Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-07-11


men, has; with Wicke, appealed per
petually TO the police for protection,
and night and morning, sees the guar
dams of the law, sent by willing off
Gals, lowering in the vicinity Of the
packing room as though some awful
thing was apt to happen.
When the poor strike breakers
come out they are marshaled by the
three men who each seem to be man
aging this managerless plant-Wicke,
Meade and C. L. Dorer, and through
this protecting file, dumped on board
the street car During the day Bill
Dreamer, who poses as an electrician
about the plant, sits about on the Of
flee steps for all the world as though
he is the body guard to the office cat.
C. Burkett, order clerk foreman, also
assists in the management to the very
best of his very poor ability In
short, there are all sorts of people
about the place except working peo-
pie, and if the owners of the Imperial
want to weed out the $4,000 annual
leakage reported under the present
management, they will do well to hire
some real working people and fire
some OF the supposed managers.
Labor Behind Packers.
Wicke and Meade, in their present
i classifying, are trying ito make it ap-
pear that but two or three men in the
packing room are causing the trouble
and that there is no real union among
them. This is simply false. In all the
other packing rooms of all the glass
houses in this whole district all the
packers belong to Glass Packers
Union No. 1858, A. F. of L., and all
the packers in the Imperial room be-
longed until Wicke, violating SOL
emn, promise he had made in the
presence of witnesses, began dis
charging them for no offense except
their unionism. Tie present lockout
is directed against the union by
Wicke and Meade, and the union is
supported by the Ohio Valley and
Belmont Trades and Labor Assem-
blies, and, if it is not speedily settled
will be appealed to the Ohio and
West Virginia state labor bodies, and
to the A. F. of L. direct.
Unjustified Arrest.
Last Friday, William w. Andrews
and James Dorf, the two union pick
cts, talked with foreigner who was
going to take work as a strike break
err. They urged him to get other en-
ployment, and he told them to get
job for him. This they could not do
and he went on into the packing
room. On Monday Dorf was treated
to the surprise of being arrested On a
warrant charging him with attempted
assault and threatening this same
foreigner Not an angry word was
passed, and yet he was held for this
ridiculous charge under 500 bond,
which he furnished. The trial will
be before Mayor Wassman at Z o.
clock Monday evening, Attorney
Schertzer appearing for the defend
ant. SThe boys consider this high
handed and unjustifiable arrest an
evidence of the desperate condition
the openshoppers find themselves in.
Four Miles for Boys.
Wicke and Meade show prospect
i've strike breakers stack of alleged
, applications from experienced pack
lers who want the jobs at the Imper-
ial, but these same gentlemen climbed
four miles of hill ON a hot day last
week to try to induce two farmer
boys to come to town and take the
jobs-two boys who know absolutely
nothing of packing. This would seem
to wipe out the claim that experience
ed packers are on the way to take
the jobs, for surely Wicke and Meade
do not like work so well that they
would be tramping the hills on hot
day for fun. These two boys had
promised to come to work, but when
the union men explained conditions
to them they refused the employment,
and Wicke and Meade spent the
morning in an Intellectual attempt to
induce them to scab. They live about
four miles back of Bellaire and
Wicke and Meade went to their
homes, showing the unusual spectacle
of employers paying a social visit to
employees.
Koontz Scab Hunter.
Ed Koontz has the reputation now
of being a scab hunter. While at
work for his master the other day
this slave was cut severely by some
broken glass. Being unable to work,
the management could not very well
get out of paying him for his lost