Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-04-17
We KlLI NOW HAVE
A Felv Remarks

BIZ WALTER B. HILTON

ALL It is hollow mockery He offers the nine hour day
when 100000 miners in other states working eight
hours He offers the miners the right to elect check
weighman If majority demand it. and the right to deal
where they please Both of these rights guar
aneed" by the state laws Of West Virginia The miners
enjoy neither because any who dares to advocate
either is Immediately discharged, beaten up by
guards or BOTH The only thing that will give the
miners the guarantee of either right is the right to form
unon and through their regularly elected representa-
tVe treat with the employers Governor Hatfield does
not offer them this.
The newspaper stories that the coal operators NAV
be induced to concede to the Governors proposition is
unaduterated rot The coal barons and prosttuted
yers and editors could not possibly have cooked p pro-
position more favorable to themselves.
It is sincerely to be hoped that the United Mine Work
ers will cease parleyng with governor who has already
betrayed the confidence Of the workers who elected him
the strength of his promise of friendship and go ahead
with the work of organizing and striking the entire coal
fields Of the state of West Virginia When there strike
trouble at every coal tpple in this state and there
not enough yellow legged mtamen go around and
when is costing the state about 100000 to keep the
miners in abject slavery any workers suffered
then the people OF this state will awaken to the fact that
the whole state government including its governor and
judges being used to swell the private profits of heart
less gang Of Industrial pirates who do live West
virginia and who have right to the ownership of
is coal than has any reader of this paper.
The twenty thousand miners in the New River field
should be called out Immediately the workers in the Fair
mont field next and then all the mine workers this state
With 10000 actual workers out strike and third Of
the population of the state most directly affected the sit
aon will compel immediate adjustment federal inter
vtntlOn.
It will also compel every paper in West Virginia and
the nation to give publicity to the true situation
situation that without parallel in the history of this
country Never before have such highhanded acts of
piracy gone long unwhpped of justice John w. Brown
Charles H. Boswell George I'll. Parons and others have
been as and bull pens for months and even denied the
privilege OF seeing their families or lawyers when their
only crime has been to their right to free speech in be-
half of the oppressed workers Of the Mines Mother
jones' bowed with her eighty years. has been dragged in
and out of arca court By bres young enough to be her
erin off
could goto the jaws of death For in the regions where
she carried the light of agitation and organization to the
helpless and hopeless workers. had been beaten to
death and their corpses thrown into rivers allowed
rot in the bottoms of ravnesfor doing the thing
John Brown expects five years. and explains that they
could not be sent up for day under the civil law
Do you realize what this means? It means that they
could not be sent to the petentiary legally so they
to be sent Illegally It means that every law of this state
United States is being swept aside because mpedes the
coal barons in their wild grab for profits It that
the governor and the courts are being used.
Do any Of you think that this go on? Don't you
know that it such conditions that gave the Socialist
vote increase Of 317 per cent this state the last
eecona gain greater than in any other state in the
union? Do you imagine-you business men, you profes-
sona men, that the gen be showed back in the bottle
IF you believe this you are deaf and dumb and blind.
Rome its power crushed the greatest working class
belion in all history and lined the roadWays for CHASTITY
miles with the cruced bodies of the horny handed fol
lowers of Spartacus, Rome erucifed Christ-but
Rome ded Monarchy burned and imprisoned and hang
ed American republicans but Monarchy died here and the
Republic was born Slavery murdered John Brown and
his followers but the spark that he threw kinded con-
fagraton that burned chattel slavery out of America
So who are not deaf or dumb or blind know that
history will repeat ITSELF that the march of mankind up
ward and onward cannot be stayed by crnnally weak
report of mine commission that united the three
OF oppression, the church, the army and the laws cannot
be stayed by reaconary decisions from biased judges
by orders from servie governor These weapons have
been throughout the ages to bolster up oppression and
exploitation, but spite of them the masses have acur
ed for themselves democracy. And by this democracy
they will take everything elsN from their masters.
There is but one thing left tb these masters-the
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