Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-06-13
Anew Remarks
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to puDnSnHg news IN the interests OF LABOR
the Openshoppers deny this?
The conspiracy manifested itself as early as five years
ago. when the financial powers looted the treasury of the
CITY of Wheeling out of the interest on proceeds
of the bond ISSUE the being deposited in the Dollar
Savings and Trust Company bank controlled by B.
Walker Peterson, and where Of still remains. Will
they deny this?
The conspiracy manifested itself again when the
financial powers backed the big carpenter contractors in
the attempted destruction of the carpenter unions Of this
Valley, scheme by which every contractor who partic
pated violated his solemn pledge and proved that he
without the honor that is said to prevail among
thieves Will they deny this?
The conspiracy manifested itself again when the in
terests carefully led the Plumbers Union to it's destruc
ton Will they deny this?
All Of this was before the Auditorium scheme raised
itself above the horizon. Then came that scheme ALI
the poppydoode talk about joining this plan for the
public good too thin to stand scrutiny The plan
which the Big Business interests offered to the city
plan that not OF them would have accepted in his
personal capacity We offered at the time to make the
proposition to any member of the Board Of Trade
committee the Market Auditorium directors and it
still without takers. They took market house that was
paying the citizens Of Wheeling So 500 year, and furnish
g by Of cheap stall rent the opportunity for pro
ducers to into direct contact with the consumers and
they wiped out that 500 and will increase stall rents
until the farmer will not be able to spread his goods before
the people They looked only for their good: the
elimination Of the direct purchasing that they the
less mddemen could fasten themselves with tighter
grip upon the bent backs of Wheeings workers. could
bring crowds to Wheeling and thus sell more goods
and could pay themselves per cent year while they
doing six per cent that should have gone to the
people of this city, but which must be taken from
them There is other place from which to take it.
So their hands would not have been clean even had
they obeyed the clause which stipulated that the building
should be erected by union abothe only guarantee that
the workers would not be robbed of the ptance they
possibly get from the erection OF the structure But
the first place they had their city solicitor Robert Adj
dlean insert after Union labor shall be empoyed the
additional Words as far practicable, which is evil
dence enough to blind deaf mute that they anticipated
just what going to happen and wanted the legal de-
Tense that the contractor when he offered to employ union
men under non-union conditions had made legal en-,
wanting it is furnished by the fact that the Market Au-
dtorium Company had the W. W. Wood Co, write the
company letter in which he made legal promise to live
up to this wobbly clause.
AS to the granting of the contract for the wood work
The Auditorium Openshoppers claim that the contract
given to firm (which stood the same bass all
other firms This is direct and known falsehood. The
W. w. Wood company the only contracting firm in
the city considered unfair by organized labor It the
only firm in the city that not employing ONE UNION
MAN. 1t declared unfair only after years of broken
promises it's part after years of persistent and steady
breaking Of union labor contracts Any other contracting
firm would have been satisfactory to the union men, be-
cause all other firms could have Obeyed the union labor
clause and had 6beyed such clause whenever there
one in contract accepted by them= The W. W.SWodd
company the only firm considered unfair and the
Openshoppers passed by all the other contractors to get
this They explain that the Wood bid the lowest
It is explained that the FIST set of bids found the J. W.
Beltz Sons Company the lowest but for some unaccoun
able reason cog having apparently slipped somewhere
these bids all rejected and secured, in
which it conveniently discovered that the Betz bid
had been increased and the Wood bid thus made the
lowest
The htelligencer says union have not been dis
eliminated against The inference is that the who
compose the directorate Of the Market Auditorium
pany have been friendly at least not antagonistc
Labor The truth ought to be told about this The daily
papers cannot tell it. they would lose advertisers the law
yers cannot tell it. they would lose cents and So the
Majority must tell it.
The company's directors include Fred J. Fox, H. C.
Franzhei, Geo. w Lutz e. G. Ogden Geo. E. stifel and
William F. Stone. Fred Fox is banker, and such
is not direct employer Of labor but if anybody what