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Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-11-20
SIX INTERNATIONAL OFFICERS :
i TO- SPEAK. HERE NOVEMBER 80

deinately that they will be here. The.
fmpossibility Of securing definite ac-.
-cetances from larger number results;
from the fact that the American Fed
Grafton of Labor convention is being,
held now In Seattle, Washington, and
the difficulty o communicating over
such great distance looms up.
But even should it. not be possible
for any others to be here, the list given
above is attractive enough to bring to
the trades Assembly hall ON that date
every man and woman interested in
the cause of unionism and the advance
nent Of Labor.
Committee Meets
The executive committee met in
regular weekly session last Wednes
day night in the Electrical Workers
hall at 1139 Market street, and the at
tendance was enthusiastic. Any local
union afiHated, whose delegate is not
attending the meetings of this commit
tee, is causing the membership of his
union to miss something Of much In
terest to all of them ~--.--s-4-
Visitation
The Visitation" f6ea was gone into
wholesale, as a result of the delibera-
items of the committee. It was decid-
ed to have the committee meet at the
Trades Assembly hall en- masse on the
following evening and dividing up into
small groups of two or three and visit
all the unions that could be reached
on that evening The intention Is to
keep upN the missionary work until
every member of every organization
realizes the Importance and even nee
essity Of organizing the unorganized
workers.
cheered at Success
The active spirits in the movement
are wonderfullycheer at the success
met with so far. The locals are res
ponding in a way that makes certain
the success of the movement, and it l.
now but matter of bringing into &C
tfon the sentiment that is spreading
Never before in the history of the loca
Labor movement has such campaign
been attempted, and the whole thing Il
new to many. but as rapidly as they
understand it they are grasping 1t!
opportunities to strengthen their owl
unions by strengthening the arms o
those who are now outside Of the fold
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-11-20

One said 1t was "nnprofe ssional and
he wouldn't do 1t anyway Haberstlck
demanded that the letter be read and
this proved that the letter and the
council call were utterly 1t variance,
and the councilmen then did not know
where they were at, Mayor Kirk, who
was present, was unable to explain
the matter away. Evidently 1t had not
been explained to him. He lis in an
unfortunate predicanent when Soma.
thing happens that has not previously
been explained to him.
Then the engineers, who, some OF
them, had come hundreds of miles.
each evidently under the false impress
sion that The was the only engineer
asked to be present, were gently asked
by councilman if they would stick
around until next Friday?
They opined, with an accent Of dis.
gust in their voices, that they would
not. -
1t was then that the motion to wash
their hands OF the whole matter and
turn it back to the Board OF Control
prevailed, and then the council faded
tway while a motion to adjourn was
being announced.
Beard Of Control.
On the following morning the Board
of Control announced that II would re-
ceive new sealed bids for the follow.
| ing Tuesday. This time sealed bids"
was mentioned in the letter. Now
every competing engineer viii be 'tun-
professional -,
And the question Of whether the city
Iengineer is CaDahle OF doing the HRa1r,
ing remains unanswered. -
Wide Variance.
The twe bids read disclosed one Az
ure at $1,000 or $500 per month and
the other stated &S5O-whtch Is about
two-t1iirds less. And the city engineer
could do it for no additional cost.
/ Many people are coming to the con.
clusion that the city dads are trying
to make avmess Of the whole business
In the hope of disgusting the people
entirely with filtration. Practically all
this matter was gone over menths-a ago:
anyway, and nobody seems to know
where they are at now. - -.42 :sE'
The theory upon which bids are
asked is this: That an unbiased en-.
gineer can give figures upon the. cost
and maintenance Of the various sys-
TENS that will be truthful! because ne
will have no axe to grind In refusing
to permit their own city engineer 10
give the figures they are insin uating.
In the meantime the people are
drinking muddy, unhealthful water.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-11-20
Many New Labor Laws

All Of the labor laws Isassed by Con
gress and by state legislatures during
1913, are described in a comprehensive
and timely bulletin just issued from its
New York headquarters by the Aneri-
can Association for Labor Legislati ion.
,sOf special Significance in the labor
ets.ay Dr. John b. Andrews. are laws
in five states. California, Massachusetts,
New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania, ex
tending the commission form OF fact
DRY law admJnistration as adopted
in. Wisconsin two years ago. Eight
states, California, Colorado, Minneso-
ia, Nebraska, Oregon, Washington,
Wisconsin and Utah, have thissyear fol-
lowed the example of Massachusetts
lin passing minimum wage laws. More
stringent laws requiring the notifica
ton of Industrial accidents aid diseas-
es, ana the enactment OF wOrkmen's
compensation measures by seven ad-
ditronai states, Connecticut, Iowa, MIN
nesota, Nebraska, Oregon, Texas, and
West Virginia, are also of first impor-
lance. OF more than ordinary signi
ficance, too, in state legislation, are
/ laws providing for one day rest in sew
en-, and laws for the prevention of lead
poisoning and other occupational dis
leases. Federal labor legislation is no
ticeably incr easing in volume, and Con
gress this year remodeled the law for
Cancellation in railway disputes, and
also created the Department OF Lab
or" Several hundred labor bulls were
introduced this year in Congress alone
while the state legislatures ground out
their full share of the annual grist.
Accidents and Diseases
During the year twelve states pas
Esed new or strengthened old laws re-
Touring the reporting of accidents on
railways and in mines and factories.
-Four new states required physicians to
Irep0rt the most common occupational
diseases, and New York and Connects
lieut. extended their laws to include
ibrass and woostaIcohoi poisoning
Laws requiring sanitation. dust and
hume removal and washing facilities
lin factories were widely adopted, and
i three great lead using states, Missouri,
Ohio and Pennsylvania, enacted scien-
j tific provisions for protection against
trade diseases. particularly lead pois-
Joining Safety requirements for miaes
fwere made more stringent in fifteen
Estates, while twenty-six states demand;
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Dick Military La "
viii B Discussed

1.-THE Dick Military Law" will be
the subject Of discussion at the meet
ing Of Wheeling City Branch, Social
list party, at the Trades Assembly
hall Saturday night, Nov. %. Three
members have been selected to lead
the discussion, and all others present
are expected to give their views.
This is a new idea recently adopted
and win be carried on regularly here
after. Every Saturday night, at $3.50
after the routine business of the meet
ing, there will be a discussion upon
some previously selected subject,
which will be led by three selected
members.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-11-20
Cite Mine Workers Officials
For Contempt Of Injunction

Charging them with having violated
the injunction previously issued by
Judge Dayton in favor of the West
Virginia Pittsburgh Coal Company
fourteen persons have been ordered to
appear before Judge Dayton at Philippi
November rs, "and then and there
show cause why they should not be
a'djudged to answer for contempt of
court in .'disobeyink the lawful pro-
cess etc.
The persons served have all been
working in the interests of the strik-
ing coal miners at Golfers and Wells
burg, and this, it seems, under the
| Injunction kind Of law, is crime.
Those served are as follows: Tony
EAmicone, Frank LedHinka, James
EOates, Hiram Stephens, JOSEPH July,
Thomas Smith, Fanny Sellins, Charles
Oxiey. George Vandyke, Van Bittner,
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-11-20
Street Car Men
Make Assessment.

Wheeling Division No. 1903, of the
Street and Electric Employees, at the
regular monthly meeting Thursday
night voted Is cent assessment upon
its members toward the fund of the
Organization Campaign, and elected
Brother Bartlebangh to serve as its
representative upon the committee.
This win be most agreeable news now
that the second largest Labor union
in Wheeling has joined With the slarg-
est, the Stogie Makers, in leading this
greatest Of campaigns ever inaugu.
rated in the Wheeling district.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-11-20
BUTCHERS SMOKER

On the. evening Of Wednesday. Nov
ember 2S, Thanksgiving Eve,) Butch
ers Local No. will give smoker In
the Beethoven hall, their regular quar-
ters in the Trades Assembly hall not
being large enough for the special oc-
casion.
The affair will be in the nature Of a
chicken supper, and there win be all
the usual side issues. Music for the
event will be furnished by Stiehm' s
Orchestra The doings WIN begin ct
3 O'Clock
The committee In charge comprises:
Chairman, Herman Roeder, Abner Cor
bin, Chris Albert, Michaels, and Thorn
"a.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-11-20
FireTlen Announce
New Years Ball

A New Years Eve ball has been an
nounced by Fireman's Local No. ~
This was decided on at the. last meet.
ing Of the organization =: twill be.
Aeld in Mozart hall. and the following
committee has been named to make
me arrangements: L. F. Sprouce, J. r.
roll J. B. Reilly, A. e. McGrail. Lee
Fnllabaum, c. C. Taylor, GuC Eenpons,
he boys promise an enjoyable time
20 all who attend and their promise is
accepted to literally, by reason Of past
sgFsd.
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The Resolution

Tue ICSOluLlOu Is do HOl1OMOs
WHEREAS. Many thousand of skill
ed and unskflled workers In West Vir>
ginia are unorganized, organized labor
of that state, through the State Fedora
ton, has worked increasingly and earn
estly for many years past to bring
about stronger organization of every
craft and unskilled workers as we'll.
On account of the many obstacles which
confronted them through the opposition
OF the big corporations of that state,
very little has been aecompiishedS and
WHEREAS, AS the State Federation
Of West Virginia has started a cam
paign to arouse all the workers to the
necessity of organizing that they may
be able to protect their rights and Sc
cure more equitable share of the pro-
duct of their labor; and, further, that
they will be able to secure remedia,
legislation that will protect then
against the unscrupulous employers !;
there ore be it ~f4 'f-*a ~
RESOI- ED, That this convention
urge upon every national and interna-
tional organization affiliated with the
A. F. Of L. the necessity of co-opera-
ton with the West VirginiaSState Fed.
Grafton in statewide movement to
bring about thorough organization OF
the workers in that states andgsbep II
further .a' t..,T
RESOLVED, That the Executive
Council investigate industrial condi
lions in that state, and render every
assistance within their power to the
West Virginia State Federation of La
hor' that tbev nav be able to brins
ABOUT desired results. = e.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-11-20
Trades Assembly
TO Meet Sunday

The Ohio Valley Trades and Labor
Assembly will meet Sunday, and the
business to come before the body is
so unusually important that large at
tendance is looked for: Among the
other questions, Filtration will be
thoroughly discussed. :
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-11-20
GIVEN GOOD coMMITTEE

MT. 'Corocan was given membership
on the committee on Rules and Order
OF usiness, and thus the fullest recog.
milton. This will be agreeable news
10 those who feared that his seat as
delegate Of the West Virginia keI3era-
ton of Labor would be contested be-
cause he was member of the Nation
al Stogie Makers League.
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more FILTRATION !:
TALK in COUNCIL

The City Council met in special Joint
session last Tuesday night to talk
FILTRATION" The soloRs wasted sew
eral hour in childishness and then sent
the whole matter back to the Board of
Control, thus affirming, by their own
action, that the city council had no
excuse for existence.
The meeting was called for the pur-
pose OF opening sealed bids from en-
gineers, the sbfds to cover the cost OF
their services in figuring out for the
councilmen the cost of installing and
maintaining the various filtration sys-
TENS offered the city. The first thing
the council did was to pass a motion
to hear the engineers verbally instead
of opening bids. After hearing two
of them, the council reconsidered it's
action and decided to open the bids
After opening two of the three bids,
council turned tail again am decided
to open no more. Then, finally, a mo-
| ton prvailed to refer the whole mat
| ter back to the Board of Control to
recommend an engineer to do the
work. >.
Citizens had been invited, but found
!
They stood around and watched the
proceedings, which were about as silly
as can possibly he imagined. Many
were the expressions of disgust heard
lamOng the spectators at the lack Oh
serious purpose and even ordinary In
EteMgence displayed by the councilmen
Tine motions before the body general
lly developed into party squabbles. an
which ever party happened to inaugu
ate a motion, all the members of the
Opposing party generally opposed it
apparently without regard to< the
merits of the motion.
Pete HaIberstick was the bel
wether of the Democrat side of the
house, and Chairman Nolte finally
threatened to throw him out, bu
Haberstick called that bluff, and wa!
backed up by Drisco1l and Hahne, will
the result that there was no throwing
Haberstick wanted to know why thu
lefty engineer couldn't do the necessary
figuring, without spending more none!
to hire another engineer, when the cit,
has one regularly employed on salary
4 A frightf2l question like this was IN
mediately ruled out of order. Alexan
der backed the chair up in keeping
such an awful question out of the dis
eussion. Haberstick appealed to tn
city solicitor. Brennan, but the latte
was silent. 1t didn't seem to be an.
Iof his business, either, where the city
money went. When Engineer Whit
came to the bat, in one of the spell
Of council, Habrstic. asked him if tn
Icity solicitor was not as competent a
himself or his colleagues to figure on
the costs of the variou system, but al
the city administration hackers howle,
that question down, and it, too, wa
ruled out of order.
Engineers Talk.
) Interest was added when foreign er
gineers asked for the floor and declaI
ed that they had received letters from
1.-THE Board of Control, asking them t
!, be present, and which said nothin
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-11-20
Stage Employees


At the next meeting OF Wheeling
Local No. 81, International Alliance
Of Theatrical Stage Employees there
will be the annual election OF officers.
Following are the nominations:
President, Allen Scroggins.
Vice President, Paul Lewis.
Recording Secretary, Henry r. Fit
ton.
Financial Secretary, one to elect,
VIM. Wise, Robert Day, VIM. Dixon.
Treasurer, y. w RICHARDSON, J, Dav-
i'd Kurner.
Trustees. three to elect, VIM. Dixon,
Harry Howard, H. A. Carver.
Delegates to O. v. T. & L. A., three
to elect, E. D. Brunette. VIM. Dixon,
H. B. McGrane, ]. David Kurner.
M. P. c.. two to elect, Earl BolOs.
Paul Lewis,
Business Agent, Walter Davis, Fred
Neuhart, Bert Powell.
Schedule Committee Stage Employ
es, three to elect, Allen Scroggins, H.
r. Fitton, II. B. McGrane, VIM, Dixon,
]. D. Kurner, Robert Day.
NJ. P. c., three I'd elect, H: A. Carver.
John Grow, James Stephen, Paul
LEWIS. o
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JOHN HALEY pENEFlr.

The Sheet Metal Workers ara rails
ing a benefit fund for John Haley. one
of their members, who has been III tor
a long time. They are disposing OF .
gold watch OBJ.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-11-20

Capitalists idea Of good man: One
who gives much. OF 3 righteous maui
One who gives ALTO him.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-11-20

AS a cheap and bungling tyranf,
Hureta is almost the equal OF a certain
governor well known IN West Virgins.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-11-20

Glasscock and Hatfield tho little
and the loud,
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-11-20

Tenant farmers ought to oppose So.
cialism. When they work cooperative
hand they win mot have to give half to
a master. They'd hate thatl
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-11-20
Enaineers Talk.

Interest was added when foreign en-
gineers asked for the floor and declar-
ed that they had received letters from
the Board of Control. asking them to
be present, and which said nothing
whatever about preparing sealed bids.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-11-20
Want 4: +, Of |. 10 Help Wheeling
Organization Campaign Now Launched

The first resolution laid before the
convention of the merican FedeFation
of Labor was introduced by.H e Cor
coran of this city, and called upon
the A. F. Of L. to recognize the strug-
gle now on in this state and to assist
the organization campaign now launch
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CONTINUED "W 80 -
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-10-24
MINE EXPLOSION BURIES 2sO.
Men Entombed by Debris in stag
Canon Pit at Dawson, N. N.

Dawson, N. M, Oct. %. Two hun
dred and eighty miners were entombed
in shaft No. 2 of the Stag Canon mines
here when an explosion occurred at the
property at 8 o'clock this afternoon,
according to an unofficial estimate.
Two men found on an upper level,
were taken from the mine tonight. Res
cuers were called from all parts of the
southern Colorado coal fields. Three
Italian miners were rescued alive from
the debris at the opening of the mine
at $50 O'Clock tonight. This makes
five miners rescued. 1t is hoped that
all will be saved.
The rescue party is making slow
Roadway against the tons of coal and
debris which is blockading the mine.
The men rescued were separated from
the main body of miners at the time of
the explosion and could tell nothing of
it.
The day shift in shaft No. 2 num-
bered 230 persons. The cause of the
explosion is unknown.
Though smoke was seen issuing fl ON
the second level Of the shaft the res
cuers believed that this came from the
explosion and not from fire.
Immediately after the explosion all
shifts were called to the work of rescue.
Those miners employed in other shafts
were put to work drilling through the
debris, which was said to have blocked
the mine below the second level.
The United States rescue car stationed
at Trinidad was summoned, and every
available man in Dawson tonight was
aiding in the attempt to reach the en-
tombed miners.
Rescuers worked heroically to supply
air to the men. Reports from the mine
did not state at which level the ex-
plosion occurred, simply that the mine
shaft was blocked from the second
level. The property is owned by the
Phelps Dodge, G. Company of New
York.
Five mines are connected in the work
ings and it is thought that if the
miners escaped death in the explosion
they should be able to reach safety.
F. l.. Miller, superintendent of the
Colorado Fuel G. Iron Company, with a
trained crew of rescuers, left Trinidad
with oxygen helmets and other ap-
paratus.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-10-24
CHICAGO AUTOS KILL MANY.
Fatal Accidents In That City In
crease $50 Per Cent in Five
Years

Chicago, Oct. 17.-Deaths in this
city from automobile accidents in
creased 553 per cent from 1907 to 1912,
according to statistics supplied to the
Chicago safety commission, which was
organized recently to combat such ac-
cidents. In 1907 there We're Is deaths
from motor car accidents; last year
there were 80, the in .rease being the
largest in the country.
In other large cities the increases
for this period We're: New York. 80
per cent; Philadelphia. 800; Boston,
277; Cleveland, $40; Baltimore, POO;
Pittsburg, $50; Detroit, 325; Buffalo,
200; San Francisco. SO; Milwaukee, 1874:
Cincinnati, 26O; Newark, 30; Los
Angeles, go; Kansas City, 500; Seattle,
$50; indianapolis, $50; Providence, 400;
St. Paul, 400; Denver, 81; and Memphis,
400
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-10-24
Values Honor at One Dollar.

After knocking down and injuring 8.
year-old Joseph McCarty of l Gardner
street, Newton, while he was crossing
Nonantum square, that city, Sunday
morning. an unidentified automobiles,
for whom the police are searching,
picked the boy up, informed the crowd
that he was going to take him to the
hospital, carried him out of sight short
distance and turning him out of the car
gave him a dollar bill and told him to
run away home.
As the car drove off, Joseph, crying
staggered out of jackson street, where
he had been taken, and crawed along
the sidewalk in the direction of his
home. He was almost unable to walk
because of injuries to his legs, and
clutching his dollar tightly in one fist,
dragged himself painfully along over
the pavemnt.
1t was some minutes later that an
other automobilist came along and heard
the boys story. The lad was taken to
his home, where DR.. Eugene Mccarthy
attended him. Boston Herald.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-10-24
FERN PICKING IN VERMONT

Fern picking has become an industry
in the four southern towns of Benning-
ton county, Woodford, Stamford, Sears
burg and Readsboro.
Just why the peculiar industry of
fern picking should be confined to the
small section of country on the slope of
the Taconic mountains in southern YER
mont has never been satisfactorily ex-
planned. Ferns grow everywhere
throughout parts of New England and
northern New York, but the fact re-
mains that in no other localities is bust
ness of the picking of the little sprays
of green so thoroughly established as in
the little belt of mountains less than a
hundred square miles in area.
The industry is comparatively new
and came into existence by the discov-
cry by florists in the cities that the
addition of few ferns as background
for box of blossoms added materially
to the value, especially during the win
ter, when little green is available. Since
it became known that ferns could be
kept all winter in cold storage the bus
mess of gathering and retailing has in
creased rapidly, so that there are at
present many firms in New York and
Massachusetts which give it their en-
tire attention several months of the
year.
The business now annually brings into
the mountain towns considerable money
in wages. The pickers are paid by the
piece, at the rate of four cents hun
dred, and some of the industrious and
nimble ones earn from S. to 81 day.
If the weather permits the bu sness is
carried on from the present time until
early in November, all of $4,000 ferns
will be shipped from Bennington and
fully as many from the other side of
the mountains. 1t is an easy matter
to figure out that this will mean $40, 900
to the pickers alone, to say nothing of
the wages paid to owners of teams who
haul the ferns from the pickers' camps
to the railroad station. Barre Times.