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Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-05-26
SOMETHING THE MATTER.

Fully $4,000 unorganized workers
have gone out on strike within the
past few months. The strikes OF
the unorganized have involved 80 to
40 per cent more people than the
strikes of the organized during the
same period, according to the Dallas
Laborer. Perry, Post, Van Cleave,
Kirby and their followers have al
ways maintained that the open
shop" was a guarantee against labor
troubles. How will they explain it
now since labor disturbances under
the, open shop policy outnumber
those under sthe trade agreement
policy? They will have to get some
other argument now against the
union shop. Apparently the non-un-
ionists are even opposed to employ
ers running their business "as they
see it. "-Potters' Herald.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-05-26
LABEL TALKS ,
By B. A. Booster. /.

I went in store the other day to
get a shirt. l didn't really need j,
but thought that there was no I'm.
ing when I might have to remove NV
coat, and prevention is better than
eircufaveptien.
When it comes to shirts am
dollar man. always. explain that
dollar shirt wears as well as any,
thing l ever bought. And this is true.
too; l never paid more. So told
the clerk to show me the dollar
kind. He had 81 varieties of them
stripes and bars and plaids and
polkadots-from staid, plain ones
that suggested prayer meetings to
young circuses that had robbed the
rainbow But | was hard to please
The clerk noticed it. He grew mo-
rose. Then l explained that none
of them bore the label. l had to sx-
plain, to tell him that the label was
proof that the garment had been
made under sanitary conditions, that
it was a guarantee that the shirt was
not gaudy but deceiying incubator
filed with quiescent tuberculosis
germs ready to pounce upon me and
prey to their little wiggling hearts
content.
CO., he explained. 20, wen, these
were all made in a union shop; ev-
erything we have was made by union
men, but sometimes. they don t put
the label on He seemed to think
that l ought not to think that he
thought that l thought that he con-
sidered me a monkey. So learned
with surprise that goods without the
union label were more union than If
they bore the label, and workers who
did not put the union label on their
products were better union men than
those who put the label on every
article. and that manufacturers who
do not permit the label to be used
were far better friends of labor than
those employers who did.
And l learned all this from a clerk
who thought himself better than me.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-05-26
The Children
OF THE
Very Poor

A Toledo newspaper is responsible
for the following vivid Bit:
''They were the children of very
poor parents. -
Such is the description Of the dog
en- little girls, none over 10 years of
age. who are held in Brooklyn as witt
nesses against white slave" dealers
who held out the tempting sight of
free moving pictures as a lure for
these babies. -4*
Such is the description most often
found whenever a look, ~ it casual
or thorough, is taken at the girls
and women who furnish material for
this traffic in human flesh.
So constant is this condition that
the wonder is that long ago humani-
ty has not recognized the very close
. relationship between poverty and sin,
and instead of centering its efforts to
reach out hand to the "prodigal
daughter" tried to remove some of
the causes.
For nineteen centuries the doc
trine of brotherhood has been taught.
Cathedral and humble mission have
united their voices in proclaiming
a doctrine of love. Mountains of dol
lars have, been raised to shout the
same message across seas. Noble
lives have been sacrificed to spread
it's joyous note.
And yet at the end of this time we
find that it is possible. for dozens of
little girls in short dresses to be sold
into worse form of slavery than ev-
er existed in the South. To be in
more terrible stress than the child
widows of India!
''They were the children of very
poor parents"
The little daughters of the poor,
turned over as victims to some lust
full brute, is the last price demanded
by the Powers of Privilege.
The parents of these particular lit
tie girls. the ones in Brooklyn, live
in the sqfIalid tenements-foul, dark
ened rooms on which some landlord
has lodged the taxes and spent the
money, perhaps, in the lavish splen-
dor of a palace.
The food, scant and coarse, has
been made more costly by trusts, pro-
tected by tariff. the extortion OF
which ;. perhaps, went for banquet
at Delmonico's.
The same story, perhaps, in less
british detail, might be written in
any city.
Every special privilege leaves its
scar. It may not always demand the
little girls bodies. 1t may only ask
for their labor before maturity. 1t
may only ask for the outings in sum-
mer, away from the heat in the city
with the fresh air that would enable
them to grow strong.
But as long as greed is armed
with the weapons of Privilege, there
will be these tragedies, and to the
procession of these little slaves will
be joined those other white-faced
half-starved, stunted ,seuls above
whom will be written the banner:
':They are the children of very
poor parents"
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-05-26
Let's Get Together

~ T now looks as though the Amalgamated Associa-
II ton and the Tin Plate Workers will get together
~ This is a consummaton devoutly to be wished.
L--J They should have been apart. But in the
old days of the Amagamated they only thought of pro-
tectng the high waged skilled men, and did not foresee
that changing Industrial conditions with the ever ncreas-
ing field of machinery would make less and less small
the field of the purely skilled and make the usked man
the one with whom to DEAL That stage, however, has
been reached No craft can longer stand alone. The
unions must get closer together the better to protect every
craft.
But this cannot be done suddenly-lke switching on
the electric light The industrial departmental plan per-
feet but the trouble is that must deal with mper
feet human beings Before we do much must ed
ucate and before education federation. And
before federation comes AGITATION is not necessary
to wipe out existing unions in order to build in their place
better ones The existing unions have in them the very
best members Of the American working class can
not teach them ndustras cannot teach ndustriasm
to the great mass not yet even organized.
Therefore it is far better to merge the two mill unions
than to destroy BOTH to advocate in the
hope of building better Let the two merge and let them
make the necessary mutual concessions will be
protected So that the in department. were they
so minded could not outvote unusty the Of another
department This the easiest and best approach to in
dustria unionism
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-05-26
SUMMON THE WEE BATTALIONs.
By Alfred j. Waterhouse.

Suffer little children to come unto
me, and forbid them not; for of such
is the kingdom of God.-Luke xviii,
10.
Out of the lanes and alleys,
Out of the vile purlieu,
Summon the wee battalions. .1
Pass them in long review.
Grimy and ragged and faded
Say, If you choose, with a tear:
''These are the ones of His kingdom,
And thus do l keep them here"
Here, where the tenements breed
them,
Gather them, gather them In.
Heirs to the kingdom of heaven,
Bound in the maze of sin.
What have ye done to uplift them,
These whom He loved SO we'll?
Oh, tiny and worn. unkempt and for
lorn,
Us Of your heritage tell.
Then faces, the wee. weary faces,
Old ere their time, so old;
Who from His kingdom tore them,
And into this bondage sold?,
Folk of the stately churches,
Here is the baby host,
Heirs to a Fathers glory,
Marked with the grim word
Lost"
The faces, the old. old faces,
On bodies, SO wee. SO wee;
Whose is the hands that crushed
them,
And made them the dreg and the
lee!
"Suffer the little children
Is this the answer we bear?
That they live their lives in the
haunts and dives,
The children Of dumb despair?
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-05-26
A GROWN FOR EVERY ONE.
BY Dave Fulton Karsner.

Awaken you slaves who toll by the
hour
In factory. or mill or mine;
The word is given. oh spread it
around
To comrades in every cline.
They've bought us, and sold US,
49,, then let US die,
When machines sucked blood from
our veins;
They took our best when we had it
to give.
It's all because CAPITAL reigns.
They've made your daughters the
chaff of the street;
And they've locked your boys in a
Jail.
They've robbed your homes ofSthe
prattle of babes,
They chant to PROSPERITY, hail!
Come lock your arm IN your broth
er's comrade,
There's a hope as bright as the
There's goal to reach, and crown
to wear
A crown that's for everyone.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-05-26

HE daily papers tell usof who killed another
4n for money, and we shudder and note with some
i " satisfaction, that he is punished.
- Out in Canton the other day the Steal Trust
murdered and manned several dozen for money and
nothing will be DONE The Canton mill was known as the
Scrap Pile" During the last year. when the Trust has
been trying to crush out of their workers every spark of
manhood the work that the employed in modern mills
refused to do transferred to Canton where the work
es had been starved into submission and where the plant
was too old and too unprofitable to work.
Rather than agree to decent wages and conditions
with it's union employees the Trust took the change-t
gambled with the lives of men, It won and murdered
them.
But Gary and Pargney will not be arrested. Only
workers were killed
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-05-26
The Ballinger ''Lnuestigation"

N. INPREJ UD1CED people VINO nave WSIcneQ Lne ue-
09 veopments of the Ballinger Pinchot controversy
w can have doubt of the guilt of Ballinger and
- the administration in traficing with private in
terests for the exploitation Of public lands It is evident
that all the defendants hope to do to prove that the
pot called the kettle black This may true to degree
the evidence far presented does to indicate
that Pinchot that rarity public servant without
private graft
But let no one imagine that the Committee will find
Ballnger any other member of the administration
guilty. Administration men control the committee and
the verdict will be strictly in accord with the economic in
erests Of the members Of the committee Banger will
which will Pnchot and CLAWS and the other pro-
eressivsts and the Democrat members of the committee
report sustaining the accusers and censurng Banger
and the administration.
The verdict was rendered before the committee held
its first session No amount of evidence could sWefve any
member from the course bis economic interest mpeled
him to take
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-05-26
The Poet . Corner
DON'T WORRY. DEAR.
BY Samuel Merwin.

Don't worry, dear: the bleakest years
That clog the forward view,
Each Trims to nothing when it nears,
And we may saunter through,
The darkest moment never comes,
1t only looms before;
The loss of hope is what ibenumbs.
Not trouble at the door.
Don't worry. dear; the clouds are
black.
But with them comes the rain,
And stified souls that parch and
May thrill with sap again.
The burden bear as best we can,
And there'll be none to bear;
But worry did its share.
Hard work has never killed man,
Don't worry, dear; don't blench. dom t
yield,
But dare the years to come;
Nor give the enemy the field
Because he beats his drum.
These little woes that hover near
Are nothing, thoughsthey gall;
We know that life is love, my dear,
And life and love are all. y
Youths Companion.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-05-26
Dorare @reflep Sain:.

Il cannot forget that the laboring
class, so-called, must like any other,
stand up for its own rights, Or be
content to see them trampled under
foot; and that the strength giOen it
BY organization, superinduced upon
members, is its only efectual de-
Tense against the else unchecked ty-
ranny of capital, eager for profit
and reckless Of others rights. La
Dor is helpless and a prey pithout
organization.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-05-26

Even the very mild fact that Pres
ident Taft realizes that there is OPP
position to the election Of Governor
Hughes as member Of the Supreme
Court it IS q trifiing sign Of advance
and awakening comprehension
New York Call
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-05-26

The conversation turned upon the
alderman from the 'Steenth Ward.
''What do you suppose he's WORTH"
asked one man. Nobody knows"
said another. Sometimes you can
buy him for $50, and at other times
1t takes $500."-Chicago Tribune.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-05-26

The printers boy has come for
the report of that lecture on the
Higher Criticism. Is it finished?"
SAll but sentence in the middle,
and I can't make sense of my notes. :"
'sWell. Just put in great applause
and let it co. The report appeared
with the following: Friends. will
detain you but q few moments longer.
.(Gfeat applause D.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-05-26

1t is reported that since Senator Ell
kins and Attorney General Wicker
sham, those noted Labor leaders, have
conferred with President Taft, the
Railroad bill has been made perfectly
protective Of the Trades Unions.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-05-26
SUPPOSE SO.

The guard system has flourished
during the past few years under the
wing of the master minds and the
officers of the law elected by the peo-
pie. Will they stand for it longer,
or will they vote honest men into Of
flee. Charleston Argus.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-05-26
CClSS0RED
.6GQt!n545
GOOD SIGN.

The overthrow of Committeeman
Thomas Taggart at the Indiana
Democratic State Convention is a
credit to the party. Incidentally 1t
IS another indication that the people
have grown tired Of politicians Of
the Taggart stripe.-Buffalo Repub-
lie.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-05-26

THE CHAMPION BORE.

"I-Told-You-So's are many, and
they're bad as they can be;
1 sometimes think they far outclass
Perpetual Company"
But neither nuisance equals he alone
who sees the light
That last and woSse of Brothers Bore
The Man Who's Always
Right!
The glib, persistent Agent an Attic
ton and a, bore;
So is Papa with a Prodigy a moral
trial ore,
And the Man With His Own Re
ceipe's a burden, I'll admit
But none can cause your ire to rise
Like He Who's Always It!
The Man who Rocks the Boat, and
he who shoots Unloaded Guns;
The Table Toothpick User-all can
take their little buns;
But they cannot touch the gent who,
summer winter, spring or fall,
Day or night. is always perfect-The
Man Who Knows it All!
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-05-26

Sunday School Teacher; willie,
where do bad men go when they
die?" -.
Willie: ITO Congress, ma am"
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-05-26
TAFT HOUSE IN RENERLY.

President Taft's summer residence
Is a large frame dwelling, situated on
q beautiful estate near Beverly, Mass.
The grounds OF the estate run down
to the shore of Massachusetts, bay. Il
Is situated among the most fashionable
residences Of the Massachusetts coadk
The president has leased the place for
A. sfinEaar.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-05-26

Suffragette Society: I'VE must call
on the countess next =
But the countess is in jail. y
Well, one must not neglect zones
social duties. Let Us drive around
to the jail and leave cards. "
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-05-26
The MIL Men, 5 Fight

HE mill men, fighting against the Steal Trust, are
il III making fight not only for themselves, but for
4 W all Of us. The business man. who complains
loudly about the stagnaton caused by the strike
will face worse the mills non-unionzed They have
but to look at the cities where the Trust has recured
pete mastery to learn this In Gary Ind, which is the
perfect fruit of the open shop SYSTEM have called
attention to the fact that the big Chicago -four obbers
have withdrawn because they could not collect their bills
The mills there working, but the get little that
they cannot pay for their -four.
Good wages means good business, and when the bus
mess men help the Trust crush out the unions it will only
be little longer until wages are put where the workers
will have no money with which to buy goods from the bus
mess man. Then good many business men, perhaps, will
have to look for jobs in the mills.
Van Cleave is dead It is considered unknd to speak
III of the Dead so will merely remark that the Labor
movement that he set out to kill is still living.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-05-26

Building 1aborers in Spokane have
organized and affiliated with the Gem
trail Labor Council.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-05-26

Coal miners and operators have
reached an agreement In Illinois.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-05-26

Magistrate" Have you any visible
means of support"
Prisoner: "Yes. yer wushup." (To
his wife, a laundressl: "Hemmar,
stand up SOS the court can see yer. ;"
Throne and Country.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-05-26

Mrs. Slangem (upstairs): "Bridg-
ct, have you turned the gas on in the
parlor, as / told your"
New Domestic: Eyes, ma'am;
can't you smell it?"
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-05-26
BUFFALO BILL.

BUFFALO BILL. -
Colonel william F. Cody is known In
all parts Of the world, civilized land
uncivilised, as Buffalo Bill" Colonel
Cody was born In Scott county, Ia.
In 1846 and began his career on the
plains as pony express rider in 1860
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-12-28
DESIGNATION BY FREEZING,
Cold Used instead Of Heat In New
Process OF Maxine Milk Powdar

Cold Used instead Of Heat In New
Process OF Making Milk Powder.
The processes currently employed for
making milk powder are based upon
disiccation by heat. In a process re-
Gently devised in France by Lecomte
and Lainville the action of cold Is SUBJ
stituted for that of heat. The milk ia
poured into vessels similar to those
which are used for producing blocks
Of artificial ice and is cooled to a few
degrees below the freezing point (about
28.5 degrees F.). Suitable precautions
are taken to prevent the water Of the
milk from freezing in a solid mass
and to cause it to assume the form of
fine o The CONCEALED milk is then
placed in a centrifugal separator which
revolves very rapidly. The snow crys-
tails remain in the machine. while the
other parts Of the milk are expelled in
the form Of a soft. greasy paste.
which still contains some water.
The desiccation is completed by plac-
ing the paste in a drying room heated
to a moderate and uniform temporal
ture. The milk powder thus produced
has been proved by analysis to con-
tain all of the constituents of the milk
except the water in an unaltered con-
dition. The process is equally applica-
BILE to whole milk and to milk depriv-
ed of part or all of its a
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-12-28

that he was supposed to be a Span
lard. and it was only after this trip
that Europe finally learned his nation
atty. What made the journey all the
more remarkable was the fact that it
was only the fifth time he had gone
up in an aeroplane, and be was looked
upon by European bird men as an am
ateur from whom they had little to
fear in the way Of losing their laurels.
Recently Moissant returned to Amer
lea to take part in the contests at Bel.
mont park. and his work is attracting
much attention.
Another recent feat to astonish the
world was that Of George Chavez. the
first man to fly over the Alps in an
aeroplane and who died from injuries
in a fall at the end of his trip. The
passage Of Chavez was extremely i'm
pressive and was witnessed by a group
Of the Augustine friars from the hos
pice. Like a gigantic bird with white
outstretched wings the spectators first
saw the machine hugging the flank of
the mountain and above the yawning
Saline gorge. The wind was blowing
at the rate of three meters a second.
and the airship rocked %perceptibly as
1t passed v e the heads Of the cheer
ing spectators at a height of above
$50 feet. Chavez took the Monsera
route. crossing the pass at an altitude
of more than 5000 feet.
A little more than a century ago Ma
poleon built the great military road
over it. an engineering feat which will
forever be regarded as highly credit
able. Five years ago a railroad tunnel
cut through twelve and a half miles
of mountain rock and earth was open
ed as another and quicker means Of
travel. That, too. was a marvellous
work. There has since remained but
n other method Of passage across the
mountains. and that was achieved when
Chavez's aeroplane circled up 5000
feet into the frosted air and shot over
the depression into Italy.
The accident occurred as Chavez was
~endeavoring to make a landing at Dor
nodassola. The Alps had been crossed
successfully. and the aviator was de-
scending gracefully with the power of
his machine shut of. When about thir-
ty feet above the ground a sudden gust
Of wind seemed to catch the mono
plane, which turned over and fell. car
rying down Chavez with it. When the
crowds that had been watching the de-
scent ran up they found Chavez dying.
Still another bird man to gain much
fame recently is Claude Grahame-
White, the British aviator. whose bril-.
liant work at one meet in this country
netted him $4,000 in cash prizes. He
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-12-28
SUNFL0WER VALUABLE.
Both Seed ard Stalk Are Extensively
Used IN Russia.

Used In Russia.
Americans do not regard the SUM-
hower.s which is said to be one of our
own native plants. as being of much
practical service. but In Russia it is
utilized in many ways.
There the seeds are eaten in immense
quantities. raw or roasted as peanuts
are In America. and the oil obtained
by pressing the seeds is NJ important
article OF food. The frequent religious
feast days in Russia restrict the use of
meat and lead to a large consumption
of vegetable oil. aud the manufac-
ture Of sunflower oil has consequently
grown to considerable dimensions in
that country. The best seeds yield an
oil that compares favorably with olive
oil for table purposes.
Even the upper classes in Russia, It
IL said. eat the seeds. the larger and
hner ones being quite equal to most
nuts IN respect Of palatability and
wholesomeness. The stalks and dried
leaves are highly priced for fuel. being
in some parts of the empire almost the
only available substitute for wood. An
acre Of sunflowers will yield many
cords of good fuel.
The oil appears to have more Of the
general properties Of olive oil than has
any other known vegetable oil. Ii
takes about a bushel of seeds to make
a gallon of oil. and fifty bushels Of
seeds can be grown on one acre of
land. As the oil sells at about a dol
lar a gallon the profit is large.
At nj time purified sunflower oil
was used quite extensively to adulter-
ate pure olive oil. 1t is Of q pale vel
lowish color and decidedly palatable.
In addition to the nil from the seeds.
the stalks when green and the oil
cake make excellent fodder. The fiber
Of the stalks. which is fine. silky and
strong. also has Il value. In China 1t
Is woven into beautiful fabrics. aud 1t
il believed that by the use of proper
machinery II might be used most prof
ftably in this country.