The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-06-30

big mass meeting of the miners of
Black Betsey, Bancroft, Plymoth Ray.
mond City and Harmon IS Creek will be
held at Plymoth on July 4th Vice
President Lanham, Frank W. Snyder
and others will make addresses.
National Executive Board Member
Thos. Cairns returned from Pittsburg the
first OF the week, where he has been en-
gagged in work for the national organi-
zation. He is now in Ohio performing
duties of like nature.
very successful meeting was held
at Mucklow the first of the week and was
addressed by Messrs. Lanham, Barry and
Hastings. The local union at that place
is in n flourishng condition and the
membership is increasing rapidly
w. q. Peasants, one of the most ag-
gressive workers in the movement was
here yesterday from Mucklow on a busi.
ness visit. Bill says everything is NOV
ing along very harmoniously.
The West Virginia miners are coming g
to the front and paying the-25 cent as
sessment to assist their brothers north of
the Ohio river who are struggling to
maintain union conditions.
National Organizer Barry held very
interesting and profitable meetings this
week at liurnwell and Hickory Camp
Micky is highly elated over the success
he met with on Paint Creek
bly, butched up by guards on Loup Creek
in February, is still at the general hospi-
al in this city and his condition is slight
ly improved.
w. E. Zirkle was here from Briar
Creek and reports that practically every
man on the creek is in the organization
and future prospects are very fattering.
The many friends of Secretary Morris
will be sorry to learn that his infant
child is seriously ill and little hope is
entertained for it's recovery.
The District Executive Board held a
three days session last week and trans
ant business.
Several meeting will be held in the
upper end of the district next week by
organizers Hastings and Campbell.
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CELEBRATE E-INDEPENDENCE DAY
Next Monday is the 134th anniversary
of the birth of new Nation. July 4th
should be appropriately celebrated by
every lover of free country, and by
every individual who believes in the prin-
ciple of equal rights for all and special
privilege for none.
The founders of this great Government
of the people, by the people and for
the people, the Declaration of Indepen-
dence became law after a long and
bitter struggle in which fortunes were
spent and thousands of lives sacrificed.
An attempt was made to establish human
slavery in this country. The will of chat
tie slavery was abolished result of
the Civil War, at q tremendous cost to
the Nation. The principle of human lib
erty being 4 sacred right was again re-
affirmed and established.
There exists in some parts of this
great country form of industrial sla-
very which is repungent to every lover OF
the Declaration of Independence. 1t is
because of the growing tendency in some
states to encroach upon the rights and
liberties of the wage earners of our coun-
try that Labor Unions are formed. The
mission of the Labor movement is to
safe guard rights as American cltl'
zens and to promote our welfare as wage
| earners and wealth producers. The rights
and liberties of the people have been es
tablished and extended usually by force
of arms and unnecessary wars with ali
their attendant evil
The Labor movement is an educational