Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-09-03
WE WILL NOW HAVE
A Feu Remarks

BY WALTER B. HILTON


IA /HEN LEWIS CAME HERE to secure central
Wv body aliation with the A. F. of L. he was asked to
confine his operations within the ranks OF the
workers. The Wheeling labor man saw only battle OF
ideas and not of men, and the deep desire OF all OF
them to keep the whole matter free Of bitterness and
rem Of any comfort to the enemies of Labor There
question but that affairs would have slowly but surely
worked to harmonious endlngWth the solidarity OF the
workers undsturbed
But Lewis for reasons Of his own, chose the course
calculated to do the greatest harm to the Wheeling Labor
movement although it might give him the easiest and
quickest paper victory By orcble obstetrics he dragged
forth stilbon iegtmate and called it 1.-The TrlClty
Assembly, It did not matter to him. apparently that the
Assembly did not contain one Wheeling local UNION
nor one from any section unseshy devoted TO the
constructive work Of organized labor OF this valley Ihe
name sounded big, and would do for report to the
effect that che had formed A. f. OF L. body IN heel
ing His report would probably not contain the above
facts not that the organization forced, without
even local for SINCE Office, and that he bued it
through with czar-ke tactics against the overwhelming
protests OF crowded hail. and Dy denying voice OIL VoCe
to those assembled
The organizations Of labor are the most democratic
bodies in existence and methods such his would
not countenanced in them but to be expected that
he should look for it's support from among the enemies OF
the workers. and spread his garbed he has done
in the pages Of the biased daes of Wheeling papers that
long ago entered into known pact with the merchants to
oppose the efforts of the local labor movement and which
give space his attacks today only because they believe
them to be damaging to the cause of Unionsm.
Another such article last week filled with the
sophistrv and nsnuations common the enemies of La
bor-poor material for supposed worker in the Cause
He attacked one Ohio Valley member in particular and
condemned the Ohio Valleys spending of the money to
send representatives to Washington to appeal to the oc
ials of the A. f. of J. to rot disrupt the Wheeling move
ment He knew that the whom he attacked was but
voicing the floor the instructions OF the Board OF Irs-
tees which, in it's turn but carrying out the wishes Of
the Ohio Valley Assembly, but the facts did not seem to
serve his purpose He knew too that the sending OF L.
j. Latham and A. " Fisher to Washington was an action
of the whole body taken unanimously and that the cost
was far less than the cost of keeping him here which also
is borne by the local through their per capita tax to
the a. f. Of L. and the only local return they have
ceved During all these years they have asked for F.
and have been met with the reply that there no
funds available and when they raise the money by an
additional tax upon themselves they have DONE and
proceed to try to organize without assistance funds are
suddenly found sufficient to send John L. Lewis here with
an assistant cost Of about 500 day. nuy the local
efforts
Lewis has no assembly and he will have. The
Belmont Assembly, in dssolvng without the consent OF
it's constituent unions, has not created Assembly
Nbu has left but one, the Ohio Valley in the field The
Ohio Valley therefore, must embrace all the workers in
this secon banding them together for their protec
ton and for their strengthening. This will broaden
the field of usefulness Of the Ohio Valley which for third
of century has been the tower of strength for the local
workers. and with charter in the A. F. of L., which will
finally with clearing up Of the situation there will
be genuine solidarity and unified progress that will be
model for all the other local Labor MOVEMENTS Of all the
land.
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- the commercial explanation of the conflict We are
in hoin told hat no hAVe