Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-07-24
-- WE WILL NOW HAVE -
A Feu Remarks

BY WALTER B. HILTON

STIRRING TIMES are ahead Of us in West Vir-
gnia West Virginia has been backward in it's industrial
Development insofar labor unionism concerned but
the awakening is about due.
All that we have so far seen in the way of ''labor
disturbances is but the just faint glmmering Indus
trial war; grim and CHASTITY is looming onimousy before
u.s. and this dark cloud that has been faint and hazy in
its outlines, is rapidly taking definite shape.
It means just the Majority has persisted in point
ing out that the coal miners Of this state to be union
lied and the feuda power Of the mine absolutely
broken When the Majority first declared that this would
be the development Of the three next years recev
ed by many agitaors wild and baseless claim Now
that the Kanawha Valley has been organized complete
~ that the union production Of coal is longer pos
sble at least profitable and since the New River and
Winding Gulch region has added 5000 to the folds
of unonsm with their rights to representation and recog
milton recognized the scoers are beginning to the
handwriting on the wall.
And now the pendulum of opinion is liable to swing
to the other extreme We too apt to believe that the
trouble is practically and that peaceful progress to
this peaceful solution will be the future order But this
will not be true unfortunately The mine owners, drunk
with power and crazed with greed will fight every inch Of
the way and they forced back step by step, will
leave for the vicors waste barren their devty
and power to do harm make it.
The Paint Greek settlement is not criterion 1t
must not be imagined that the others will come so peace
ably The Paint Greek Galleries Company is owned by
the of the Scranton International Correspondence
School, and the fear of the local strength Of the miners
may have been far overshadowed by the fear Of general
reprisa against the school the part Of all organized
labor an element which forms the chief source of income
to the mail order college.
No. the fight is to be long drawn out and bitterly
tested The miners will win but they will forward
painfully from hard vantage point to another
and every step will be taken their wounded.
Against them the coal barons will use all their old meth
DDS and all the they deyisetheir Baldwin
Fetz men, their state militia their corrupt courts and
plant governors their Shutteworhs and their army Of
thugs and hired assassns their kept press professors
and even pulpiteers- will be used to the utter limit
Even new fields will be opened, and employment
agencies Of the big cities will bring in foreigners who do
not know why they come, and starving who do not
They will be whipped in the end, but the battle
will be fearful and all good people may well make up
their minds to it.
It is all bcause there is profit in the coal business.
For this profit the willing to lose what
pleased to call their souls They will be fighting for
what they believe to be their right private profit
which to them food, clothing and shelter.
And that is exactly what the miners will be fighting
for And what side gains the other will lose. And
that why there be peace until is defeated
The miners will not much because they right
which they are-but because of numbers. Right
out until it had numbers enough to take it, and the
righteousness Of the miners will win because of
their numbers and the numbers Of the great of
the American people who coming to sympathize with
them they to know that they the most diabo
letcally oppressed people in this broad land of
So Mr.. Chambers, at lEm Grove and Mr. Mckinley
at Wheeling, may we'll bow to the inevitable. By bow
human beings much suffering if they sit stupidity
point that every boiler reaches when the becomes
too great.
Unionism is the safety valve.