Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-06-06
WE WILL NOW HAVE --------
A Felu Remarks
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
BY WALTER B. HILTON

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KILLING THE GOOSE that lays the golden egg is
pastme Of those who do not know any better The ee
ment in Wheeling known "Big Business" is and has
been most actively engaged in this diOtic pursuit The
Big Bugs have twisted idea that the tenor oil
their way toward money is disturbed by the PERM
cous activity Of the working class toward lettering he
conditions They point to the hog which they say
is satisfied in his pen and ask why Labor not contented
with it's lot in life They ahead juicy dividends from
their industrial stocks, fat returns from their rented
tenements and bsaed profits from their merchandising
if only the working class would its internal dis
turbance Thus they set every possible obstacle III the
way Of the economic and political advancement OF Labor
and among the obstacles they set the elevation OF MUM
cpa above the reach Of the rabbe and the
establishment Of the open shop.
To further their objects generally they have many
agencies The press pulpit and platform become but
graphophone horns screechng out their masters voice
The platform because the professors believe they owe
their jobs to the favor Of Big Business the pulpit because
Big Business pays the salaries and the press because
Big Business furnishes the advertising, which is the life
blood Of the newspapers Of there conbutory
causes suc for instance the professor and preacher
whose training and associations lead him to believe that
the working class motley and that all that is good
and noble comes from the Bg Bugs" who permit him to
eat from their tables and the editor whose own invest
ents are in industries whose profits squeezed from
underpad labor and disturbed only by the agitation OF
the workers.
But however their motives vary, they are unit on
the proposition that Labor must be crushed that sweet
peace may settle down. Perhaps they do not know per-
haps they do not care the peace Of the cemetery
via the Market Auditorium fight They figured that they
could whip the Carpenters and that after that 1T would
be easy sailing for the wping out Of the other unions
The sudden display of solidarity the part OF the Brick
LAYERS was dsconcerng to them and when all the other
crafts lined up with the Brcayers and behind the Car
penters it left them suffering and sputtering, in
terestng stunt at which they still engaged up to the
time the country editor says, Of going to press
So they have not won yet They have been trying to
kill the goose that lays their golden the half
wages which buy goods from the merchants--but the
goose resoutey refuses to be killed It has but suspended
the usual stunt Of laying the golden eggs for the master
class Without the golden eggs the master class must
perish The whole affair thus put in the hands OF LABOR
It is entirely matter Of the solidarity OF Labor Ii
the workers stick together the combined efforts Of all
the Big Bugs in this Ohio Valley cannot bulge them
If the workers realize that the interests OF one craft are
the concern of all crafts then there nothing at all that
the masters can do to them The masters cannot them
selves do the work They can only stand between the
their power over the press and the pulpit and the plat
form they cannot drive nail hew stone or spread
trowefu of plaster 1t takes labor to 40 tha the aoor
of human being And that human being made the help
less victim of the master class by it's possession OF the JOB
he needs becomes himself the master when BY uniting
with his fellow worker he controls the work. from the
doing Of which the master reaps his profit.
And this banding together is the one and only thing
that will save u.s. We See it being INDUCED in by the
other side shoe store ropetors oandng togetne
to keep their poor clerks from organzng we see the
department store propretors banning together to keep
their girls working less than living wages and we can
profit by their example
This open shopping crusade began that you near
to victory If you stick you cannot lose Don't let the
boss tell you how much money you are losing ne IS losing
as much as all his employees combined lie makes as much
from each of you each of you makes there are ter
of YOU and each lose 49, then he loses $780, You have
pealed to his heart and failed NOW you are appearing
to his pocketbook, and you will win.
The Openshoppers fighting Labor IN order to
make more money They will stop fighting Labor When
it costs them too much money TO 40 t0e ngntng
costing them too much money now they cannot stand it
much longer.