Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-10-31
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Editor Free Speech Department:
s. We are living today under the omni-
Korous and internecine system of
ICapftalisms A system fostered and
per petuated through the nuctous hypo
teEitical Syeophancy of high salaried,
profit seeking orators and writer's; byal
editors who peddle their opinions, prin-
ciple and brains to the publication or
interests, that they are at the time
being serving, ignoring entirely right
and wrong. By clergyman who no
klonger preahc the word of God, butt
who do all in their power to endanger@
the system and accept calls from an l
| other congregation in another commun-
ity ostensibly by the command of God,
| but in truth by the command of Mann
mon in order that they, too, may be-
Ieome an exploiter on larger scale.
By the politicians who are financed
kby the interests who exact their toll
[from the sweat and bloodsand honest
tpileTs whom they sScongTa tnlate just
fbefore election on their Intelligence
and patriotism.
These conditions are kept in exist
Ience through system of mapiluation
lon their part and through their super
/, ior intellectual ability, they keep the
vast majority of the workers divided
on questions OF race politics and reli-
gion. The United States of America
In all its existence never saw such an
| experiences. Of political discomfort and
industrial unrest as we of this gen.
/ Grafton are now experiencing, not
i even in the days of the preaching of
/ secession and I firmly q believe. that
I were the people of this day Of the
temper Of the people Of that day, we
would be having class war; bat the,
i doctrine of Socialism has, is and will
continue to offer the only hope to the.
|, workers, and teach them that war &C
/ complishes nothing, but misery and
fbloodshed and that they must control
/ and own all industry, publicly used,
and abolish private profit. Just as
long as there is private profit there
will be ultra-Want for the masses. So
cialism is the anti-thesis of Capitalism.
ICapitalism on the one hand cherishes
selfagrandizement, begets industrial
slavery. and encourages, dishonesty by
ulagizing the ncentivey profit. Under
4 the system Of capitalism, we elect very
frequently men who are honest men,
whosed character will stand the pene-
ftrating glare OF a search light; men
who have the interest, Of the people at
heart until they become a victim of
i the demon of profit Just SO long as
! we permit this system to flourish we
stand guilty of their crimes. In order.
to abolish misery, want and crime, we
| must first abolish profit, and it can
only be abolished by substituting the
cooperative commonw elath, which is
Socialism.
A SHOEMAKER.
| MAI RlTY-FIFTEEN
i Editor Free Speech:
! l have been requested by friend
to make a statement in regard to the
high handed method which is in use
and has been used for a number of
years in the soft coal region Of Mary
land, Pennsylvania and West Virginia,
/ to rob the laboring class of people.
] TO be brief l will call attention to
the overweight system used by the
| Consolidation Coal Co. in Their var
ious divisions, namely as follows, West
Virginia, IPennsylysnia, Maryland and
1 Kentdcky.ti IN
Their mine cars are supposed to bel
one-tOn cars, whereas they are two
ton cars II they hold pound. They,
(the miners) load two tons of coal
and are paid for one. Perhaps, not
taking the overweight and dockage
system in consideration, each and
every man who loads coal is required
| to put as much coal on every car of
coal he loads as the car will possibly
support, and in case his car is not
filed to its utmost capacity and over
| flowing, he is docked as follows; 1t
requires eight marks on eight cars
that are not loaded, as have explain
ed, according to the company's require
ments to constitute a dock. Therefore
when the bumper or tipple man gets
eight marks, marked up against any
man who loads coal, car is taken
from time, as you or or any one else
can readily see. it is an easy PROPOSE
ton for th company, as the miners
do not have check weighman or any
one at all to safeguard their rights. |
They must abide by the company's |
bumper or tipple mans decision for |
justice, which they do not get.
To illustrate this, certain young
man who is employed in one of their |
Offices in the greatest non-union sec
ton of this state, was requested to |
furnish the number o ftons of coal pro-
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