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Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-04-03
Doctor Assaulted
In Mayors Office

DR.. Charles A. Wingerter was as.
saulted by DR.. Geo. w. Otto in the
office of the mayor and board of con
troll last Monday morning. The as
sault was entirely unprovoked, as
nothing whatever had been. said that
would justify or even explain the at
tack. Dr. Wingerter was not serious
~ injured, and Others interfered be-
fore the affair advanced beyond the
one bloW3's struck him by Otto.
DR.. Wingerter, accompanied by Sec
rotary Sinks of the local Associated
Charities, had called upon Mayor Kirk
to endeavor to induce him to keep the
promise to have the relief funds sub
scribed by citizens distributed to the
Hood sufferers under the direction of
the Associated Charities. 1t seems
that somehow the distribution got un-
der theSnominal direction at least of
Otto, one of the Ogden-H askins- Otto
trlumV1rate, and the Charities support
ers inferred that the help was being
distributed where it would do the most
political good.
Otto seems to have first started for
Secretary Sinks, and then, directing
his attention to DR.. Wingerter, said:
You're the man I'm after; you've
been talking about me-"
Anything have said, replied DR..
Wingerter, will be just as true after
you hit me as before
The blow was struck as DR.. Winger-
ter stood with his hands in his pockets.
William Terry, who was present, grab
ped the assallapt, and just then Mayor
Kirk came into the outer room from
his private Office.
Mayor" said Dr. Wingerter, If
there is one place in the city where
the humblest citizen should be safe
from assault, it is in the office of the
mayor"
Mayor Kirk. however. did not inter
fere. beyond advocating peace
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-04-03
Meeting
IS Postponed

The special meeting of the Ohio Val
ley Trades and Labor Assembly, called
for last Sunday to discuss ways and
means for organizing the unorganized
workers of this section, was called off
on account of the flood. !
No definite date has been set, as the
executive officers thought the matter
had better be left with the Assembly
delegates. Last Sunday was selected
because it was the fifth Sunday of the
month, which meant that there was
no meeting of any other labor organi-
cation scheduled for that day. AS
there are many meetings on every
other Sunday this was quite an adj
vantage toward securing full attend
ance.
1t is the. desire to have all the dele
gates from all the locals present, to-
gether with all business agents and
organizers, and any others who are in
terested in organizing the wage work
ers. 1t is the intention to plan a far
reaching! whirlWind campaign, prob.
ably with street corner and shop meet
ings, and the distribution of thousands
of pieces of literature in the hope that
the working men and women of this
valley who are not now in any labor
union will see the advantage Of unit
ing with each other for the advance
ment of the interests and the improve.
ment of the conditions of all.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-04-03
/. SUGAR PLANT "SPEEDERS"

Salt Lake City, March ) During
the effort made before the Legislature
to secure an eight.hour day for the
employees in the big sugar plants many
interesting things were brought to
light. The factories work their en-
ployes twelve hours day and have
a speeding up" system in order to
get the maximum amount of work
from every employee. These factories
also have bonus system, through
which 10 per cent is added to the
wages providing the output for a
twenty-four run exceeds a certain
number of sacks. For this toll the bulk
of the employees receive the munifi-
cent wage of 18 cents an hour. The
skilled workers are paid as follows ::
Firemen,, % cents an hour; sackers,
sewers, and truckers, 20 cents an
hour The Utah sugar plants are large
ly owned by the sugar trust. Another
iniquitous plan in vogue is that the
farmers have to wait a month for
pay for their beets, and the employees
have to wait a month for their wages.
AS a matter of fact the system of do
ing business in these factories is one
which requires very little capital, the
farmers and employees being COMPEL
ed to wait until the finished product
is marketed.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-04-03
Must Restore RIGHTS
OF West Virginiians
Pea efuny Or!

That the situation in West Virginia
as 4 result of the stripping from the
naople all their constitutional rights is
far more serious than most people
ina CINE. who depend for their informa-
zion upon reading the capitalist pa
, pers. is shown in letter received in
Hohndsyille from a teacher in Kama
wha county.
In Kanawha county all state laws
have been wiped out by an executive
order issued by the governor at the
command of the coal .barons, and mill
tary autocracy substituted, under
which the miners have absolutely no
guarantees such as even the writer's
of the constitution demanded. AS a
result, 50 year old Mother Jones is
held by the military thugs and half
dozen United Mine Workers organic
ers with. her The whole plan has
been to keep thesamine workers ter
rorized. The plaH' has failed, and
everything points that the violence. O.
the past year will be a balmy summer
breeze beside the storm that is brew
ing for the future.
The Letter.
Following is the letter:
East Bank, w. Va, 3-16, 1913
Dear Koontz
II am sending you a copy of the La
Dor Argus, which although somewhat
violent at times, has never yet been
proven in a misstatement
The Autocracy has the former, edi-
tor in the bull pen. but the new editor
is much rawer in his announcements
than the other ever was
| hope you will help to circulate the
truth in your ghbofhood
Il have been in the center of the dis
trict since last September and have
yet to hear of one case where any re-
sistanee was ever made TO arrest by
the proper authorities, so you see
there is no excuse for the usurping
martial law or military court.
Our district elected Socialistic JUS
tees of peace and constab1es in
November and the interests know that
they will give the people justice if
the scab-herding militia men are
taken away from here.
Have your newspapers ever told
YOU that?
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-04-03

| The coal barons have not yet realiz.
ed that the people will rule by force
if their ballots are no longer honored
Have your papers ever told you that
the mine guard deputies flegalized
thugs) are employed to outrage all
sense of freedom, and when the sheriff
or justice of peace failed to attempt
TO curtaI them but on the other
hand aided and abbetted them; and
when the people mot miners alone)
saw that there was no law, then and
| then only did they take the law into
their own hands and secure control
by force, as they had been downtrod-
den by force? >
Did the papers ever tell you that
asst June when the mine guard, String
er, was killed, that 26 other pug-faced
desperadoes were also killed, and that
it was to save the lives of other mine
guards, who had so little regard for
any ones rights, that the militia was
rushed in? The trouble would have
been over long ago and all outlawry
at an end, if the people had been left
in control.
Have your SNUG conservative pa
pers dared to tell YOU that when Fred
Bobbitt, the ':.bookkeeper" (?) gunman
was, killed last month, there were
thirteen other mine guards killed?
Beaten at their own game.
And then the militia was rushed in
with its unconstitutional military court
to save the system.
We can see gatling gun trained
on us most any hour of the day by
the corporation thugs; we can feel our
constitutional rights denied, but. can
men who are not bluffed by the ter
rors of labor in the bowels of the
earth, be bluffed by mere hand full
of bullets?
Have you not yet learned that the
sherfff's Baldwin thugs shot into Hol-
ley Grove camp with the deliberate
intention of causing the miners to
resist and be massacred? But it did
not pan out that way, and the tin
horned johnnies were rushed in to
save the legalized things.
Might has assumed the guise of
right in Cabin Creek district, and will
remain so as long as the people pas
sively submit. But peace is not SO
sweet.
Can't you see a smile? The Ameri-
cans fought once to. secure freedom
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-04-03
State Fair
Still Going
NfR ~N~ -


The flood left in its wake rumor
that the West Virginia State Fair was
no more. This was probably caused
by the reflection that the great stage
of water has caused vast loss which
the State Fair Association would not
care to replace in view Of the fact that
the state is going dry in a year any
way. But the Fair will blossom this
year as in the past.
Secretary George Hook, in talking to
a Majority man Thursday. said: q
have just completed a thorough inves-
tigation Of the conditions on the
grounds and have found that the loss,
while severe is not nearly so great
as we feared. All necessary repairs
and improvements will be made, and
the Fair will be in bloom this year,
bigger, better than ever"
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-04-03

tice for brutal force. Avert warfare
by establishing justice.
| had intended to write but a short
note explaining why l sent the paper,
but my pen and enthusiasm lead me
on. E
Ny school term is finished in two
weeks, but no person with any sense
of fairplay could leave here in this
crisis. So ! am afraid 1 will stay here
during the summer.
Sincerely, ~
PRICE w. WILLIAMS.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-04-03
Electricians
Get Increase

Wheeling district electricians. com
prising Local No. al. International
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers,
have been granted an increase of 10
cents per hour, taking effect April 1st
All Wheeling district employers, com.
prising the Electrical Contractors As.
sociation, have signed the new agree.
ment, which will run for two years,
and thereafter until notice of desire
tor change is served by one of the
parties. An arbitration clause is In
cluded which provides for the AMIGA
BILE adjustment of any dispute that
might arise. The wage increase is
from so cents to go cents per hour
From every standpoint, it is one OF
the best wage agreements ever drawn
I'D in this city
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-04-03

from oppression have they become 50
spineless that they won't do It again?
Mother Jones, Paulsen, John Brown,
ct al, are but the noisy testing fac
tors in an organization of thousands
of sober. industrious, peaee-loying men
but mark Ttle Word-they will have
Justice.
Use your influence to get them JUS
tice. The Supreme Court must recon
slider some decisions, or -
Think you that; when twenty-eight
men can destroy fourteen of thirty
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-04-03

two hardened r4ffians, armed with a
machine gun, AND capture and destroy
that same machine; think you that
these same men organized twenty-five
hundred strong can be over-awed by
all the tinsh0rns that the state can
produces onc6 fhfeif only way is as
certained.
l make a prediction, Restore and
uphold our constitutional right or ere
the next snow fall have them restor-
ed by violent bloodhshed."
Do what you can to substitute jus
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-04-03
STATEMENT OF THE OWNER
SHIP, MANAGEMENT, ClRCULA.
TON, ETC. OF THE WHEELING
MAJORITY.

Published weekly al Wheeling, W.
Va, required by the Act of August "a,
1912. Editor, managing editor, bust
ness manager, Walter B. Hilton,
Wheeling, W. Va, publisher, Majority
Company, Wheeling, W. Va, Owners,
stockholders owning one. percent or
more Of stockl Walter B. Hilton, Ohio
Valley Trades and Labor Assembly;
known mortgages, bondholders and
other security holders holding / per-
cent or more Of total amount of bonds,
mortgages and other securities, Ger
mania Half Dollar Savings Bank,
Wheeling, W. Va
MAJORITY COMPANY,
Walter B. Hilton, president y.
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this 26th day of March, 1918.
VIM. I. Bradshaw, Notary Public.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-04-03
H0d Carriers
UUItu nAN Inf
( Out On Strike

Following a refusal of contractors to
pay a wage> increase of from $3.50 to
So per day, Wheeling Hodcarriers,
members of Locals 81 and Il, struck
Tuesday.
Six contractors have signed: Philip
Grimm, Geo. D. Ebright, Geo. W. Pet
ticord, W. R. Clifford, E. K. Bear, and
at the City Hospital.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-04-03
MOUNDSVlLLE PRINTERS
HELPED BY ASSEMBLY

Moundsville Trades and Labor As
sembly met in special session Sunday,
March 23rd, to hear the report of the
arbitration committee in regard to the
Printers question. After some discus
sion, the Moundsville Journal and
Moundsville Echo were declared unfair
to organized labor, and the men de-
cided to make strong fight for the
Printers.
The Assembly received the charter
from the A. F. of L. this week.
Many union men and sympathizers
have stopped their subscription to the
unfair papers.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-04-03
| DECATUR NEWS.

Decatur, Ill, March 1.-TWO volun-
teer organizers of the American Fed.
GRAFTON Of Labor have been successful
In organizing several new unions dur
ing the past month. The latest one
Is the cement workers. All the cement
workers became members, and the
cement contractors are not antagoniz.
ing the organization. The stationary
firemen also viii be organized.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-04-03

EMn lLAyORErY ID headquarters for
unteA labeled eur1 suitable for print
.nx e1 SarA1 y noW1paper.. etc 4
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-10-18

you're going further than Carcass
onne Junction, I'll get off there. And
either I'll walk to the hotel or hire
another trap"
'Whyw exclaimed the lady, 'are
you bound for Carcasonne House?
So am L. -.-.-.
''In that case," said Saterlee ele-
gantly, well go the whole hog to-
gether.'' ~
"Quite So" said the lady primly.
you'd ought to make Carcasonne
House by midnight, - said the pro-
prietor. 70.
"Heavens!" exclaimed the lady.
"And if we don't make it by mid
night?" ~
1--WE will by one or two o'clock"
The lady became very grave.
"Of course" she said, ut can't be
helped. But it would be ever so much
nicer if we could get in before mid
night" .-.:
81 take your point, ma'am," said
Saterlee. 81 can promise nothing. It's
all up to the horse"
"Of course" said the lady, at
doesn't really matter. But, and she
spoke little bitterly, several times
in my life my actions and my mo-
tives have been open to misconstruc-
ton, and they have been miscon-
strued. l have suffered, sir, much"
well, ma'am," said Saterlee, my
reputation as a married man and a
father of many children is mixed up
in this, too. If we are in late-or out
late rather-and there's any talk
guess can quiet some of it. rather
guess l can"
The proprietor entered the CONVEX
sation with an insinuating wedge of
a voice.
81 don't like to mind other folks
business" he said, 'but if the lady is
fretting about bein' out all night with
a total stranger, 1 feel it my dooty
IL
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-10-18

dl edcn OLu6r anu laugh. 1uey WSIC
painfully embarrassed.
Saterlee brought down the whip
sharply upon the bony flank of the
old horse. But not for a whole min
ute did the sensation caused by the
whip appear to travel to the ancient
mares brain. Not till reaching deep
puddle did she seem suddenly aware
of the fact that she had been whip
ped. Then, however, she rushed
through the puddle, covering Safer
lee and the lady with mud, and, hav-
ing reached the other side, fell once
more into a hating walk.
Once more the road ran under
shallow of water. And once more the
old mare remembered that she had
been whipped, and made rush for
it. Fresh mud was added to that
which had already dried upon them
by the dry miracle of the air.
"She's ought to have been motor
boat" said Saterlee, the mud which
had entered his mouth gritting un-
pleasantly between his teeth.
The mare rushed through another
puddle. H.. ...
The lady laughed. "Please don't
bother to hold her." she said. 81 don't
mind-now"
81 guess your dress amt really
hurt" commented Saterlee. = re-
member my old woman-Anna-
a brown silk that got a mud bath,
and came through all right"
This is an old rag, anyway" said
the snowy lady, who was still snowy
in spite of a wart-like knot of dried
mud on the end of her nose. And
she glanced at her spattered but
graceful and expensive white linen
and hand-embroidered dress.
well, 1 can see one, thing" said.
Saterlee, that you've made up your
mind to go through this experience
7 L L
The Lamar register., 1913-03-12
House Of the Dalai Lama,

The Dalai Lama's late temporary
residence at Kalimpong, the Bhutan
Durbar house, is now occupied by
Raja Ujen Dorjee's sister, the Kazini
Wangmola. The Lama's three rooms.
the audience chamber, sitting room
and bedroom, are just as he left them.
Hundreds OF butter lamps lie about
on tables and mantel shelves and, the
windows being closed, the smell of
rancid butter is sickening. A large
shrine is being erected in the Lama
bedroom. This room will thus be-
come a kind of holy of HOLES in the
estimation of the northern Buddhists.
The dais in the audience chamber is
beautifully painted in Tibetan fash
ion, with a gorgeous colored silk CO u
opy overhead.
Colored Chinese silk cancpies were
The Lamar register., 1913-03-12
Took Him at His Word.

A negro bricklayer in Macon. Ca.
was lying down during the noon hour.
sleeping in the hot sun. The clock
struck one. the time to pick up his
hod again. He rose. stretched. and
grumbled: 81 wish wuz daid. Tain
nothin' but wuk. wuk. frum mawnin'
tell night"
Another negro. q story above. heard
the complaint and dropped brick on
the grumbler's head.
Dazed. he looked up and said:
DE Lawd can stan no Jokes. lie
5es' takes ev'ything in yearnist''
The Lamar register., 1913-03-12

also hung above his bed and couch.
There was also some fine European
furniture in all the rooms. The name
of each room was written on the Intel
outside in bold cursive Tibetan char
acters.-Japan Advertiser.
The Lamar register., 1913-03-12
Nell?"

Nel1?"
Il needn't tell you about my life;
that other life on the stage"
Not n word. You begin to live to-
day new life as my wife. Mrs. The
ophilus Sykes"
Her body swayed forward and she
buried her face on his shoulder. A
little ray of sunlight falling through
the window made her fair hair appear
like a halo above her pretty head.
The Lamar register., 1913-03-12
Easily Affected.

IT understand Jigson is very sus'
ceptible to intoxicating drinks.
Yes, indeed Sometimes a mere
Whit out of bottle will make his
antira System rainice"
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1913-12-04
School Entertainment

One of the most interesting
school entertainments that has
ever been given in Sedgwick Coun-
ty was witnessed in school District
No. 8 on Thanksgiving Eve. A
large. audience was in attendance
and every one on the program
showed they had made careful and
painstakirg preparation and as is
always the case ina successful pro-
gram. much of the credit belongs to
the teacher and Miss Olive Pound,
who is teaching her first year in this
District, is to be congratulated.
After the program lunch box
supper was served. netting the
district S23.oO and this amount is
to be used for Library purposes
for this district.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1913-12-04
Drag The Roads

Probably no County in Colorado
have had the roads put into better
condition than has Sebgwick Coun-
ty during the past year, but on
account of the heavy hauling of
beets and other loads and the dry
weather. the roads have become
badly cut up. Immediately after
the present rain, they should be
thoroughly dragged and we are in
hopes that every one who has this
matter in charge will see to it that
drags are put to work Immediate
ly. 1t does little good to build
good roads if they are not kept up.
Don't, let this opportunity pass.
The continual dragging of the
roads after storms from now until
next spring will make boulevards
of our roads for the coming year.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1913-12-04
Bazaar and Cafeteria Lunch
In the west room of Citizens National Bank Bldp.
Saturday, December 18th.
Aprons and fancy article. for sale by the
Ladies of the Congregational Church.
Julesburg Irrigation District

The annual election for Direct
ors of the Julesburg Irrigation
District was held ON Tuesday.
w. II. Brandt for District No. 2
for the regular term of 3 years
and Frank Sherman for District
No. 3 for years to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation CT j. n.
Buchanan, were elected. This
will leave the board with the same
Dictatorship as for the past year.
The District is getting in better
shape all of the time. The warrant
call published this week shows
Ftliat tie tsedsurer IS calling for
warrants issued as late as April of
the present year and with the levy
made this year the District will
practically be on cash basis by
1915. Superintendent Bush tells
us that in addition to having run
in water to thoroughly wet up the
District this fall that he has about
II feet of water in the reservoir
and that he eXcepts to put in the
full "a feet this winter so that
there will be an ample supply of
water for irrigation for the coming
year Extensive improvements
are being made on the system all
of the time in the, way of strength
thening dams putting in concrete
and steel headgates.
The books of the District will
have been audited. checked up and
put upon strickly business basis
by the first of January. Bond
men and other financiers tell us
that the District is one of the best
at the present time from their
standpoint and we predict that
within 3 wears. the Julesburg Ir-
rigation District will be rated as
A. No. l in every respect.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1913-12-04
Mutual Association To Prevent
Farm Loss

The progressive farmers of this Sec
tion are fast becoming interested in
better farm produce, finer live stock and
the eradiction of all diseases of animals,
plants, small grains and trees. Progress
is the slogan, but progressiveness in
farming like progressiveness in any
thing comes only with ability to forsee
dangers and ward them off. "An ounce
of prevention is worth pound of cure''
remains one of the best adages write n
Farm progress in this country shows
that the farmer who forsee and pre-.
vents is making good and every cent
he spends in prevention pays dollars of
reward. The methods by which thous-
ands of dollars Of farm loss can an
nually be saved are told of in treatise
recently published by The Farmers
Mutual Preventive Association, Learn
ed, Kansas, an association organized
to distribute to farmers who are pro-
gresslve and want to prevent losses.
well tried methods for preventing
practically all diseases known in this
section to animals, plants and trees.
The pamphlet is sent for 10 cents.
practically the printing costs and tells
the best methods to prevent such farm
troubles as diseases of poultry, small
egg production, poultry pests, hog
cholera, soilsterility, smut in all grains
yellow berries in wheat, tick bearing
rodents, scabies lip and leg liberation,
tuberculosis. slanders, over acid or
alkaline soil, grasshoppers, chinch bugs,
etc. adv,
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1913-12-04
Second Number
Entertainment Course
At the High School Auditorium
Monday Evening December the 8th
DIR. HEDLEY
Irish Cheer
Under Auspices of w. c. T.U..
Opera House, December the 5th
Home talent play under direction of Miss Smith

against dry rot.' A full church
CREATED the DR.. ut the evening
sefvices and his inspiring address
was listened to with great atten.
ton. Surely in many hearts the
flame of Missionary enthusiasm
will burn more brightly than in
the past. The W. II. NJ. S. meets
with Mrs Gillett this week Thurs
day. A good progrs m is being
prepared and Mrs. Gillett is ex-
pecting large number. The
Ladies Aid will meet with Mrs.
Ewing on Thursday llth.
Miss Smith who has been pre-.
pairing the contestants for the
Demorest contest will superintend
the giving of Il home talent play
on Friday. Miss Smith has been
very faithful and successful in her
efforts to help the Temperance
Cause. Let us now show our a.
probation of her work.