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Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-06-26
Box Maker, Scabs
Assault Two Men

One of the most brutal assaults re-
corded in police annals in this city
occurred last Saturday evening north
of the Pan Handle traction Office near
the Top Mill when Edw. Guthrie and
Leslie Williams, two "scabs" at the
Martins Ferry box factory. assaulted
three former employees, OF the box
factory who had back bone enough to
come out for better conditions and
who accepted employment as linemen
for the Wheeling Traction company
in order to make an honest living
(Which the other two "scabs" cannot
boast of doing at the present time) :.
Williams drew gun and handed it to
Guthrie. while he, Williams, used a
large knife. The Hnemen were Charles
Liphardt, Frank Carpenter and V. c.
Baker, all hard working men.
Scab Held to Grand Jury.
They were all arrested and after
hearing the case Guthrie was held to
await the action of the next grand jury
which meets In September, his bond
was fixed at. 5000 and friend came
to his rescue and put up the bond,
thereby getting him out. Leslie Will
liza ms, the other scab, and liphardt
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-06-26

who was protecting his rights, were
each fined S. and costs and paid their
desirable citizens. They had been over
to this city for booze and had two
jugs OF liquor on them when arrested.
A Narrow Escape.
1t was later learned from an eye
witness that Bob Edwards, Of Martins
Ferry, narrowly escaped assault, and
perhaps DEATH at the hands OF the
two sachs but an hour before. He
was walking past the place ON his way
down from Warwood where he had
been working when the two men were
seen sneaking behind him, one TAX
ig the gun from his hip pocket and
placing it In his side coat pocket and
the other gettig out his knife. Ed
wards never knew they were behind
him. For some reason the men chang
ed their minds and did not make an at
tack.
The Injunction.
In passing, it might be remarked
that Judge Safer, at Columbus, issued
an injunction against these peaceful
men to restrain" them from doing
anything to the scabs who stagger
aroud with jugs of booze and deadly
weapons
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-06-26
Min e Strike Will
Break Out Agai1 :,


j The mine strike in West Virginia
was never settled" in spite OF the
declaration Of Governor H. d. Hatfield
and his friends. In the Cabin and
Paint Creek valleys the men are pre-
pairing to strike again and this is
liable to occur at any moment. Their
officials are trying to restrain them,
but they are rapidly getting beyond
control. And when they strike they
will be joined by about $4,000 men in
the New River held, where the opera
tors nave been discharging men for
joining the union.
The situation is so acute that the
Labor Argus" the Charleston paper
edited by Charles H. Boswell the man
whom Governor Glasscoek Jailed and
whom Governor Hatfield permitted to
stay in jail until recently, could cali
strike with any one issue of the
paper. Board Member Haggerty has
brought suit against Boswell for libel,
but Boswell has the hearts of the
me workers, and they are now pass
Ing resolutions demanding of the ma
tonal Office that Haggerty be recalled.
No, the strike is not settled, and
it will not be settled untilit is settled
tight. The fake settlement forced
down their threats by Hatfield would
OF stick even had the operators car
l.ed it out, but so despit liable are they
in their tactics that thef refused even
these small concessiony, which were,
liter all, but obeying the law. They
! re continuing to Violate the law.
The operators will back down, OF
Vest Virginia will have the greatest
Industrial war this country ever be
held. and that soon.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-06-26
Pollack' !, Loci Out
The Stogie Makers

Garfield Local No l, .Stogie Max
ers, are on strike at the Pollock fac
troies. The contention is on the stogie
known as Grown" The men contend
that on account of the stock and handl-
ing there SHOULD be revision of the
price list, which would advance their
pay from $412ls per 1000 to s425.
This request was made of the two fac
tories affected, Pollack's and Miller's,
and an offer of arbitration made at
the same time.
At Miller's the arbitration offer was
accepted and the men remained at
work pending the final decision, which
is to be retroactive, but at Pollack's
no concession of this mature was So
cured and the men quit.
However, conferences have been
held, and hope is held out that an
adjustment can be reached without
great delay.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-06-26
Performance Punctures
Prediction Promises

You might trade chief OF police
candidate for a city treasurer, but the
same old police force will be-why,
certainly!
Just aus we told you fifty times, and
possibly more, promises of politician
at the present day do not count for
much. In an address to large num-
Der Of candidates at Baker and Nc
Collock streets before election, Thorn
as Leyland had the following to say:
There is but one man on the enire
city police force that have promised
a Job and that is Charlie Miller.
hummer" Walker will not be on the
force"
Look over the appointments and see
if the new chief should belong to a
Sunday school. At the VigiIant engine
house he also made similar promises
that hummer" Walker would be neck
ed after he bumped DOC" Otto, OF
the double o ring, but old hummer is
still on the force.
Here dF0 IuO OIH0S IAdI 6Ot hANhOO
off: Detective Fred Frazer, considered
by many the best all round man on the
entire force, who voted for Ingram
at the primaries; Charles Miller, a
policeman with a good record, who
also got necked for voting for ingram;
FITZGERALD, policeman and Plant and
Fullerton, patrol drivers, and Louis
Buchwald, the capable might heuten-
ant.
Many Disappointed.
The new men will be Chief How
ard Hastings (chief of detectives), a
new plum, which in part means second
chief of police. Dave Cleary, VINO
worked for the Republican party, you
bet, as did also Tom Kelly, who was
kicked off once before, and the two
men will don the plain clothes Of the
squad. Arthur Riddle and Ed Thesis
are the patrol drivers and Tom Ar
rington (colored) is now the new am
bulance driver the new officers are
Albert Custer. Charles Biekerton, Guy
Groves and Edward McClatchey, all
from the ranks of the workers, and we
sure congratulate them for landing the
plums, the best of luck be yours. But
oh, those promises! There were about
so gentry so disappointed that they
have not recovered yet.
II a Now, Then.
Now, Tom, how about the gambling
devices about the city, how about the
pool rooms keeping open on Sunday,
how about the big den on Water street,
=, and the one near the cold Postofhce 2"
You can take trip over the streets Of
the city after the midnight hour, and
the lights showing behind curtains and
the rattle of the chips cannot be mis-
taken. There are many signs OF the
times that warn us, such as the mid
night lunches delivered from the near
by restaurants, and the number of
men going in and out. Will these
gambling devices be allowed to con-
tinue? It is up to the new chief to
keep his promise-ore was it all just
to be elected? Perish the thought
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-06-26
The Meaning
Of Socialism
By Victor L. Berger

Text of the speech delivered be-
for the Columbia University Socialist
Cluh) Wis
Socialism is generally defined az
the collective ownership and demo
cratic management of the social means
Of production and distribution.
Definitions, as a rule, do not ex.
plain\ much, however. This definition
explains even less than the usual be-
cause Socialism is not mere theory
invented by some learned professor
or philosopher. Socialism is the name
of a phase of civilization, just as
teudalism was a phase of civilization
and as capitalism is theaname OF the
civilization we have now.
Many students of history and Of
political economy say that Socialism
must be the name of the next phase,
if civilization is to survive.
Man started as savage and a hunt.
er. The. next stage of human pro-
gress were those of the nomadic
herdsman and the agriculturist. Slav-
cry developed in these stages. The
feudal system was the next step; fol.
lowed by the wageA system.
The wage system was a step in the
evolution of freedom, the wage work.
er is better of than the laborer of any
previous epoch of human society. But
the wage system is only q step for
ward. =
The present wage system has evolv.
ed to the trust stage Trusts have
been vigorously attacked for their
hagrant evils; yet we also realize
the great advantage of the trust me-
thcd Of production and distribution
on the largest scale.
The trust has introduced many econ.
omies. It saves labor and EFFORT. con-
centrates production and produces
more cheaply. It eliminates the mid.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-06-26
Locals Agree To
Labor Day Parade

A Labor Day parade is a certainty
now. The responses being received
from the various locals of the city
make this assured. All of the locals
SO far heard from as having taken up
the matter have voted in favor of the
proposition. Secretary Vessel made
this announcement at the meeting OF
the Trades Assembly last Sunday af-
ternoon. a..
Charles FeinIer Unfair?
Charles Feinler, who operates the
Virginia, Colonial and Court theatres,
was reported on unfavorably by the
Painters union. Their complaint is
that he insists upon having his house
painted by man Who is not a mem.
ber of the Painters Union The ser
vices of the arbitration committee
were placed at the disposal of the
Painters Union
Unfair List Unchanged
The unfair list was reported with nc
changes. Locke's shoe stores con
tinue' to defy the union and declare, by
their action, that they do not desire
the patronage of union men or .theiI
families ir friends
May Use Union Goods
A communication was received from
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-06-26
Timers Oppose
Taylor System

Wheeling timers, comprising Local
1S1, s. NJ w. I. A., are making a pro
test against the introduction of the
Taylor system" in the San Francisco
navy yards, by which stop watches
are held on the men, and they are
driven like slaves throughout the day.
The Assembly has Joined in their
protest and they ask their friends Of
the Wheeling district to write to their
congressman and protest against the
passage Of the bill.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-06-26

er or factory hand may work ten or
I>twolve hours, but bricklayer will
work but eight. And you don't have
to pass any eight hour law for the
law yer why you would have. to pass
a strong law to make him work as
Icing as eight hours.
..'lt is quite ridiculous, this thing of
permitting some people to say that
they own the earth, and compelling
us to work for them. Why, if a dozen
men were floating in the sea on raft,
and two OF them would suddenly de-
clare that they owned that raft that
all of them had in common and would
compel the others to pay their tribute
or get off the raft and drown-that
would be no more ridiculous that our
permitting few people to say they
own the earth today.
There is but one cure for our ills,
and that is for all of us to own the
earth. AS to when we will do this,
am not certain. We may go on for
several more generations before the
people develop intelligence enough to
take their own property. / don't
know. AS to how we will do this,
there is no one sure and certain way
that makes all the other ways wrong.
Direct action is good-the workers
refusing the work-that is the most
direct action know of. But you must
take possession of your government
Quit electing your enemies to office
Judges are usually opposed to you
Their whole lives have been lived in
an atmosphere opposed to you and
when they go ON the bench they take
their prejudices with them. That is
good lawyers. You know the rich
have the good lawyers. The rich have
the best of everything, the good law
yers, the good doctors, the good
preachers. Do you know the differ
ence between a good lawyer and a
poor lawyer? The Good one works
for the rich and the poor one for the
poor. The rich have everything in
this world except children, they let
the poor have the children.
Elect your own people to Office.
am in sympathy with Socialism, but
do not believe that voting ticket is
all that we can do. If elections came
every week, that might be enough, but
they come SO far apart that We have
to use every other means that we
know of.
"But in the end we must have that
only. cure-THE PEOPLE WHO DO
THE WORK OF THE WORLD MUST
TAKE POSSESSION OF THE
EARTH"
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-06-26
We Should Worry

Tax payers of Ohio county, did you
know you bought an automobile?
1t is As horsepower, best grade
Cadillac touring car, and will carry
seven passengers with perfect. ease
over the steepest hills of the country
district, even though the mud is hub
deep. It's the only car, and the coun-
ty commissioners should not be
without one.
What is the machine worth?
Oh, we will make it to the county
commissioners for the sum of IS. y
providing you don't mention it to any
one.
Oh, we won't mention it to anyone;
the price will be known only to the
county commissioners. I'VE shou..
worry, every tax payer in the COUNT
is compelled to pay for it.
Well, to get down to business, abou
week ago the capitalist datlies ar
nounced that the county commission
ers had purchased fine Cadillac tout
ing car, in order to cover 220 mile
of roads in the country districts. TIL.
.apitalist dailies did not say that tn.
citizens of Ohio county had purchase
the machine. What we would lie tt
know is whether the citizens or the
commissioners are purchasers. Many
times before the county commission.
ers have been credited with purchas-
ing articles by the dailies and the citi
zens found later that it was they that
were paying for them.
1t is safe, however, to say that the
papers meant the citizens instead o;
the commissioners. Then why not
give the contract price paid for same.
If there were more than one bidder
give their names. The citizens have
a right to know what is paid out for
everything. They have a right to look
over the books whenever they see fit
Another question that might be asked
is, was the investment a profitable
one Ito the taxpayers of the county)t
AS We do not know what the machine
cost We will give the taxpayers the
benefit of all doubts. We will also
give the commissioners the same
benefit
We will say said commissioners
make four trips month into country
district throughout the year VIII
also say he paid $40 per month for
adto hire, $40 per week, or $3.50 per
year, the owner of machine paying for
all wear and tear of car. We will next
say that new car cost $4,000 Every
low estimate, as car of same make
averages $4,000 to $4,000, we use fol-
lowing comparison as illustration:
Pilot hire, new car, per month. $4,000
Garage storage, per month 800. 5000
Gasoline, per month .......... 1000
Incidentals, per month ........ 500
Total per month .......:.. .$95. 90
Cost per year ..............$1,1 $4,000
Former cost (hired carr ....$ $4,000
Difference per year .........$ $4,000
We may be mistaken, but we will al
low the citizen to figure out for them
selves, also figure how long machine
will last. The members of the board
receive IS per day for an average OF
three hours work day, 9 to IL a. m.
Do you laborers get an auto ride and
$50 per week.
But we should worry, for we're the
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-06-26

the Wear-U-Well Shoe company, signi-
fylgn a willingness to put in stock
of union labeled shoes.
Bids For Wiring.
New bids were secured by the trls-
tees, i'm pursuance of instructions, for
widing the hall for electric light. Bids
were read from the Mutual for $92
and from the South Side Electric of
S85. The trustees were instructed to
bring in a recommendation.
Receipts and Expenses.
3 The receipts were: Firemem, No. q.
$4.08; Machmists, No. 1918, Sc; the ex-
penditures: Western Union, $3.50;
Arbitration committee, 81; Auto Car
Co., $40; decorating hall, $40.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-06-26
Brick Contr factors
Are Most Obdurate

Brick contractors of Wheeling are
proving themselves most obdurate.
After agreeing to arbitration they re-
fused to accept the award Of their own
arbitrator and insisted that there
Should be some changes in the scale.
After the Hold Carriers even agreed to
the changes in the scale suggested by
the contractors, the contractors refus-
ed to sign their own suggestions.
Many believe it an attempt to de-
stroy the entire building trades unions
of Wheeling. one at time, beginning
with the Hold Carriers, but the other
crafts are fooling them by sticking.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-06-26
eREGesvlLLE DANCE.

A Moonlight dance" will be given
next Tuesday evening at Greggsville,
by .Richland Branch No. 2, Socialist
party. 1t is the first of the kind of
the season, and $50 invitations have
been isued. A most enjoyable time
IS assured. The following comprise
the committee: Charles Yuncke, Will
1ipm Morgan and Clarence Maxwell.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-06-26
FATHER A PREACHER.

A little lad was found on the street
crying very bitterly because his cart
was broken.
The kindly disposed stranger en-
deayored to cheer the little fellow
by saving: ,fNever mind my boy,
your father can easily mend that"
s.No. he can't" sobbed the boy.
father is preacher and don't know
about anything. Northwestern For
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-06-26
DENYING ORDERS.

The political boss of ! small west
ern city drove his blackboard at top
speed down the main street ON the
morning of an election.
Hey Johnnie" be yelled to his
sen. get down in the Fourth ward
quick! There's people down there
yotin' IS they blame please Record
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-06-26

WHY He WAS 7ARDY. M
Please. teacher, Smiths dog got
hold Of my pants; that's why Pm 4
little BIT behind. z
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-06-26

CONTINUED on PAGn 4
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-03-06
WOOD HIGHEST
PAID PITCHER

st. Louis, March 3.SNeither Jimmy
McAleer nor Joe Wood has confirmed
or denied the story that Smoky Joe"
year to smoke them past the Ameri-
can league batters. Ifsit is true, Wood
becomes in one big jump the highest
paid pitcher in the league, with the
son, who is credited with receiving
$1,000, but whose actual salary is not
known publicly, and perhaps big Ed
Walsh, whose pay is a club secret,
too.
Wood is but 23 years old, too. and
under favorable circumstances should
have at least seven more years as a
star in big league baseball. Added
to his salary are the p~oential profits
share was $4,000. If the sox should
win another worlds series, Wood
should receive close to $4,000 as this
seasons income including side pro-
That's a very tight little salary for
a 2~3-year-old working six months a
year. Very few presidents of the
leading banks of the country beat that
estimating on a twelve months-to-
the-year basis.
Wood pitched in forty-three games
last season. At $500 a year that would
mean ABOUT $172.Os per game. He
be about $3.50 an inning. Not he
ing quite SO old, nor nearly so steady
as Walter Johnson, Wood wastes moro
balls and more energy than John
does. While the terrible Swede'
pitches from about ninety to 100 balls
in a game of nine innings, Smoky, joe
goes him about ten better, on an aver
age. While no statistics have been
kept, o will find Wood averaging
some twelve balls to an inning. So
you see. Joe Wood will be paid about
$1.S2 every time he hurls the horse
hide in a regular game of baseball
TINS year-aiWays assuming that the
$500 story iS true.
In other words, Wood threw that
ball from 1000 to 1900 times last sea-
son and for probably just about the
ing $500 this year, to say nothing of
perqutsites. So there's still plenty of
easy money il you only know how to
get 1t.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-03-06

be built in Philadelphia at a cost Of
$500, 900.
M. B.. Allen of Springfield. N. J.,
has succeeded in growing a pineapple
from a potted plant.
Mount Zion Methodist church, OAR
by, Pa, has celebrated it's 105th an
niversary.
An Englishman has invented an
gong placed in proximity to the re-
volving cooling fan, the blades of
which hold two small striker arms.
The presidents wife has a definite
legal status and strict rules are laid
down for her behavior during her hUs-
bands term of Office. The lady OF the
White House must not accept general
invitations.
Prof. Arminius Vambery, the
worlds most famous Orientalist, who
celebrated his 80th birthday not long
ago, was a tailor's apprentice as a lad,
| and received no education other than
that he vas able to pick up.
The Assouan dam in Egypt, with its
associated irrigation works. has cost
the large sum of $53, 900, 900, but it is
estimated that, as a result of the eX-
penditure, the value of adjacent land
has increased more than $1,000, 000,-
900.
The eternal feminine Of the Juvenile
variety still concentrates It's affections
on dolls as gifts, with the result that
no other toy is sold so largely at holi-
day times. Boys, say the dealers,
scatter their affections on various
military toys.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-03-06

Kansas City Times: Lewis T.
Bryant is labor commissioner of New
Jersey. He has proved an except
tionally competent officer. Politically
he happens OF be a republican. AS
his term vas about to expire a few
days ago a delegation of democrats
called on Governor Wilson and asked
him to appoint a democrat to the
place. The governor declined. He
had nothing against their candidate,
but he put the case to his visitors in
this way:
Public office is not worth anything,
gentlemen, if an entirely, satisfactory
fulfilment of the duties of an office
does not entitle a man to considera-
ton for re-appointment. If men are
to know that a mere change of
administration is to empty an office,
no matter how they have deserved to
be reappointed, there is not anything
of justice or public right left. " = .
But as the responsible appointing Of
ficer / am bound to consider the name
of a man who has made good, as
Colonel Bryant. has. Colonel Bryant
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-03-06
Knew His Grandfather.

Judge: Senator Bailey Of Texas
was speaking of gambling and said:
"A gambler who lived in Texas be-
came converted, joined the Baptist
church and after a time became a
preacher. 1t as his duty to immerse
all those whom he converted.
"One Sunday afternoon he had sew
eral people to baptize, and there vas
a large crowd to see the baptism by
this reformed gambler.
"a little grandson, familiar with his
g~randfather's career, and not realizing
the change in it. had slipped a pack of
cards in his coat pocket some days
before, which the grandfather had
not discovered.
THE time arrived for the baptism
and the preacher went into the water,
amid the hosannas of the crowd.
Soon there slipped from his pocket an
ace of hearts, then a king, a queen, a
jack, followed by a %ten-spot. The
boys mother, considerably frightened,
said:
"fOh, Louis, what did you do that
for? Your poor grandfather will new
er get out alive!'
"'Oh, pshaw!' replied the boy, with
disdain. of course he will! Grandpa
has got out a lot Of times on worse
hands than that!'"