Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-09-21
Belmont Assembly
With The Tailors
Al delegates Instructed to Take Back
to Local TaiIors' Struggle
~, BOOST FOR label
" OF ALL UNION CRAFTS
uucb Business Transacted by the Bel
mont Assembly sunday Afternoon

The oyer-the-riVer D0yS>Wlll De Will
tho local Tailors'. Union in the strug-
ole ii unionize the shops OF this dis
trict At the meeting of the Belmont
Assembly Sunday a communication
from the Custom .Tailors' Union when
road resulted In the delegates being
Instructed to report back to their To-
oo,s hoosting the tailor's label par
ticularly and all labels generally
particular attention was called to the
fast that Nal d. Fleming was oppos-
ing the lust requests of Wheeling eit1-
zens and sending Wheeling money out
to Chicago.
The meeting was called to order by
President M. J. Snyder. and in the
absence of Wce-President O'Toole,
chair One brother, not a delegate,
Delegate Hughes was called to that
was present, and being vouched for
nv Delegate Donahue, was permitted
to remain. The roll call showed IA
deleg ates present. The minutes were
annroyed after some COMMISSIONS were
corrected.
There were no new delegates.
Delegate Crunelle reported the
strike still on at the F. w. Wool
worth store in Bellaire.
Secretary Pyle, as delegate of the
Assembly to the Belmont County
Constitutional Convention, read his
report. and on motion of Delegate
Crunelle the report was received and
the delegate continued to represent
the Assembly at the adjourned session
of the convention next Sunday.
A communication was received from
the Ohio Valley Assembly calling at
tention to fraternal delegates missing
meetings of that body. The secretary
was instructed to reply that the Bel
mont's delegates had been out OF town
and incidentally, that but one OF the
Ohio Valley delegates had been at
tending the Belmont meetings.
Mitchell Day Deficit
communication from the joint
committee fixing the Belmont's share
of he deficit from the Mitchell Day
affair." and this was filed.
Convention Call
The convention call of the American
Federation of Labor was read, calling
attention to the necessity OF electing
delegates to the next convention OF
that body at Atlanta, Ca, ON
and giving the rules and data. The
communication was received and filed.
Tailors' Appeal
Custom Tailors had an appeal for
moral assistance in their fight to un-
ionize the custom tailoring establish
ments of the Wheeling district, and
particularly calling attention to the
fact that Nal D. Fleming. Twelfth
street, Wheeling, was antagonistic to-
ward organized labor. On motion OIL
Delegate Crunelle, the delegates were
instructed to take note of the matter
and make a slogan of "The Union
Label"-on tailored clothing and on
everything else.
Redding Talks
Organizer L. D. Redding OF the he
tail Clerks, made a few interesting re-
marks under good of the order ON
request of the chair, and dwelt parta-
cularly on the strikeof the clerks OF
the F. w. Woolworth Co., stating that
few union card men had gone into
the store, though most of the stores
patronage was from the non-unlon
steel works and novelty works, though
the total business done by the store
was probably not more than One-thir0
of the volume previous to the strike
Some of the merchants, he said, were
showing an inclination to oppose the
Clerks Union, and he urged the mem
bers of labor to look for union cards
He also referred to the organization
Of the clerks of Martins Ferry and
Wheeling. He thanked the Belmont
Assembly for the aid given the clerks
so far and asked for a continuation
of the appreciated assistance.
Delegate Crumelle added few re
marks, urging the workers to look FOL
the store cards.
Notify Merchants.
A motion to instruct the secretary
to write the merchants Of Bellair'
and Martins Ferry, asking them &
display the store cards Of the Retail
Clerks Union. and was amended I.