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Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-11-28
Fault of sxstan,.

It Is the fault of the system that
tolerates it. You can walk upstairs
and find one of the finest police Offices
In the country. You go a short dis
tance farther and you find many other
dhe Offices They are all kept up by
the citizens Of the city and county,
all of the officials who are employed
in these Offices are working for the
citizens of the city and county. When
these prisoners are locked up they are
locked UP by the police department of
the city, paid by the citizens of the
city to do their duty and to enforce
good order and protect the property
and lives of the residents of the city.
1t would be good thing for the citi-
Zens to look after the welfare Of their
prisoners. for when they are placed
under arrest they are the prisoners Of
the city. 1t may be all light to place
degraded drunk soaked with boozn
one of these cells to sober
| is used to wallowing in a gutter or
an alley. But it is not right to place
a citizen, arrested under suspicion,
next door to this filthy drunk in c0ll
on a cold brick floor. The city that
| tolerates this is to blame; every last
citizen who pays taxes into the Golfers
of the city is to blam efor it. They
can SO arrange it to have two depart
ments if they choose. There is plenty
Of space in the city building at present
that could at very little cost be turned
into model Jail quarters.
t. Woman Quarers.
The woman quarters number four In
all, they are located in separate room
and are of the same order as the
others, only that the walls are made
of wood, with barred doors Here
also the girl picked up on the street,
OF arrested on some other charge, is
placed into cell along side of the
Criminal or the degraded prostitute.
This also is not right. How many OF
the well to do class. if perchance their
daughter was arresfited on some
trumped pu charge, would care to see
her locked up along side OF a girl
fro n1the red light district? Do you
think it would be right to arrange IL
that way? That is exactly what is be-
ing done at the present time. The
police would no doubt be glad to see
it changed it would aid in helping
the min their labors about the build
ing, their lot is not pleasant one at
any time. They are GU tenftch un
any time. Tehy are out in the cold in
the winter months, and also out at all
hours of the night in the summer
| months. There life is in danger at all
times; anything that is to be done,
no matter what It Is after darkness
falls the policeman Is compelled to get
busy I is time the good citizens OF
| the city were waking up to the fact
| that their Jail Is so years behind the
| times. They should get busy and
change It for the beent Of an co..
cerned.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-11-28
Assembly VIII
Help Packers

s. T.
The Ohio Valley Trades and Labor
Assembly viii ljoin with the other or.
CARNATIONS of Labor In this section
in aid OF the striking packers at the
Imperial glass house, in Hellaire, in
the effort TO bring abotu . conference
with the management.
At the meeting Sunday it was the
unanimous decision of the central body
to have its committee wait upon q
like committee from the Belmont As
sembl yand the Bellaire Flint slocals
and endeavor to induce the manage.
ment of the Imperial to holdta confer
ence- with them and the striking
packers.
This action was taken after a free
and full discussion Of the entire mat
ter, and had the sanction, of me ,Nints
present. It Is now believed that d
speedy adjustment can be hal, for the
management is not believed likely to
refuse conference with all tie bodies
making the request, and everybody Is
certain that an amicable termination
can be reached If but a conference is
held.
TO Help Unorganizedl
Chairman Herbert ]. Ninness of the
organization committee, reported On
the efforts being made to organize the
unorganized workers of Wheeling, stat
ing that several meetings he'd been
held, the last one that morning, and
explained the great need for such an
organization-one that would take in
and protect the unskilled workers who
have no unions now, and VINO are
simply used by the employers 10 crush
the union men, holding them is re-
serve army to take the places.of their
better paid brothers when they go on
strike He urged that all the delegates
take the matter back to their locals,
and urge the members of all tie exist
ing locals to talk unionism With all
their friends with whom they kome in
contact, urging them to cogae TO the
next meeting Of the Federal Labor I'm
ion at $3.50 o'clock on the morning OF
Sunday, December 8, at the Trades As
sembly hall.
Receipts and Expenses
The receipts were $41.10. expenses
1925.
Arbitration COMMITTEES!
Chairman G. H. Higgins of the Ar
bitration Committee, reported that the
committee had been called to the as
sistance of the Clerks in the Rttempt
to unioniZe the clerks. OF the Locke
Shoe Co., and that repeated efforts
had failed utterly to organize the store,
Delegate Stiehm, member Of the com
mittee, followed, verifying the report
of his colleague. They stated that it
was their opinion that he proprietors
of the non-union shoe stores were pre-
pari gnto give the Clerks Unions and
organized Labor.
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UNABLE TO ENFORCE LAM

Trenton, N. j., Nov. 8.--While there
are many psuedo political economists
who vehemently claim that the condi
tons of the working people can be bet
tered, established and controlled by
political action alone, an instance in
this city bellies the efficacy Of this plan
of procedure. A meeting was recently
held in the Young Womenis Christian
Association rooms, at which about
sixty lady clerks in the department
stores of this city were in attendance.
The object of the meeting was to dis.
euSs the means whereby the ten.hOur
law for women. passed by. the last
legislature, could be enforced. These
women were unorganized, and realize
their helplessness in enforcing any
law adopted in their interest. Repre-.
sensatives from the Central Labor I'm
ion, as well as from the local unions
in the city, together with one or two
organizers representing international
crafts, addressed the 9women clerks
and took the position that in order to
make their efforts effective it would
be necessary that they organize IN
ion. While an organization was not
perfected at the first meeting, arrange
ments have been made for a meeting
in the immediate future, and it is
hoped that srong organization can
be secured.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-11-28
Steel Business Good

Washington, No. 2S.-There must be
an African somewhere On the CONNER
ciai woodpile. It has been reported
in all the financial papers during the
lasts few months that the iron and
steel plants throughout the country
were swamped with orders and men
extremely scarce, and that the orders
now on hand would keep all the mills
working to their limit until far into
he coming new year. And now comes
z. G. Dunn with his review of trade,
n which q contradictory note is
;ounded. It says that labor is now
more plentiful, but that the steel mills
ire not operating quite up to the
saigh rate maintained in Ocober," yet
lives no reason for the 1essening of
the speed in the operation Of these
plants. The review goes on to say
that convincing evidence Of the re-
markable expansion IN iron and steel
was furnished by the increase Of over
one millioa tons in the unalled orders
last month. This was surprisingly
large gain and may be attibuted in
mart to the steady development OF new
axDork business.
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It's War When West
Virginia Miners Ask
For Living Conditions

Charleston, w. Va, No. 28.-(Spe.
ciaL)-Here is picture of a tented
village, nesting in a valley of the
Cabin Greek coal district in West Vir.
ginia, where miners are striking for
freedom from government by privately
paid mine guards and for a living
wage.
And beyond you. see the coal hills.
Fabulous wealth lies In these hills
and unspeakable misery under the
tents.
You see, Providence has spread out
fine table for all its children here,
and yet Within arms length of the
feast they are starving.
In these hills, put there for every;
body, is stored the power that moves
wooden mills and cotton mills and
shoe factories and lumber mills, but
under tents close by, live children who
are ragged and bare Of foot and who
have not even the shelter of roof.
Some Few Gorge All.
The strong few have gorged them
selves on the everlasting banquet that
was spread out for all, while the many
at the feot OF the hills have gotten
only the crumbs. 4
Last May they asked for q few more
crumbs sc]a
More crulnbs do you vant?"scried
the Coal Dukes-of the hills. eEither
Eyou take what you-get OF goarget none
al all" 1870
And that's the reason Tor tKs strike.
That is why men and Wouen and
children, driven frem their homes into
the highways, wait under their tents
with tragic resignation for the hard
ships of the winter; that's why men,
embittered, have been impelled to law
less acts; that's why mine guards,
hired by the Coal Dukes to keep in
trudeTs away from, the feast, have been
slain. rs
Last night miners shot into the de-
serted villages of Wacoma and Stand
ard. There are many such villages
scattered along the railroad tracks.
Their exiled inhabitants are now
squatting in tents on the highways.
j. w. Blankenship, a railroad en-
gineer, was struck by stray bullet
and wounded in the leg.
Privilege Reaps Reward.
Privilege has for years in West Viz
gfnia enjoyed. the profits Of an orgy
Of lawlessness of the respectable sinis-
ter kind and this is what it reaps.
And the governor of the state totally
unable to comprehend the deep, under
lying facts of the situation, is trying
to settle the dispute with soldiers
and martial law, which is being en-
ployed at large expense to the PEG
iple of the state to protect strike-break.
ters.
oh, sir. even if you live in some attic
| in city tenement, you can't half pic
ture what is being endured by the dis.
possessed in the coal valleys OF Kama.
city. She could not speak any longer
wha county.
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WEIGH BUSY

yice-Pres. w. F. WEIGH was des-
patched to Hagerstown, Md, to assist
President Will of the Cumberland Lo-
cal in .organiizng a new local at
Hagerstokn. He found a very unfavor-
able condition under which to complete
the organization and deferred further
work there to respond TO cab to as
sist Board Member Fit2geald upon
agreement work in the interest OF Div
sion NO. $50, Yonkers, N. T., and 498,
MT. Vernon and New Rochelle. N. z.
Late reports bear information that a
satisfactory settlement has been made
IN the interes Of Divisions Nos. 400
and 1873.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-11-28
Mother Jones Carries
Miners Fight To New
York and Washington

New York, Nov. 28.-(Special.)-
That the mine owners of Kanawha
Valley, of West Virginia, have resorted
to theft, murder and robbery in their
mad greed and desire to maintain a
yitual system Of peonage about their
coal mines is the substance of an in
tervfew that Mother Jones gave to a
Call reporter yesterday at the Union
Square Hotel.
From the facts She recited it ap-
pears that the coal barons will stop
at nothing and will stoop to the lowest
depths in order to extract more than
the usual lions share from the work
ers' product. They refuse to be salts
fed with the Legitimate" profits &C
cruing in the course of regular exploit
alton, and in their selfish appetite
for dividends and profits they have
gone to the extent of robbing' the
workers before he receives his pay en-
velope, charging the miner with hav-
ing drawn money which the miner
knows nothing about; and in addition
robbing him through the notorious
company store system, where the
worker IS compelled to buy his neces-
saries at prices which in many sins
stances are double those charged BIZ
independent merchants.
TIE strike Of Efa 600 I'd sEalheEs
in the Paint Greek and Cabin. Greek
districts" said Mother Jones IS
not the result Of an agitatia1s The
strike was spontaneous. The workers
were driven to it in their desperation.
The miners kenw well sthe conse-
quenees they would have TO suffer If
they struck, yet nothing had greater
terrors for the mthan to stay at work,
guarded by thugs and ex-conyicts, who
call themselves detectives. They pre-
ferred to strike and freeez and stafve
rather than slave in the bowels of the
earth and freeze and @starVe, too.
If People Would Only Think.
eff the people in the cities far re-
moved from the mines would only stop
to think under what conditions the
coal that keeps them warm and COM
Portable is being dug, If they could
only realize at what a great cost to
human life these black diamonds are
being brought out from within the
earth, they would see tear IN every
particle that composes each lump OF
coal. They would, instead OF the red
Pickering flames, see bloodshot eyes,
and in every one of these flickers they
would see an accusing finger pointed
at them, holding them responsible
for the maintenance of a. system, which
breeds such conditions. They would
know that every piece and every grain
Of coal is baptized in workers blood.
It became evident as she told the
foregoing story that she was moved
by what she repeated as she looked
back to the West Virginia coal fields,
where she left the struggling workers
in whose interests she came TO this
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-11-28
cONTHIPLATELABQR TEMPLE

Akron, Ohio, Nov. Asa special
committee has beeR appointed by the
central Lahhr Union to devise ways
and means for the building OF labor
temple. 1t is proposed to construct a
building, if possible, to cost approxim-
ately 100000. and to issue stock as
a means of securing. sufficient funds.
This action is in line with many other
central bodies throughout the country,
which are endeavoring to build a home
for the exclusive use Of organized
labor.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-11-28
B Brewery Workers Elect

Brewery Workers No. ss have nou1is
mated officers Cor the sxtt term and
the e1eetiO nwill be held ut the next
meeting. The following are the nOmi.
nees: president, Charles I1akkreutAs
vice VIM. Coland, H. See1; correspond
ing secretary. Wus Delwaide; financial
secretary, e. KlOetzer; treasurer, e:
Ebeling; local exc Rtiyas hoard, s Jas.
Gehring, L. Hayes, q. Horstmah, ShAn
Kalkreuth, j. B. Collins, JOS. Wolf, A.
Stahl, II. Seel; Tor joint executive
board, Jos. Armbfuster, Charles Horpes
G. Baehman, w Neidermeyer, E. Ebel-
ing; for Trades Assembly delegates,
VIM. Neidemeyer, Phi. Rheuter, E.
Sehubart, H. Mapes, L. Hayes.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-11-28
sroclE MAKERS NOMINATE

Owing to recent action of Garfield
Local No. /, Of the National Stogie
Makers. League, granting the shippers
union permission to use their hall once
a month there was no meeting Of the
Stogie Makers last Wednesday, post
poning until Wednesday next the nomi-
nation of local officers. Nominations
for the following offices will take
place: President, vice president, rec
ording secretary, financial secretary
and three trustees. Nominations Will
open until the first Of the year.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-11-28
.|n|luI1lan|y Treat
Men Transported
By False Claims
Charleston, W. Va, Nov. 2S.-(Spe.
cial.) For the last few days Charles.

Charleston, ". Va, Nov 2S-(Spe.
cial.) For the last few days Charles.
ton has been over run with transports
ton men lured into West Virginia by
those human scavengers, the labor
agents, as strike breakers A major.
ity of these men were picked up in
Chicago and New York and represents
every factor of that great army of IN
employed that thtung our large cities.
A motley crowd of unfortunate vic
TINS OF rotten economic system, not
only were they men and boys from
the different walks of life. but they
represented several nationalities. With
flowery promises these men were In,
duced to leave the city to seek a liv.
ing in West Virginia. The smoothed
tongued labor agents took advantage
of their ignorance and deplorable con
ditions and lead them to believe that
West Virginia was a promised land
where the bread and butter problem
could be solved. These men and
boys, for some of them were only
children, were lured from their native
homes by the deceptive lies and turned
their faces toward West Virginia with
a bounding hope in their hearts that
here at least they would be able to
shake the grim and lean wolves, hun.
ger and want, of of their tracks that
had bounded them up and down the
alleys of their native city and through
every avenue Of their wretched lives.
But this hope was doomed to die be-
fore it bloomed. Instead of freemen
going TO a land of plenty the poor
Victims found themselves poems and
Fprisonerg herded and guarded like cat
tie being taken into slavery. Their
dream faded and their Hopes died
with the labor agents promise Of good
food and q pleasant journey failed to
materiaNze. | 81
Inhuman Treatment. 4
The cruel and inhuman treatment
these men received while being
brought to West Virginia sounds more
like chapter from the history of bar
borous Mexico, OF an account of the
Russian exiles being taken to Siberia
than it does of an occurrence that
happened in a civilized nation at this
age of advancement and in the Gland
of the free and the home of the brave"
The Mexican poems being taken az
slaves into Yucatan were never more
brutally treated than were these men.
Some of these men were kept locked
and guarded in the cars from Friday
evening until Monday morning with
nothing to eat during these three days
but four small ham sandwiches each
and part Of the time not even water
to drink.
Made Raving Maniacs.
When the men were released from
the cars Monday morning in Charles
ton one man was having fits and two
others had lost their minds and were
raying maniaos. The train crews on
the Cabin Greek branch knowing that
these men were being taken into the
strike zone against their will refused
to pull the transportation cars up
the creek and the cars were brought
back to Charleston where the men
were dumped upon the charities Of the
city, hungry and penniless. Besides
the 80 men brought from Chicago, that
refused to go up the creek about 200
men had been brought In from New
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-11-28
West Virginia Coal Barons
Re-Enact Ancient Barbarism
TRAINNEN MAY REFUSE TO HAUL
SCAR COAL ON CABIN GREEN

means to take this step. The object
of the meeting mainly is to see If it
is possible to refuse to haul this coal
and not violate any federal law, and it
Is understood Hfey, claim their attor-
neys say thelsEAn do so.
This is a. important matter. and
may tie tMHgup completely on these
creeks and they think. it may bring
about a settlement Of this annoying
and costly strike.-The Citizen.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-11-28
Miners News

Frank Ledvineca, the well known
Wheeling Creek miner, has been ap
pointed international organizer by In
ternational President John P. White
Frank speaks seven different langu
ages and is stationed In Eastern Ohio
to assist Sub District officers.
Secretary Applegarth is sending Out
ballots to the various local unions fol
election Of Sub District officers.
All mines are working full time in
Eastern Ohio for q great demand fo1
coal
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-11-28
LEWIS RESIGNS POSTPONE /

William Lewis, formerly Of Mones-
sen. who has been manager Of the
70 rope mill, has resigned his position.
wnen Bill became manager he forgot
mat he had ever worked for . living,
San now he may have to work again.
ae was succeeded by Mr.. Pratt. With
10 thanks to Lewis, the Pope IS still
union mill.
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Crescent Growing

Crescent Lodge of the Amalgamated
is steadily growing, experiencing
quite a boost of membership recently.
It seems safe to assert, at the rate at
which new members are coming in,
that the Creek mill will be entirely I'M
ion by the first of the year.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-11-28

Huntington, w. Va, Nov. 2S.-(Spe-
cial. Another feature Of the coal
strike developed recently. There is a
movement on foot By the Brotherhoods
of Engineers and Firemen on the Ches-
apeake & Ohio to refuse to haul any
more coal from Cabin or Paint creeks
while the strike in this section is on
They held an Important meeting in
Huntington last night to devise some
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CHARLEY ICE HOME

& 3, charles Ice, prominent in local
labor Circles is home for q few days
from. YOUNGSTOWN, called to his home
81 WarWood by the illness Of his
yonng son. Harry. Mr.. Ice il foreman
az constrcution on the large power
oiant heinz erected ct Youngstown oy
the Mahoping Valley Electric Com.
nany. he reports things booming IN
thes Ohio city and says that the ANAL
g ssss Carpenters are thronging m
Is the RHotheEhood
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Il. ?. VAUGHN CONES

H. P. Vaughn, of New York, has
been appointed by the National Child
Labor Committee to take charge of
the campaign in West Virginia for a
new and modern child labor law which
it is hoped to place upon the statute
books of the state at the coming ses-
sion of the legislature. MI. Vaughn
will be in Wheeling shorty.
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A sTREErc AR oMIssIoN

The item OfsS10 from Che Street
Car Employees Vas inadveTfantly LEFT
out of the published report Of the item
lied receipts for the Labor Day tick
cts published in the Majority recently.
The total included it, but the line it.
self was lef out, and due apology for
the typographical error. is herewith
made.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-11-28
OFF ATLHE CREEK

Mills Nos. 1, 2, and at the Greek
are down to- line the two new mills
up that have been installed, and fur
naces Nos. and are. being rebuilt
Nine crews, about 80. It is expected
that work will be resumed in full in
the mill in week or ten days, with
two more mills than formerly.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-11-28
LaBeue Mill
Shut Down

The LaBelle plant of the American
Sheet and Tin mill shut down Thurs
day on account of shortage of bars,
and will resume again Monday, the
ten mills in full. They have been
working but eight.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-11-28
CAR MEN MAKE LAWS

y DElsion No. 1913. Street Railway
,ea~.piioyes. met at 1 a. m. Sunday and
NY IS.eQ upon the changes IN the local
is.a laws made to conform with the new
Sensational beneficiary laws. The
Da vas faKQRaEle II each Instance.
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The crown Of thorns Is upon the
brow Of the toiler. The cross of con-
tempt is upon his shoulders; yet he is
the savior Of the world.
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MIDWAY CAKE WALK.

Midway Branch of Local Belmont
County Socialist party, pulled off a
cake walk on the 18th, for the pur-
chase of literature, taking in SOTO
above expenses. All had good time.
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without courage there can never be-
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