Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-09-15
Says Too Great Sacrifice Has
Been Made to Turn Back
Now.
SCORES DISRUPTlOMlSTS
BOASTS REACTIOMISTS
Men Who Advise Segregation
Are the Enemies of
Labor.

Those persons who are trying to de-
stroy unfonism in Wheeling were CIV
en- c nsiderable attention by Sam De.
Nedrey,a of Washington, D. c., the
fountain head" of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, at the Trades Assem-
oy hall Sunday afternoon. Mr.. De-
Nedrey, whose experience in the Labor
movement has covered SO many years
and so many sections of this country
that he can now recognize a union
when he sees it, was unsparing in his
Condemnation of the men who are put
ting forth every effort just now to de
stroy the Bartenders' International
League and Hotel and Restaurant En-
ployes' International Alliance. He
blamed it upon some saloonkeepers
who wanted to see no union, and some
bartenders too stingy to pay dues
nonunionists in their hearts.
His address was attentively listened
to and the frequent applause showed
that he struck a responsive chord. Sa-
loonkeepers and bartenders were es :
peciaIly invited to the meeting, but the
members OF the nonunion 'sunion" and
the saloonists who uphold them were
conspicuous by their absence, that they
did not care to hear a message of tru.
ariionism Uncle SAM" however.
with the remark that he would try to
give absent treatment" spoke al
length and to the point.
In referring to "some clergvmen who
strain at d gnat and swallow a camel, =
he said:e saThey ignore the real evils
that make miserable the life OF mil
lions, and devote tehir energies againsl
an effect, instead of against a cause.
They do this for something to do be-
sides work Many of them cauldn't
hold a decent pulpit charge year, be-
sides, the crusade" permits them t.
live in one continual visit, on close
terms with acknowledged chickens
and the collection box. They are as
;intolerant as the day is long and the
mighty is dark, and could they but
have their way this country of ours
would be moved bodily backward into
the time when old women shriveled at
the stake in the fire of fagots. Don't
take my word for this, read the con-
gressional reports of the hearings on
these questions. Give them sway ir
the Ohio Valley and they will make
you good" by laws don't want to
be good that way. I want people to
be good because they are offered the
opportunity to be good; the opportun-
ity that comes with making this a hap
pier life to live.s Our movement, the
Labor movement, is doing good every
hour of every day by the real ami
practical method of getting for the pro-
ducers an ever larger share of theic
product and larger share of leisure
time in. which to become acquainted
with their families. This is the kind
of good / want, not for myself alone
but for all the workers. And the ia
natics do not take into account all the
workers. They do not provide for thu
craftsmen who would be thrown into
the army of the unemployed by cut
ting out whole industry from our
system. Because one man, driven to
desperation, probably, by the condi'
tions which they ignore and which the
Labor movement is trying to alleviate
gets drunk, these fanatics are willing
to deprive hundreds of thousands OF
men Of all opportunity to support their
families.
ssAnd4 they have made progress in
this useless movement they have
lmade it because the forces opposed tt
them were divided. The brewers have
\ been fighting the distillers and the en-
ployes have been fighting each othe'
by their craft unions.
TRYING TO DIVIDE.
Nov you are trying to divide again
even one craft of one branch of the in.
dustry. Here in Wheeling you are try
ling to get. up a dual union of bartend-
ers You have reached the poin'
1 where there are two organizations Of
Ibartenders: one with the FRIENDSHIP