Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-10-09

/ ers of America produced overwhelln
, ing evidence to contradict ana rt4ute
the statements and claims OF the
operators.
This testimony will be printed in
full in the report of the Committee
and anyone who wishes may read and
see for himself.
Regarding the statement: We in
tend to elect conservative men to office
demagogues and agitators are a men
ace to business and we will drive the
radicals out it is audacious in the
extreme or the coal operators of West
Virginia to flaunt in the face of the
public that they have subscribed a
million dollars for the purpose of over
whelming a political party that polled
almost million votes in the last cleo
ton, and which has recently been rep
resented in the National House OF
Representatives.
Instead of eradicating Socialism in
West Virginia the coal operators have,
within few hours, made West Vir.
ginia' the storm center of the Social
list movement in America, and have
issued a challenge that Eugene V.
Debs, Victor L. Berger and the lead
ers Of the National Socialist Party
will not be slow to accept
The attorneys who advised the
coal operators to take such a position
have invited them to their ruin
When the conservatives unite, the
radicals unite, and when the class
line is drawn as is now by the opera
tors, the leaders of labor who are not
Socialists are forced to- a position
where if they combat Socialism they
may be accused of supporting the coal
operators. In other words, if in this
light should be compelled to take a
position between the Socialists and
the Coal Operators Protective Asso
citation ! would join the Socialists, but
of course the real object of the forma
ton of the Coal Operators Protective
Association is to prevent their men
from joining labor union, from hon
est weights and measurements through
a checkweighman and to continue to
compel them to deal with the com
pany store, the company doctor, the
company undertaken, the company
meat market and to take company in,
suranee.
4hO wal ApOA dIOAo IOICCblNO 40
ISOLATION has made the issue; has
thrown down the gauntlet, and while
reluctant to do SO, we will not be slow
in taking it up, and we will prepare
to meet the issue
eve have made this fight until now,
single handed and alone, since the
Coal Operators Protective Assertion
have invited all capitalists organiza-
tons to join with them to prevent
their men from joining the Union, we
viii now remind all men who toll, ali
men who are producers, that united we
stand, divided we fall, and that in
Union there Is strength
eve will therefore, take immediate
steps to secure the cooperation of ali
labor organizations, and all interests
friendly to labor Whatever the re
suit may be, the Coal Operators Pro
tective Association will be held re
sponsible. The Coal Miners will KEEP
within their rights, and within the
law. They viii ask for nothing that
| is not guaranteed them by the Con
stitutional and statutory law Of the
land. If force is used by the gunner
who will come to West Virginia, lured
/ by the gIamor of the million dollar
defense fund, we viii appea to the
government of West Virginia and X
the Fedora government through the
United States District Attorneys