Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-05-16


ing written pledge from Legislative
candidates.
Then the committee started In
with advice. They found fault, with
the laxity Of Federation officers in the
past, saying that whether the fault lay
with the officers or with the laws OF
the Federation they did not know,
but they complained of the failure OF
the Federation to grasp the grand op-
portunities that lie ebfore it. They
recommended that the President be
compelled to submit quarterly re-
port to the local unions, SO that every
| three months all the locals will know
what has been done, and they recon-
mended that the president visit every
local union in the state within year,
if the finances of the federation per
mitted it.
/ Delegate Mccain moved to accept
the report, but Delegate H. P. Corcor-
an moved to strike out that portion
putting the president to work. Then
followed discussion in which Dele
gates Higgins, Vessel, Pauley, WEIGH,
LaFlam, Sonderman, Sims, Hahne,
Salisbury, Yost, Caldwell, Corcoran,
Schroeder and Secretary Snyder en-
gagged, and the amendment was adopt
ed by a vote of 80 to IA.
Political Solidarity.
Political and industrial solidarity
for Labor were advocated in reso-
luton presented by Delegates Val
Reuther, Fred Reiber and Charles F.
Solder. The resolution, which ap-
pears in full in another column, as
serted that the workers were domin-
ant in numbers and that the only rea-
son that they were not in control of
! their lives Was because they were not
united. They were urged to unite on
the economic field in local unions, in
city central bodies, and to unite on the
political field in ''the working bodies,
and to unite on the political field in
"the working class political party, the
party that stands squarely upon the
class struggle" They urged the work
ers to end the division political caused
by voting for their friends" on old
party tickets, asserting that mo man
I is friend of ours If he is candidate
of a party whose platform and pEin-
ciples are not unQualifiedly in favor of
the working class, and that is not
managed and controlled entirely by
the working class"
This came up on Wednesday after
noon, but as the hour of adjournment
was at hand and as there were num-
Der of delegates who expressed de-
sire to speak upon the motion, the mat
| ter was made special order for 10:3O
o'clock Thursday morning.
The discussion was lengthy and at
times spirited. Opponents of the reso-
luton branded it as Socialist" and
the defenders accepted the defniation,
expressing their belief that the only
working class" party was the Social
list party. 1t passed decisive viva
voice vote, but several delegates ask
ed to be recorded as voting in opposi-
tionito it, and were SO recorded in the
| minutes.
A similar resolution was sent in by
Cameron Local No. 49,. Potters, was
non-concurred in by the committee on
the ground that it was put practically
repetition of the former resolution,
and this action was sustained by the
convention. The Cameron resolution
named the Socialist party definitely.
Support Building Crafts.
A resolution supporting the Building
trades of Wheeling in their fight
against the ACCOMMODATING of the
Market auditorium was unanimously
endorsed by the convention.
To Expedite Business.
with the desire to expedite bust
ness at future conventions and reduce
the financia. burden to affiliated locals
by reducing the time of the convention
session, the resolutions committee in
PRODUCED a resolution changing the
constitution to provide that all resolu-
lions be introduced in the convention
be sent to the secretary one week
prior to the convention. But the dele
as+as thonght that this might be con-
strued by some as preventing the pro
lper freedom Of delegates Of the rank
and file, and it was amended to allow
the resolutions to be brought in until
| 81 O'Clock, noon. Of the second day Of
| the session.
FOR seni-MontEIy Pay Days.
4 law compelling all employers Of
sha stafa to nay their employees ct