Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-11-23
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Wonderful Campaign Being Waged
BY Socialists in face Of
Awful Opposition.
49,
ALL NEWSPAPERS BUT ONE
AGAINST WORKING CLASS.
49,
powers of Oppression Have Stopped
Masquerading and United
Against Worke rs.

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Los Angeles, Cal, Nov. 22.-Every
banker in Los Angeles has been as
sessed 81 1000 by the campaign COM
.mittce of the so-called good govern
ment organization. This will add
100000 to the already large slush fund
that is being gathered and spent to
defeat Job Hartman and his asso-
ciates on the Socialist ticket.
The fact that twenty eastern cities
have recently elcted the Socialist can
didates for mayor, and that the rising
tide of/Socialism has swept several
hundred Socialists into Office has
greatly alarmed the fusionists, who
have been forced to combine in the
hop of defeating the working class
party.
Until the primary election there was.
little alarm, but when the immense
vote of the workers was rolled up, a
CRY of pain and alarm went UP from
the camp og the old time corrupt poll
ticians
The efforts that ere being made to.
turn the tide away from the Social
lists would be comedy if 1t were not
for the fact that bribery and corrup-
ton is running rampant in a CITY that
has been fairly clean.
In order to turn public opinion from
the big issues-the steal Of lands and
water in the San Fernando Valley, the
diversion of Owens River Aqueduct
waters to the lands owned by Fl. y.
Otis and E. T. Earl, the publishers
plunderbund," the grab Of 1000, 900
worth Of water front at San Pedro
Harbor, and similar deals, the good
government" gang is dealing IN q
series of falsehoods and misrepresen-
tation of the policy of the Socialists.
While this is going on. the workers
are distributing fully 100000 pieces OF
literature each week and making 80
precincts resound with enthusiastic
hall meetings. and hundreds of outdoor
meetings each week.
The Wednesday night meetings are
held in Temple Auditorium. which &C
commodities $500 persons. Large
overflow meetings are invariably held
there. On one occasion, the night be-
fore the primary election the auditor
ium and all other down town halls
were filed and fully $4,000 persons
listened to speakers on the streets
while the police vainly tried to stop
the speakers from addressing the
throng.
A large store building was rented
in the heart of the business district.
One thousand seats were PROVIDED
and noon meetings" were started.
These meetings soon became acontinu'
Gus performances" and speakers were
in such demand that an all day sche'
dule has been arranged. business
men by the hundred flocked to this
meeting which usually begins at noon
and runs until ten O'Clock at night
Sixty five experienced speakers are IN
the field. Among these half dozen
among the candidates on the Socialist
ticket have developed into eloquent
speakers and their oratorical powell
has brought them much local fame
The campaign has developed mum
Der of writers and the literature dis
tributed is bright and clever, dealine
with the needs of the hour.
Two printing establishments, The
Citizen Press and the White Press
enterly manned by Socialist worker:
and employing about 40 men are DC
ing run on three shift schedule
turning out copies of the Coming VIC
tory. This publication was startet
early in the campaign and the last o
them of the press win be fun sizes
newspapers, with eight pages. run q
the presses of daily paper and reach
ing 10000 circulation. The distribu
tive team consists Of 245 precinct car
tains and scores Of lieutenants. It !
claimed that LIE. 900 copies can be pu
INTO the homes Of the people insid'
OF I'VE hours after a signal is given.
Among the literature that has BEEF