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Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-07-24
Who Lies?

The daily papers say that the new
chief of police is getting new uniforms
for the new police force from a new
source.
The new chief says this is not SO.
That he doesn't care where the men
get their new uniforms. And also, and
Furthermore, that he doesn't owe Og-
den dollar and intends to tell him
where to head in at, or words to that
same portent.
And still the uaihes 60 on and on.
and with much wearisome detail tell
how the coats are to- be nigh collared.
somewhat after the fashion of the hab-
4liments of the London bobbie, and so
Forth. And this makes the new chief
tune and froth, since he is Lunnoner
imself
Still he gets his name in the papers,
and that's something. 1t is so mucn.
in fact, that We haven't mentioned it
In this whole article, our advertising
space being of more real value than
that of the kept dailies.
And after all, time will tell. If the
coats come, and come with high col
lars, and come with no union labeIs,.
and come through Geo. w Fox, them
the persistent voice of rurnor has but
told the truth, and the new chief has
told2has toid-has told in this case
what ne seems to have told in many
cases about who his police force APP
pointees would be-
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-07-24
Steubenville Strikers
E1av eCo Company Worried
Try I. To Murder !.
Mil Strikers

iSteubenville, Ohio, July 24.-An at
tempt at wholesale slaughter of strik-
ers was made on South 4th street. this
city, on Monday afternoon, between
three and four o'clock. Three or four
strikebreakers were being escorted
from the Pope tin mill by deputies
On their way up Slack street they
were booed and jeered by a crowd of
boys, who followed them to 4th street.
hmm ediately following the sca'bs came
~. c. Williams, the manager, in his
automobile, driven by thug who has
doubtless been hired for his lawless-
ness. The auto turned up 3rd street
to South thence to 4th, and swooped
down upon the crowd that had by that
time gathered. Notwithstanding the
fact that the scabs were guarded by
deputies and had come from the mill
unmolested by the strikers, j. G. Viii
liams and the bandit who drives his
auto Immediately drew their guns, the
latter firing shot into the crowd
Jim O'Donnen, one of the scabs en-
couraged by the Wanton lawlessness OF
his master, and in open defiance o.
the law against the carrying of con
cealed weapons, drew his gun and
fired three shots into the crowd, the
third one piercing the abdomen Of
Constable Griffith, who is now lying
dead.
J. C. Williams, his brigand chauf
feur and scab assassin, were the only
| ones who were poss essed. of and brand
ished guns, yet an attempt is being
made to faSten the crime on an limo
cent striker, on the plea that he was
"inciting to riot" No attempt wa.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-07-24
H, G. Creel.
Will Speak Here


H. G. Creel, known wherever -radi-
cal literature is read, will speak in
Wheeling on the evening of Tuesday
July 20, at Fourteenth and Market
streets. He has been sent to West
Virginia by the National Rip Saw,
whose correspondent he has been for
several years, to help in the state wide
campaign for the political and indus
trial organization of the coal miners.
He will deliver half hundred speech
es in the state.
He will be remembered here as hav-
ing spoken in Bridgeport last year,
where he so pleased his audience that
there will be large crowd from that
place. .-.,
The meeting, of course, will be an
open air one, and that will be pleas
| ing in such warm weather. In case,
however, of a rain, a nearby hall will
lbe secured. s-
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-07-24
Elm Grove Strike
Show $ No Change

The strike at the Chambers mine in
Elm Grove shows no change. The men
are still as determined as ever. and
the strike will continue if not won
until this entire state is unionized. :.
Fred Ledvinka. general Organizer Of
the United Mine Workers, is here now
and has personal charge of the strike,
and that means that all the necessary
fire and vim will be in the thing un-
til won.
1t is no less an authority than him
self and the officials Of Sub District 5
that announce that there will be no let
up until the whole state is unionized,
until the unionizing movement; work
ing northward through the state, meets
with this movement here, working
southwark through the Pan Handle.
Scabs are being induced to leave
about as fast as the Chambers people
secure them, under false pretenses,
and the production of coal at the mine.
while very costly to the management,
is about at nil.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-07-24
Hundreds March
To WiGTitOl Mil
(By Special Correspondent


Steubenvflle, Ohio, July 24.-On
Tuesday afternoon the strikers of the
Pope plant went up to Weirton one
hundred strong and marched the
streets of that place. The demonstra-
ton awoke the whole town. Men wo-
men and children flocked around to
see what was going on.
The reception the strikers received
was the continuous ,whistling from the
mill warning the people of danger.
The people began to ask what the
trouble was. General Manager VIII
liams and his hired thugs were soon
on the scene having motored from
Steubenville like people bereft of rea-
son. This peaceful Cd citizen soon
had his mill guards paroling the town
with riot guns.
II there had been an attempt to mold
a meeting there woul Id have been muir
der committed by those low thugs.
Some of the strikers started to
wards the station on the road general
ly used by all the people going to
the depot, but were turned back by
General Manager Williams and his
thugs.
The Phillips Sheet and Tin Plate
Company owns the town of Weirton
In fact it even assumes to own the
blue sky above it. Cabin Creek ant
Paint Creek, West Virginia, In thell
worst days had nothing on this place
If there is any place in the whole uni
verse worse than Weirton, we woule
like to hear of it. The people OF, this
place may try to deny this, but the5
certainly have not -thel liberty and IRE
dom allowed them by the constitution
of our country. They dare not men
ton organization in any form or thel
are thrown out of work and are com
PEELED to move away from the town
as the company OWNS nearly all O
theh ouses.
Liberty and freedom are nothinI
but a joke to the slaves OF Weirton.
If the company thinks this is tn
last trip that VIII be made into it
stronghold, it is greatly mistaken, TO
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-07-24
Raid VIM. Rooms
No, Not All!

Saturday night there was an elev-
enth hour excitement. brief lived, oc-
casioned by the "raiding" of Kurutz' S
wine room, that starts on Market
street and sweeps around to Fifteenth
street alley. The police started from
the building, started out for to raid,
and in just forty short minutes. they
covered the Intervening one and one
half squares and were at Kurutzs.
But, somehow, even in that brief
time, the proprietors got word of the
impending crisis, and all the ladies
left the room, in order to allow the
gentlemen to smoke. It is another, re
mark able achievement Of mental tel
epathy. Else how could they have
known of the raid to be
No, gentle reader, there were nc
raids farther up town. Grill rooms are
never pulled just wine rooms.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-07-24
Federal Union
Has Fine Affair

Federal Union No. 1 held most en-
joyable smoker last Tuesday evening
at their quarters at Sixteenth and
Chapline streets. The affair was i'll
the nature of social session and
smoker. Lemonade and coffee, ham
and cheese sandwiches. and big and
little havanas were served.
In addition to the leafs and drinks
there was feast of reason and flow
of SOUP in the shape of addresses by
several. Joseph A. Armstrong, vice
president of the State Federation o.
Labor, acted as chairman in the alb
sence of President Hilton, who is out
of the city on business, and after a
brief but most interesting talk intro
duce W. T. Jackson of Cincinnati, gen
eral Organizer of the International
Hold Carriers and Building Laborers
of America, who spoke at length, ex-
planning the purposes and aims of Or
ganized labor, particularly as applied
to the work that is usually designated
as "unskilled" He was followed by
President L. ]. Latham of the Trades
Assembly. who delivered an address
in his usual convincing manner, and
pledged the support of the Assembly
to the unorganiZed workers of Wheel
ing in their efforts to organize and bet
ter their condition The last speaker
of the evening was H. P. Corcoran,
who closed with a powerful appeal 10
the workers of Wheeling to get into
the protecting folds of unionism
Many new applications for member
ship were received and everybody
seemed well pleased with the even
ings entertainment that it is practic-
ally assured that there will be another
in the near future.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-07-24
Clarksburg Mill Strikes In Sympathy With Steubenvile
Pope Mill Guards
Now Quite La less

taken to the woods and they remained
in hiding until after their victims and
the sheriff had left the corporation
owned rtewn. The thugs are in the
pay o2fh company for Just that pur-
pose.
Keep Man From His Mail.
John Mocus, a tin house worker, who
went to Wierton for his mail which
was at the Wierton post office, was
held up by company thugs and COM
PEELED to board the train back to Steu-
benville. He is brother to- the man
who was taken from hi sroom last
week by Company thugs and beaten
up so badly. and showed upon car
without ever being permitted to wash
the blood from his face
Getting Desperate.
The reason for the desperation of
the company and their hirelings is
apparent. The bulls" were contract
led for but thirty days They receive
SO per day. and a bonus of 50 per day
iii they remain for the full thirty days.
1t is up to them to get another 80 days
contract, as their time is about up, and
as there is no trouble, they proceed
to manufacture some.
4 AS to the workers in the mill, they
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Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-07-24
To Tour Stat
For W. Val. OIL.

Joseph A. Armstrong, fourth vice
president of the West Virginia State
Federation of Labor left Wednesday
for Fairmont and will go from there
to Parkersburg and several other cit
les of the state, in the. interests of the
state body
He is visiting local unions not now
affiliated with the state central body
and in the effort to induce them to af-
filiate and become part of the organ
lied and centralized forces so that the
efforts of labor all along the line in
the state, both politically and indus
triaily, will be subserved to better ad-
vantage.
Not one third of the labor organiza-
tons of the state now belong to the
State Federation of Labor, but an ag-
gressive campaign is to be made from
now on. and it is believed that great
results will shortly follow.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-07-24
Company Asks
ShGTif'S Aid
(By Special correspon dent. }

Steubenville, Ohio July 24.-Pugilis-
tic bouts exhibition baseball games
and yiands suited for the palate Of a
king only, which local paper re-
Gently said the Phillips Tin Plate COM
pany here was furnishing it's aggrega-
ton of dirty gutter snipes, commonly
termed strike breakers, has evidently
failed to bring any favorable results
i in the eompany's attempt to defeat
the Amalgamate dissertation.
| The company welded another
stroke, and which from all indications
Is a fore runner of its surrender, when
1t called upon the sheriff for protec-
ton to the scabs housed within its
plant that they might have ingress
and egress from the mill under the
arm of the law. The sheriff, probably
unconsciously fell for this scheme, and
on Monday morning deputized 10 men
and placed them on duty in the strike
zone The first serious disturbance
since the strike was inaugurated, as
had been freely predicted, ocucrred,
tand ere the sun had set, George Grit
fifth, one of the deputies was laid low
by a bullet from a revolver in the
hands of James ODonnell, strike.
breaker. Griffith died Tuesday after
noon at 4:30 olcock.
| O'Donneil is roller and came here
about year ago, and at the time Of
calling of the strike was employed il
the Phillips plant here, (the Pope
MILD, but refused to come out with
the men. He, however, was persuad
led the next day to join the ranks o.
the strikers and remained out unit
last week when he deserted the cause
and returned to his job. O'Donnell, il
seems, was more defiant than the
average scab, and in company with
three of his unprincipled compatriots
it is alleged, started from the mill K
go to his home. They were met By
a few strike sympathizers, who fol
lowed merely indulging in boots ant
ieers, which was kept UP for severa
squares. Suddenly ODonnells three
companions started to flee, when thu
assassin, it is said, called to then
not to do SO, at the same time whip
ped out a gun and began promiscuoui
shooting the third or fourth shot hit
ting Griffith He was Immediately ar
rested and taken to the county jail
where he has since been confined
The statement appearing IN the lo
cal press and also in a Wheeling
morning paper insinuating that TIN
shooting was not the work OF str1k'
breaker, and that the murderer wa
later released was, upon 1nVestlga
tion, found to be unauthenticated.
Sheriff Huscrott, it is claimed, state'
that his deputies would not be use'
for the purpose of escorting the scabs
! but there seems to be some question
, as to what function they were pei
forming when Griffith was slain.
The company is licked to a fragile
: One ELECTS a broad smile from expel
? lfenced tin workers when inquiring a
to the truth of the statement that tn
mill Is running full 1t Is ascertalne'
on excellent authority that not do
, lars worth of marketable product
: being turned out. The employer
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-07-24

There is no material change in the
Enamel Workers strike at Bellaire.
While there are many rumors as to
what is intended by the company,
there has been no official notlhcatlon
given the strikers.
At a meeting held ON last Wednes-
day evening, which filled the nali,
a vote was taken as to how the strlk'
ers felt in regard to going back to
work before complete victory was
won there being . rumor circulated
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-07-24
Enamel Strikers
Standing Firm,

by some of the company's tools that
the strikers were weakening and were
ready to give. up. The result of the
vote put aside all doubts as to the
standing of the strikers, it being with
out a dissenting vote, all being de
termined ON the point of standing
firm until a complete victory is as
sured.
All indications are that the picnic to
be held Saturday win be complete
success. 4
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-07-24
CROWD AT TUNNELToN

Tunnelton W Va, July -(spe-
cial. w. B. Hilton, of Wheeling
spoke here tonight to a large audience
on the main street, at Watson's cor
ner, speaking for two hours. M M.
Miller acted as chairman oil the meet
ing. Great good was accomplished for
the cause of Labor.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-07-24
ORGANIZE AT ROWLESBURG

Rowlesburg. W. Va, July 24.-(Spe-
eiall-The first Socialist talk ever
beard in this town was delivered
here tonight by w. B. Hilton, of Wheel
ing. at public meeting at which e.
n Moore presided. and which was
arranged by J. L. Dawson, of Fair.
mont At its conclusion an organiza-
ton Of a local was affected.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-07-24
ORGANIZER JACKSON :
HERE FOR HODCARRIERS

W. T. Jackson, general organizer of
the International Hold Carriers and
Building Trades Laborers, is in the
city, having arrived from Cincinnati
Monday. He is here in the interests
of the Hold Carriers in connection with
the trouble now existing in the build
ing trades.
The Brick Contractors have refused
to abide by the decision of their own
arbitrator in the matter of an increase
in the wages of theh cd carriers. He
has met with the Building Trades offic-
ials and with the executive board OF
the Assembly, a special meeting OF the
latter having been held Monday even
ing in the Majority office.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-07-24

BARRIERS at Toronto, Can, will ask
that a weeks work constitute fifty
four hours at 80 cents an hour, the
weekly wage to be SIS per week, with
a minimum of $13.
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Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-07-24
ONLY LABOR PAPER

In the Ohio valley--The
Workshop of the world
catering to 125, 900 Indus
trial Population.
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CONTINUED ON PAGE 70.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1913-03-14
WELL DESERVED
The Praise That Comes From Thankful
Lancaster People.

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The Cause Of Rheumatism.

Stomach trouble, lazy liver and de-
ranged kidneys are the cause of rheu-
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neys and bowels in healthy condition
by taking Electric Bitters, and you
will not be troubled with the pains of
rheumatism. Charles B Allen, school
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The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1913-03-14
PREACH ERSVILLE.

Mrs. ]. H. Thompson cut her hand
while sllcing meat.
Mrs. M. o. Kennedy and sister, Miss
Flossie May Sutton, of Bryantsville,
visited relatives here Sunday.
Miss Gertrude Adams has returned
home after pleasant visit 10 her uncle,
Mr.. William Naylor, near Stanford.
Mr.. S. N. Gill is quite sick of bronchial
pneumonia. James and Thomas, his
two sons, are also under the weather.
Rev. E. B. English, pastor of the
Baptist church here, will fill his pulpit
Saturday P. NJ, Sunday morning and
Sunday evening.
Rev. George C. Cromer delivered a
steroptican lecture at the Baptist church
Sunday evening after the conclusion of
the B. Y. P. U. Rev. Cromer is the
founder of the All Prayer Foundllngs,
Home in Louisville. The lecture was
heard by a large and appreciative
audience who were greatly interested in
the pictures of the bright young babies
in the Home. May God prosper his
noble work.
Mr.. Jones L. Anderson got his arm
and hand badly crushed, besides sustain
ing numerous other injuries, when a
team of mules which he was driving ran
away. A colored youth, who was also
on the wagon at the time, was slightly
injured. The wagon was demolished.
The team was stopped by Mr.. Fado
Parkes near his blacksmith shop. 1t
occurred just as the pupils at Miss
Wilson's school were assembling for
the day and it was very lucky that none
of them happened to be in the way of
the flying team, or the story might
have been worse.
Mr.. Jesse B. Sartain, the popular and
efficient carrier of R. F. D. rout No. A,
out of Stanford, was taken seriously i'll
very suddenly just as he reached here
Friday morning. He was carried to the
residence of Mr.. and Mrs. w. C. Cum
minis and Drs. Brown and Southland, of
Stanford, were called and attended him.
Mrs. Sartain was called and with
other friends aided in ministering to
her husbands needs. On Saturday
Mr.. Sartain had rallied somewhat and
his physicians thought best to remove
him to his home at Stanford. Mr..
Henry Anderson came over from STAN
ford in his car and with DR.. Southland
carried him home. At last accounts Mr..
Sartain was resting some better. We
wish this gentleman speedy recovery
to health. 1t has been our great
pleasure to know him for about six
years and we feel able to testify as to
his sterling qualities as an official and
also as Christian gentleman. During
his illness, Mr.. Owsley Newland, his
efficient substitute will attend to the
carrying of the mail.
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BUCKEYE.

The weather is fine and the farmers
are quite busy.
Miss Ruth Ray opened a profitable
school here on last Monday.
Mrs. DIR. Gilbert left Wednesday to
spend few days in Louisville.
Miss Cordelia Ray who has been quite
sick for some time is improving slowly.
Miss Katie Mae Dickerson of Rich
mond is visiting her sister Mrs. George
Ray.
Matte and Willie Kersey of Madison
are visiting their aunt Mrs. Jennie
Broaddus.
We are sorry to report that Mrs.
Mary Burton who has been sick for
some time continues quite i'll.
A. C. Miles bought of Preston Sny-
der yearling cattle at $24.OO each
any one cow and calf for $50.
Rev. H. M. DeMoss of Louisville
filled his appointment here on last Sum-
day, he preached very profitable dis
course on Sunday morning and made q
very instructive talk to the young mer
on Sunday night. The church extend
ed call to him and should he accept
the charge we do hope that by the
help of the Lord that he will be 1
great blessing to the church and tn,
church blessing to him.