Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-03-28
Assembly Declares
Albert Beltz BISON and
The Hub Store Unfair

and Fourteenth streets, were declared
unfair to organized labor by the Ohio
Valley Trades and Labor Assembly
Sunday afternoon. Both firms are
claimed to be determined in their
stand against organized Labor.
Action in, the former case was ta-
ken at the request of the Journey
men Tailors Union No. The trou-
Die has been of long standing. For a
long while negotiations have been
going on between the Labor orgarl-
cations and the Beltz firm, first the
union exhausting every effort In en-.
| deavoring to unionize the establish
ment, and then the Trades Assem-
bly's arbitration committee making
several efforts. They stood rebuff
after, rebuff in the hope that an am
icable solution could be reached, but
it was finally made plain to them
that the firm does not. want to pay
union wages for making clothing.
This action has been forced upon
the Assembly. The central body is
compelled to inform all working men
and their friends that Albert Beltz
and Son do not care for their pat
ronage.
The Hub Store.
hTe Hub was declared unfair ct
the request of the Clerks union. Ac-
ton of this kind was asked for
months ago, but it was not taken, in
the hope that the management Of
the store could be brought to see
things in fair way, but 1t seems
that the Hub people will not listen
to reason. In the attempt of tbs
clerks Of Wheeling to improve their
condition through the only feas BILE
plan, org snization, they succeeded aL
one time in having twenty-t1o Hub
clerks in the union. But the attitude
of the management was sucn that
not one union clerk is working 10
the store today. Such coAditioa
did not prevail in any othsr store in
Wheeling, and seemed to be plain
to the clerks as a deliberate scheme
to destroy their organization and
keep the men and women, boys and
girls in the Wheeling stores in their
present deplorable conditiol Of be-
ing overworked and underpa;l. Thus
all the Labor unions Of Wheeling
have Joined to assist the clerks anG
ask all fair minded people to realize
that the Hub does not care for their
patronage.
Board Of Trade Refuses.
A letter was received from the
Board of Trade declining to receive
committee from the Trades As
sembIy on the Auditorium question.
Some weeks ago the Board Of Trade
officials were quoted in the daily pa
pers as knocking Wheeling in con-
nection with the Market Auditorium,
and the Assembly asked for con-
ference with the officials of the
Board of Trade to prove that Labor
was not knocking. .hTe answer has
at last been received after much
lodging, and the Board Of Trade
states that it "has nothing to do with
/ the Market Auditorium, that It is q
question between the Assembly and
the Auditorium company" That the
individuals comprising the Market
Auditorium Company and the Board
of Trade are substantially the same,
and that the Board Of Trade entered
into the natter sufficiently to de-
nounce Labor as knockers" are
questions that the Board Of Trade
does not center into at this time"
Organizers Coming.
Letters were received from the
Transfers and the Laundry Workers
stating that they could not send or
ganizers at this time but that they
would as soon as possible.
Mozart Park Suggested.
In a letter from the management
of Mozart Park that resort was sug-
gested for the annual Labor Day pic
mic, and the letter was turned over
TO the Labor Day committee for con
sideration. 6
The Gas Question.
I On motion Of Delegate Sims the
legislative committe was instructed
10 apear before council and let
hat body know that Labor did not
ro,;sb tha fdaa of letting go of 4
municipality owned utility by turning
it over to privately owned corpora
/ ton.
Organizer Lewis Here.
Organizer Lewis, representing the
a. F. of l., was before the Assembly
and was given the floor. He has
been here couple Of weeks, but
not, as some might suppose, In the