Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-05-22

THE I. W. W. DISRUPTERS are following their
usual tactics and are making every effort in Wheeling
to pull down the Socialist vote that the workers have put
years of work at building up Their noses representa-
tive who gets soft living himself by the profits that he
wrenches from the workers in the sale Of books that do
teach the w. ism that he preaches and of magazine
that uphods capitalism has persisted in his splitting tao
tics in way that must please the heart of every ar-seeng
capitalist to the extent Of trying to ebarrass the
speaker and disturb the Socialist street meetings by rd
culing political action.
He also has another long winded article in this issue
which we will fool him by printing and end by answering
W. W. dsrupters generally back out of their wild mis-
statements when coraed by blank denia and this spec
men no exception An issue Of veracty between himself
and the Majority not desirable so we will leave the men
whom he has repeatedly told that trade unions are kept
alive by CRATER leaders to reflect upon published state
ment that ne never said it. His denial Of violence is also
IN keeping for there is not w publication that does
not advocate violence in form another openly and
directly. by nsinuaton Onefourth of the average l.
w. w paper is usually taken up with this sort of stuff
and the other threeouths with reading matter and car
toons vclousy denouncng the Socialist Party His per-
sonal references will have to be ignored because he is
fair enough to force his opponent to make personal de-
1ense and then accuse him of landing himself His conten
ton that exploitation takes place only at the point of pro-
ducon reads well to people who do not know what that
means but will be Greek to the worker who by
OF controlling his own job attempts to purchase something
else and finds the price fixed at figure that surely robs
him His defense that the Majority and editor does the
same thing himself not borne out the facts for the
Majority furnishes it's readers with paper at less than
the cost OF production the editor drawing his salary not
from the paper but as manager of job printing plant
Wnlcn INDUSTRY so necessary under capitalism that the
Socialist Party has investigation going on now into
the advisabty Of starting Besides the Majority has
never sold paper book whose contents we did not be-
heve in and this rampant rrrevoutionary sells the Cos
mopolitan Magazine If the Majority would ever make
cent the working class will get it. but when he makes
sale MT Hearst gets the profits from the magazine There
are vast oceans OF economic information which the Ma
orty editor has yet been able to explore but he
has at least gotten as far the ron law of wages oil
know about. - r. -
70 say that the { W. W. is the "ony organization
which represents militant revolutionary unonsm is on
thousand mine workers. organized so indusrially that
they take IN everybody from the digger to the electrician
u the same local. and militant that they have DRAGGED
the public ownership of coal mines prove that statemen
false So does the Brewery Workers. who were PREACHING
and Socialism before the chera of the
We every rose green sweet oasis before the troubled