holy
Eoke, Mass. secretary and treasurer
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-07-14
L.aborParade
Will Be Big
Will Be Held at Noon This Year
Instead of Morning as
Before.
THINK CHANGE
FOR THE BETTER
Committee Appointed to Make
Arrangements for
Pageant.
FOR THE BETTER

This year the Labor Day parade of
Wheeling will be held at noon instead
of in the morning, the Labor Day COM
mfttee reporting in favor the change
from 10 o'clock to 1890. This departure
from custom is in the hope that the
street pageant will be larger, and that
the paraders can proceed promptly to
the picnic grounds without loss OF
time. 1t is confidently believed that 1t
will be a success. John Fleming. L.
Charles Ice and Andrew Fisher were
appointed by President Corcoran on
the Parade committee of the Labor
Day general committee.
LATHERS CENSURED
Lathers Local Union was dropped
from the rolls of the Assembly be-
cause of the failure Of that organiza-
ton to carry out the decision, of the
Assembly in the settlement of the
Creek bridge trouble. The union agreed
to take the work of metal lathing on
the bridge, at a certain figure, and
then threw up the work after starting
it. This, and the fact that the local
was in arrears caused the Assembly to
vote that the local withdraw. The sus-
pension is not permanent, according
to the rules, for the local, by paying
UP arrearages, can again apply for
admission.
WENZEL TROUBLE
The arbitration committee reported
that a conference with. John Wenzel
Of the South, Side Provision Company
has resulted in his offering to allow
his nonunion workman to join the
union. The. matter was then turned
over to Butchers Local No. for ac-
ton at their meeting Thursday night.
LINEMEN LIABLE
I. futile, a member of the Linemen's
union that was wrecked by the unholy
alliance between John Howard and the
Bell Telephone company, and the in
junction issued by Judge Dayton, was
before the Assembly and stated that
he and two other members, Joseph
Wagner and Irwin M'Kelvey, being the
only members with real property, were
held liable for the costs in the in
junction proceedings, amounting to
1929. He vas urged to take the matter
up with the International Brotherhood
of Electrical Workers.
RECEIPTS AND EXPENSES
The receipts of the meeting were
$114.64 and the expenditures were 500.
NEW COMMITTEEMAN
Perry Paxton, of Painters No. 81,
was chosen on the finance committee
to fill the vacancy caused by the re-
signation of Joseph Balzer.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-07-14

sThese are enemies Of Labor These
men, put in the city council by this
votes Of the working people, betraEed
their constituents, and did the bidding
Of the grab corporation that nov niles
Wheeling-the Wheeling Traction Co
They went on record last Tuesday
night Council held. its regular mektins
and the franchise application p1 the
Traction Company came up. Or alized
Labor of Wheeling had asked hat an
amendment be placed in the2grant pro-
viding for the employment Of union
men in the pumping station that the
company wanted erected, and. after
having two sieges with the joint COM
rnittee and one with the first branch OF
council, this was offered.
The franchises came up fpr action
Tuesday night, and no sooner had 1t
hit the floor that John Wate1hquse, Of
the wholesale grocery of that name.
moved q Substitute providing f0r the
ERECTION of the building BY anion
Labor. This was designed, " course,
to kill the real Labor clause, Mhich pre-
vided for THE OFERATV6e the
plant by union Labor. The Labor re-
representatives. lined up against it, and
the roll call showed that their friends
were seven and the Traction tools were
nine.
VOTED WITH LABOR.
The following voted against the fake
union labor clause: P. Voelling@, John
Garden, Pat Scalley, Mike Grogan.
Harry Bearley and Ben Redman.
4 CORPORATION TOOLS
These men voted as directed Ry their
corporation master, to give away the
rights of the citizens, and to make
helpless slaves of corporation employees
JOHN WAREHOUSE, "DR" ME
GRAIL, CHARLES H. WATKINS.
WILLIAM KNOKE, SCOTT" FAIR,
JOHN BECKETT. JOHN ,VOHLLIN-
GER c. L. TARRY, WI IL IL A NJ
SCHWERTFEGER.
It was no surprise to the Assembly
officers to see DIR" Megrail line up
with the Traction company, since he
has been known to 'get'' cases where
persons were injured by the Traction
cars. and neither was it surprising to
see Charles. H. Watkins, manager of
the Palace Furniture company stand
against Labor, for Watkins has been
consistently against Labor and a tool
Of the Traction company ever since his
election to that body with the assis-
lance of that corporation. Fair and
Beckett, too, were considered as Labor
enemies, and Waterhouse was expected
to line up with his class, while Schwert
feger showed the streak that was. al
ways in him. larry, though. was
thought better of, and the treason of
Knoke and John Voellinger was the
unkindest cut of all.
WORKED BOARD OF TRADE.
The victory of the Traction can be
blamed upon the Board of Trade. The
company managed, through the activ-
ity of Manager Nagel, who has entire
~ thrown off the mask of philanthropy
and gentlemanliness, to get aStbmmit-
tee worked to the end that it induced
councilman who had been elected by
Labor to turn traitor to the people wh1
elected them.
Labor is considerably wrought ul
over the matter, and it appears thai
the day of betrayal by elected officials
Is nearing an end. in Wheeling. Evil
dence is plentiful that the working
people are waking up; that they vii
not much longer be made fools of mis-
representatives who do the bidding Of
their corporation masters.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-07-14

The Supreme Court If Illinois has re-
Gently sustained State law limitins
the hours of labor for women employed
In wage working. thus exactly revers-
ing a decision on the same question
which 1t put forth IA years ago. It
then took the ground that as, accord
ing to the Constitution, sex was nc
bar, women were therefore. endowed
with the fundamental and inalienable
rights of liberty and property, which
included their rights to make their own
contracts. and 1t was therefore uncon-
stitutional for the police force Of the
State to deprive them of such rights
Since the issuance of this opinion. how
ever, no Illinois workingwomaIl has
came forward to complain Of her de-
privation Of liberty or any other right
which IA years ago the Supreme Court
considered endangered.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-07-14
Buy Union Label Underwear.

The representatiVe Of the B. e 2.
Textile Company. Cohoes, N, T., manu-
facturers of the B. & L. union label,
knit underwear. either in one or two
piece suits. vas in this city Tuesday,
calling on our local merchants to place
some Of his goods. Unfortunately he
was unable to place any on this trip IS
the merchants said the season had
been against them and they were over
stocked. The garments bearing the p
4 L, trade mark are made BY expert
union operatives under hygiene and
healthful conditions at good wages and
union hours Every union man buying
new underwear should see 70 It that be
has the label on it.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-07-14
Gompers Will
Not Be Here
Now Certain That President Of
American Federation of La
Dor. Can't Come.

President Samuel Gompers, Of the
American Federation of Labor, will not
make the Labor Day address in Wheel
ing. The Labor Day committee of che
Assembly invited the veteran president
to come, and he replied thanking them
for the invitation, but it is assured
that he will be unable to come. II
has not been definitely decided where
he will speak on Labor Day, but the
last convention of the Federation ad
vised him to speak in California. and
it is likely that the scene will be Los
Angeles, where the merchants and
manufacturers have thrown off the
mask and began bitter fight against
all organized Labor.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-07-14
FROM. GAS CRY.

Gas City, Ind.-The men in Muncie
are pleased that the independents have
signed the scale, though they think
they ought to have an advance. The
mill here was down but the one day.
but they are having hard time on ac-
count of the hearth steel the scabs be-
ing unable to do anything with 1t.
Much of 1t they can't pen and have to
cut it up for scrap. The Muncie mill
il down, some say for week, some
say for good.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-07-14
.nroanizad Labor Wins.

Organized labor won a sweeping vic
tory as a result of boycotting the
Cleveland Baseball club wherever they
played. The club signed a closed shop
agreement providing for all contracts
for tearing down, constructing or re-
pairs of the park with union labor.
All cigars and tobacco sold within the
park must bear the union label; so
must all printing.