Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-09-04

THAT THERE ARE TWO LAWS in this country
for the poor and for the for the oppres
and one for the oppressed is proved by the develop
ments in Steubenvie. There thugs under the employ of
the Phillips Sheet and Tin Plate company charged
through the Streets shooting right and left and killed two
men and wounded dozen more" For this outrage the
company has been allowed to put up dollars and the
assassins have been released.
It is permitted to kill workingmen. There is not a
law against killing workngmen You can run them down
with automobiles, you find this too slow, you may kill
them in their doorway For appearance SAKE it may be
necessary for you to put up few dollars bond but this
will not seriously Inconvenience you, not real
money required IF were you could take it from your
workers, but that is not generally required.
Even should appearances actually require you to pay
the money you will find this far cheaper than paying in
creased wages Therefore it is much better as business
proposition to kill few agtators than to raise the wages
Of many workers.
Some employers do not this Perhaps they are too
dense Perhaps there is in their heart lingering spark
that flares up and scofces uncomfortaby at the thought
of taking away human fe but this breed being rapid
~ weeded out OF American industry by the forward march
of capitalism The United States Steel Corporation has
progressed far beyond scky sentmentalty They have
figured everything down to such fine point that they
know just how many men they kill in year and still
get along more cheapy than they had saved those lives
The Phillips Sheet and Tin Plate Company has profted
by their example They have reduced the making Of sheet
and tin plate to coldy commercial basis and afford
to kill some and then in order to keep the profits
on the right side Of the ledger
So they hired assassins to kill off in Steuben-
VILE The workers had shown the teemity to organize
Now the matter Of organization nothing to EN-
SHARE Ol prOQHcCt
Tor The producer The company doesn't if improves
the worker makes him better husband and father and
better citizen. In FACT employers, they thni
about these things at ALL would really not mind much
this true An organization that did that alone wou
be safe and conservative labor union It would meet
with even the approval of such lovers Of humanity
W. Post But the trouble is that Labor organizations do
not stop there They insist upon raising wages
ms hours and improving working conditions such safe
gra ding life And that all this down profits the pro-
.rctlon record sheets will show plainly Therefore in
order to stop organization the agtaOrS must be brbed
corporations could afford pay 100000 every leader
they kill off. Five thousand dollars is dirt cheap
Steubenvle just now is showing how this works out
kanawha county showed it little while ago. Some one
in your own family perhaps yourself may be the next
proof
What you going to do about it, Are you goins /
to sit still and allow these corporations to entnue their
bloody way until every with courage enough to raise
his voice in protest murdered9 And until the rest of
you will live in abject slavery Or you going join
with your brother now and hold the hands Of those who
to be man or q rat