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


organization the three that formerly fought each other
and noW with this united 'front.' are absorbing even box
makers girls and boys with the ultimate end of embracing
the wood working industry And how about the Shing
w eaVers Who after less than dozen years which they
Quilt up their own organization, have changed the
constitution and their scope to industrial 1lnonism Id
are holding out their the whole tim e
workers in the forests Of America? Why thereis mem
lbershp Of about amilllon the A. T. of =
to-day
His definition Of trades autonomy and his co1den
nation Of it will do for school boys essay is ty
and meaningless to the who have for wears ii
the labor movement and who know something of the d
eulties that loom mountain high the work of organiza
lion Before man can think about his class he must
link about his children for this is but human and SO
there separate trades unions IS not because Sam
lGOmpers bold and bad enough to invent them BIN
because they grew out of the minds who were try
ing to put food IN the bellies Of Self preser
aon is the first law and that isWhy the brcayer takes
care OF himself before he will take care Of the hodcarrer
But changing industrial conditions arenow making in
see that he best take Of himself by also taking
care OF the hodcarrier and industrial federation coming
or that reason alone, not because heart or nina a.
grown suddenly different. When the f. w w tells Lin
10 let go Of his union is like telling struggling MAJ
overheard to let go OF his life belt founder for shore
But the l. W. w. flaw-pcker says you haven t got in
lustrasm until you have all the members Of the building
trades working under working card It may surprise
aim to know that this is exactly what have in Wheen
now We got this before he came here and we hav
the thing after he goes away to where the picking
will be better And theI W. W has notreached this point
Of solidarity in any city of the world Neither has the
W Gue pTOpOrCOu organized workers City OF
diversified industries have in Wheeling His claim
Of $50 locals and $4,000 textile members backed by no
oroof looks thin and fshy alongside Of the $4,000 local
unions OF the A. f. Of L. comprsnga membership of 007
$780, which is substantiated by the books that show this
number actually pay monthly dues This the records ac
tualy prove, but the w W. fault finder finds much
to last years statement m the hpoe that the
unthnking will believe that the Majority editor exagger
lated.
That the already organized represent much larger
gent OF the organzabe workers thahe would have us
believe is apparent to all but an l. w. W. who blind be-
cause he will not see The 65OO0OOO members of the
working class include the babies and gndparents CAM
talsm is reaching for both but hardly call them
organizabe Even he cuts this to 330O000O. Now when
ut is considered what natural proportion Of this number
are by the very nature OF their employment made prac
Hcay unorganzable, being will dispute that
is surely all that hope to bind together
in militant labor unionism And the existing Labor I'M
ions have not per cent, but 20 per cent IF these
The Majority did not say that there is choice of oc
cupat1on under capitalism The statement was ct is
true that there is choice OF occupation under capital
from under capitalism and line up with the workers.
Didn't Debs do it? Couldn't he be drawing nice salary
working for Hearst did he not prefer to keep his con
science and his manhood? Didn't Marx turn his hack
upon life Of and public plaudits and face condemn
ing world and working class from the garrett windows of
London? They could have whined that there was nc
chOlce and kept living upon the drppngs from the table
ct the commercial pirates Of the land but they didn't
That is the difference between them and capitalist hang
eon who cuts by far sorrier picture than he would in
/ the ranks OF the unemployed
10 twist and gafbe is the stock in trade of the w
w dsrupter and him at it again The Majority
editor did not decline challenge to debate with any
body he simply referred the challenger to the party whom
writer would necessarily have to represent The So
calst Party by the decisive vote Of to g. has declared
by constitutional amendment against the only tactics
that the l. w w has advocated which A. f. of t. indus
trasts are not also advocating Berger fahered that
amendment Debs, IN letter to W E. Waling published
few weeks ago in the Majority condemned the T. W W
|unequivocably.
The L v. W. victories at Lawrence, Little Falls
and Marysville were "won'' not by the W W but by
assistance rendered the strikers by the other
workers of the country and the Socialist Congressman
Victor Berger. ST. John, Trautman and Haywood have