Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-03-02

has trusted, and paid his salary.
Benjamin Teagarden has Joined Law
yer in his selfish scheme, and the two
of them are now making all the trou-
BILE possible for all that is left of the
membership of the Tin Plate Work
Iers International Protective Associa-
ton.
AS a result of the actions of Law
yer and Teagarden, five members Of
the Association, duly accredited rep
resentatives of their lodges, are
bound over to the grand jury at
Wheeling, for doing what their organi
cation told them to do. and doing it in
the way exactly laid down by their
attorney, Charles ]. Schuck.
Since the end of the late strike
against the American Sheet and Tin
Plate Company the paying lodges of
the Association have been endeavor-
ing to hold convention to readjust
methods according to the new condi-
lions. Lawyer has steadily refused to
call such a conventic.4; even when de-
manded blythe unanimous action Of
the five local lodges left in the Asso-
citation On the other hand he called
a little convention of his own in July.
which was attended by persons who
were unauthorized to represent Local
lodges. Technically, it was Lawyer,
secretary treasurer, and Teagarden,
president, who did these things, but in
reality It is all Lawyer, for Teagar-
den is but clay in the hands of the
potter, and Lawyer uses him as he
pleases. =
Tried and Expelled. !,
Finally, last week, a trial board met
in Wheeling, composed of duly au-
thorized representatives fro N the five
lodges that still exist-and the only
five that do exist. This strial board,
was called to hear the charges against
Lawyer and Teagarden. The board
met, in due form, and the meeting
was preceded by due notification to
the two men of the charges preferred
Both refused to accept the notice.
and on the day of the trial both re-
fused to be present and defend them
selves, though both were in the city.
The trial board, hearing the evi.
dence of number of witnesses,
found both Lawyer and Teagarden
guilty of not fulfilling their duties, and
expelled them from Office. Lawyer
and Teagarden, wishing nightly to
hold on to that salary grab, refused
to recognize the right of their en-
ployers to discharge them, and refus-
ed to turn over the national Office, or
any property in it, or even the combi-
nation Of the safe, to the representa-
tives of the Association. On the ad-
vice of Attorney Charles J. Shuck, the
representatives of the Association
then took physical possession, having
the safe opened by an expert.
They found $46 in cash in the safe,
and naturally assumed that it was As
ISOLATION money Lawyer, upon his
return, claimed that there was SIS OF
Sc of his own personal money in the
safe. He didn't know whether it was
IS or Sc, but the committeeman offe:-
ed him the Sc, to make sure. Instead
of taking it, he suddenly thought OF
the chance to make more trouble and
expense for the Association that has
fed him and his family for dozen
years, and he went to the telephone to
call lawyer, and, though unable to
get in communication with his attor1
ney, decided that he wouldn't take the
money back. ''I'll see you in court, y
he said, and left.
The Trial.
! He did. He had warrants charging
burglary, issued against David Nor
ris, John Lalor, James e. Kane, Ben
iamin Thomas and Arthur Watkins
The first idea was to charge them with
taking the SIS OF Sc which he claimed
was in the safe, but somehow the
charge was changed to include the
whole amount, and so they we're ac-
cused of taking $45 from the safe.
The trial was held before JUS
tice Muegge. The defense put on no
witnesses, and it became merely a
QUESTION of law, technical prosecu
ton. Lawyer claimed that dead lodges
lstiu lived. in some sort of a spirit
form, and that the convention was
illegal and The trial board was illegal
land everything and everybody who In
lterpreted the constitution otherwis
than to the benefit Of Charles p Law
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