Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-11-23
Antagonisdc Jury Organize District
Now Assured Council OF Clerks
Wheeling, Moundsvllle, 1elIaire and
Steubenville Are tobe
Included.
NEW ORGANIZATION FORMED,
AT sTEuRENvlLLg THURSDAY.
John Thompson at "Hub," Backed by
Employers, Still Fights
Unions.

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A Retail Clerks District Council,
which will include Organizations of
the craft in the Ohio Valley, has been
practically assured with the re-organ-
izing of the Retail Clerks union OF
Steubenville, which was perfected at
a meeting held in that city last Thurs
day night.
The Wheeling local was organized
only recently, and while it has met
with serious objections on the part of
several of the merchants, several
stores are being added to the list Of
union stores which continues to be
printed and distributed weekly. This
weeks list includes stores in this city
and Bellaire, where all retail stores
with the exception of the F. w. Wool
worth 5 and 10 cent store display the
union store card of the Retail Clerks.
The Moundsville and SteubenVille
stores are to be included in these
printed lists in the near future. Mem
bers Of organized labor in this city
are now placed In position where
they can purchase all necessities. even
dry goods in union store by visiting
the Bellaire dry goods stores, should
the wheeling merchants refuse to
comply with the Retail Clerks union
regarding the display of store cards.
Ladies' suits can also be purchased in
the Bellaire stores of union clerks,
which will induce many who would
purchase goods in this city to visit
the progressive merchants of the
nearby city.
Lonesome Thompson.
One lone individual, John Thomp-
son, employed at the Hub" store con-
tinues to keep the entire store from
being. unionized and while the store
does not display the union store card
Of the organization of clerks after the
store card of the Retail Clerks has
been endorsed by the Ohio Valley
Trades and Labor Assembly, no union
man can consistently spend one cent
in that store Not only is John Thomp-
son keeping this store from being a
union store, but many of the smaller
stores have expressed a willingness
to display the union store card "as
soon as~the tHubS Does" which means
that one lone man is not only retard-
ing the progress of the organization,
but interfering with the purchasing
of union goods in many stores which
look to this store to set the pace. Any
one doubling Thopson's attitude re-
garding the organization, should pay
a visit to the store and secure from
him his reason for SO antagonizing
the entire labor movement
s More BeF1nu It.
Should anyone think that John
Thompson is standing alone In this
affair, he should visit other merchants
and secure their side of the question,
which would undoubtedly prove that
there is something more behind the
stand taken that one mans "scrup.
PIES" Merchants who do not display
the union card Of the clerks in some
instances have expressed themselves
very emphatically regarding the Hub
affair which only aoes to show that
some merchants az least are behind
this man and are fCrcing him TO con-
tinue the stand he took from the first
and that organized labor will have to
use their purchasing power to even
better effect in order to unionize the
retail stores of this city.
Until such time as the Hub" store
employees only union clerks, the store
will be non-union and organized labor
| and its friens will be asked to take
note.
Organized labor mist demand union
clerks wait upon them in all retail
stores If the clerks are to be placed
in position Whereby a living wage
can be secfred for them and while
statements have been issued in at
least one Of the daily papers in an
attempt to offset last weeks article
Of the Majority relative to the large
per centage Of women and girls work.
ing in retail stores below living
wage, the writer fails to porve that