Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-06-18

no big international to help. them.
And they have done nothing but lose,
as a is proved b ytheir awindling mem
Union Accomplishments.
On the other hand the bona fide un-
ions, of America have done things.
They have increased wages, shorten
ed hours, improved working condi-
tons and protected their members.
True it is that they have not done
everything that could be wished, but
they have done all thet workers. could
understand. They will do more Just
as soon as the workers who compose
them understand more. What privi-
leges you coal miners enjoy were won
for you by the United Mine Workers
OF America and the allied unions of
this country. The reason that you
have no more than you have is that
there are about 300,vv0 coal miners
still outside your organization. If
the l. W. W. organization is sincere,
and want to help you, ask him why he
does not go down into Alabama, ant.
Tennessee, and West Virginia and 9th.
er places where the miners are not
organized but are scabbing on you
today, and sending coal into your own
state. It would be far drawer for
them to go down there and organize
them, and stop them from digging the
coal, than to try to stop that. coal
after it is being brought on the rail
road.
They say General strike" but they
have nobody to strike with you Tell
them that you are in a union now,
that you have paid your dues and done
your part, and that the only reason
why you have not more money in
your treasury p that you have paid it
out to them in their strikes. Tell
them to return the favor now, to give
you money to help you in your pre-
sent trouble, and to go out and or
ganize the workers or the mines or
other states who are scabbing on you
today. 49,.
This is the advice OF the Ohio Val
ley Trades and Labor Assembly, an
organization of all the different trades
Of this district bound together in one
central body with the idea that the
injury to one is the concern of all, and
the belief that, no matter what trade
or industry d wage Gamer is in, that all |
wage workers are brothers and sis |
ters. We have tried to help you in |
your strikes and your troubles. We |
have held mass meetings for you, we
have circulated petitions, we, have
raised funds, and We have brought i'm
parchment proceedings against q I'm
ted States Judge because we thought
he was servile tool of organization
and being used against you. All of
his time the 4. w w. did nothing for
you. Therefore, we think we have
he right to ask you to listen, wnen
We tell you that the 1. W. w. is not
lble to help you, but that Is will
'ather destroy you, that it will not get
'ou more, but that if the false lead n
ITS succeed in fooling you, win set
'ou and your organization Of labor
Jack full fifty years, so that the long
md weary road win have to be clim-
d all over again, and instead of gain n
ng stiI more freedom for yourselves,
md leaving to your children a heri-
age Of happiness and social equality, III
'0u win condemn them to the tor
ures Of capitalist oppression in still III
worse form than you yourselves have
uttered.
Support the United Mine Workers Of
america, and we, the ah1liated unions
4 all kinds IN the Ohio Valley, win i
upport yOu
Yours for Freedom,
lAe 0h,e Valley Trades ~ labor