Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-07-27
Assembly Endorses
WOO|WOIt|l StIikG


Ohio Valley Central Body Will Sup
port Girls in Battle for
6ettermert.
GIRLS COMPELLED TO WORK
| FOR .ERY LITTLE WAGES.
Moral and Financial Support Of Or
ganized Labor Will Go OF
Clerks.
o.
Moral and financial support was
pledged BY the Ohio Valley Trades and
Labor Assembly Sunday for the strik-
ing girl clerks Of the F. w. Woolworth
five and ten cent store. The senti-
1ment of the delegates was wholly in
sympathy with these underpaid and
| overworked girl clerks, who have been
forced on strike by q firm that has
sacrificed evrey humane sentiment to
the single thought of making money
coming the lives of young girls into
cash.
E. E. Baker, general organizer of
the Retail Clerks International Pro
tective Association, was present and
made talk on the WoolWorth matter
| in particular and Labor matters in
general. He condemned in unspar-
| ing terms the attitude of heartless en-
ployers and found fault with the union
men of the whole Wheeling district
for the deplorable lack of union label
ed goods in the store, and for the fact
| that the clerks were unorganized and
worked such long hours for SO little
pay. He paid q tribute to the Ma
| jority, saying that it was Labor's only
voice in this whole section, with all
the other papers lined up against the
| toilers. s
Fraternal Delegate Andrew Crun-
| ellie also spoke ON the Woolworth mat
| ter. He showed that the claim of the
management that they signed no
agreement was not true, by proving
| that the store signed the proposition
of the merchants and only refused to
sign the proposition of the clerks.
Communication from Zilliken.
| A communication was received from
Senator Zilliken, who expressed great
i surprise at the action of the Assembly
! in condemning his attitude in the mat
4 ter of direct primaries when before
fthe last session Of the legislature, This
i man, who supported Clarence w. Wat
| san and broke his prediction pledge
made to Labor, seemed surprised that
Labor had sense enough to find him
out. The letter was tabled.
Non-LabeIed Printing.
/ The Printers had communication
before the Assembly relative to print
| ed matter being issued by the George
! p. Keith Company, makers of Walk
Over shoes, said printing not bearing
| the union label. Every delegate was
was instructed to take the matter
back to his local. The Printing trades
are emharking in an effort to secure
the label on the Keith printing, ana
in this will have the support OF all
Labor.
No Picnic Report.
Owing to the Assembly meeting be-
ing held on the next day after the
Labor rally, President Weekly an
nounced that there would be no re-
port from the committee in charge,
this being postponed until the next
meeting of the Assembly. 1t is known.
however, that the affair was not a
money maker.
/ Roasts Label Committee.
President Weekley gave gentle tip
i to the Label committee to get into &C
ton, The conditions in the Wheeling
district so far as the union label is
concerned are rotten. Very few
stores have any union labeled articles
at all. and no store makes any effort
to sell goods of that nature. That
there is concerted effort on the part
i of the merchants against the union Ia
bel is apparent, for stores that carried
i good lines of union labeled clothing a
year or two ago have either cut the
line out altogether or reduced it to a
pitiably small proportion. The Label
COMMITTEE will get to work.
Good for Moundsville.
Delegate G. l.. Gallagher reported
that he had visited the MoundsVille
Trades and Labor Assembly at the
Hast meeting and found healthy
trades union sentiment and also the
| best Of feeling toward the Ohio Val
llev Assembly. "The Moundsville boys
i told me- said Delegate Gallagher,
athat whenever the Ohio Valley As
sembly wanted any help, to call on
i them" The sentiment was roundly
lapplauded.
New Delegates.
| The following new delegates were
obligated:
Garfield Stogie Makers No. John
| W Mahrer, Ed. L. IMcIlwain, Ben
Kramer, Fred Stiehl, Clarence Ro-
Stationary Firemen No. 21-John
i Reilly.
i Machinists No. 500 Henry Schultz.
Brewery Workers No. 42-William
Wollenweaver.
i Receipks and Expenses.
i The receipt we're $22S.SO and the
4 expenditures 9s67.
/ william Payne, well known heater
at the Creek mill, is sick at his home
ON Hamilton street, Bellaire-
/ Some Of the meE from the Greek