Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-03-06
Locke Shoe Fight.
Getting Warm No.v

The fight of organized labor in be
half of the Retail Clerks against the
Locke Shoe Company lis still on and
the fight will continue until this firm
is either brought into line or loses
all support of organized labor.
During the week General Organizer
L. D. Redding arrived in the city and
will continue here while the present
controversy is on with this firm. Or
ganizer Redding is congratulating the
members Of organized labor upon the
magnificenafight being put up in be-
half of u slerhs, and will carry the
fight on Ybw with even greater fight
ing forces, if possible.
The necessity of organization among
clerks is being more thoroughly de-
monstrated each day, the necessity of
organization of salespeople being
brought out in the state of Illinois
through the necessity of the senate
committee appointed by that body call.
AAAS FAPOA SlAO OCPc1 uG1uS Ot
several of the large department stores
Of Chicago and almost forcing~them
to give testimony relative to wages
paid the lady salespeople.
Recently minimum wage scales
have been placed in the following
cities by the Retail Clerks Interna
tional Association, Evansville, Ind.
East Chicago, Ind, Lafayette, Ind.
Peoria, ILL.,, Springfield, Ill, East st
Louis, Ill, Herrin, III, Toledo Ohio
Bellaire, and Others In each city the
movement for minimum wage was
realized after the clerks had become
o. ganized and an investigation O.
/ wages PAID sales girls had been made
and Organizer Reading reports tha1
Wheeling salespeople are paid ever
less than some of the cities where the
minimum wage scale has been placed
The merchants of this city undoubted
ly realize that an organization Of the
clerks would eventually bring this in
vestigation hence the opposition to an
| organization on the part of the Locke
| ShoeN Company and a few Others.
An Active Campaign.
An aictve campaign against the
Locke Shoe Company will 9result from
the visit of the representative of the
clerks and every organized craft iii
the city will be visited and the finan-
cial as we'll as the moral assistance
of organized labor will. be asked
While the local clerks union is young
in years it naturally has expended its
treasury in this fight, but organized
labor will undoubtedly respond to the
appeal of the clerks.
The Ohio Valley Trades and Labor
Assembly was Informed from the very
first that the one great. need for an
organization among the salespeopls
was to protect the women and girls
who work for half or less than hall
what it costs them to live and has
lent its assistance to this movement
that a minimum wage scale could BIZ
placed in the retail stores.
, The Locke Shoe Company is at this
time, lighting the minimum wage scale
for salesgirls by their refusal to dea
with the Retail Clerks Union and Will.
they have retarded the movement, i
lis only temporary, and organized ia
Dor and its friends will continue t
refuse to patronize the Locke Sho,
stores. The central bodies in cite
[ where the Locke Shoe. company sell
shoes at wholesale will be asked t.
Inform dealers handling the Lock
shoe that the, firm is unfair to. organ
lied labor and its friends.