Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-01-01
Coal Operators augurate Reign of Terror In Golfers
Company S Armed Thugs
Shoot Up Miners Tents

by company hirelings, unoffending
men have been assaulted families
nave been broken up, and workers who
have harmed nobody have been drag
ged before a prejudiced court and
jailed or held unGer $500 bail, while
the thugs hired by the slave driving
masters, caught in the act of shooting
to kill-have been released without
BAIL
And IN addition to this Judge Day
ton OF the Federal Court, grants in
functions against the helpless strikers
and halls them before him for viola
tlon OF his own injunction-but there
IS never an injunction against the
coal barons or their hirelings.
Humane Agent lnterferes.
So serious is the condition of many
families brought in to Golfers as
breakers by the West Virginia and
Pittsburgh coal comapny, that State
Humane Agent Sheldon Joseph made
q preliminary investigation last We'd
nesday. One case in particular was
called to his notice, that of a family
Of the name of Graham, no were
lnNelgled from Moundsville to Col
Tiers upon the false representation of
the company's agents, only to be left
penn1less and hungry, charge upon
charity They had to beg enough 20
get back to Moundsyille Many cases
like this are occurring, and it is sew
ereiy taxing the. capacity of the union
to care for the striking miners and
their fellows go down into their own
depleted pockets to help out their IN
fortunate brothers, the victims Of the
greed of the coal barons.
What Constitutes a Fence
AS sample of the sort OF evidence
dragged into a court Of supposed law.
and which is accepted by a Justice
OF the peace against the strikers, It
may be stated that in one of the many
baseless- .casese brought against strik.
ers by the coal company, Superintend.
ent Virgin testified before Squire
Glass in Wellsburg last week, in q
"trespass" case, that he considered
two posts, fifty feet apart, to consti-
tute a fence!" 1t is tres pass to break
through such a fence! That is, If
you are a striker. ~
DastardIy Crime
Z A dastardly crime Is charged against
Assistant Superintendent Bilderbeck
in connection with the shooting I'D Of
the strikers tents at Golfers. The
charge is made that Bilderbeck offered
$50 to one of the boys to shoot through
the tent at man who was particu-
larly active in behalf of the strike. The
boy has made a confession to this eff
feet, but no injunction has been is
sued against the assistant superin-
tendent, and it is even impossible to
get him in Jail.
1T seems that after a particularly
vicious assault upon the strikers, this
Bilberbeck hastens to Wellsburg and
has warrants sworn out against the
innocent strikers first, before they can
get into court, and thus gets that ad-
vantage over them
Offer High Wages
The company is becoming SO des-
perate in its hunt for strike breakers
Fthat it is offering IS and $6 a day to
strangers to come to Golfers, promis-
ing them these, wages if they will but
go in the mines, regardless of wheth-
er they do any actual work But the
company fools them, as it has been
fooling its other workers for the past
| years, and they do not really see the
S. or Sc.
work or jail!
. Rocco RaccuSo makes the charge
that he was offered the choice be-
tween going to Jail and going to work
as Iscab in the Golfers mine. TonY
/ Amicone states that Raccuso sudden
lily disappeared, and they looked for
him for days without avail, going to
the various jails, and then learned fin.
ally tifat he had been taken to the
| Schmulbach building in this city, to
the office Of an alleged detective
agency, and there frightened with the
threat of Jail unless he went to work
in Golfers. He cannot speak English
and so the hounds succeeded. It was
! 10 days, Amicone testifies, before
/ they located him, so secretely had
these thugs worked lin the name of
the law"
viii Fight Harder
| The strike will be prosecuted hard<
er than ever. The men are determin-
ed that this shall be the entering
wedge of unionism into the Pan Ham
| die district of West Virginia, anu that
injunctions or no injunctions, every
mine worker who wants to join the
union and protect himself and family
by adding his trength to the strength
of his fellow workers, shall be given
that protection.
| The men are undaunted in spite of
all the array of force that has been
made against them. They are fight
ing harder every day, and they win
fight until the babrarism at present
practiced in Golfers shall be made i'm
possible In civilized state. Gun men
and thugs must go, they say, and the
workers. the real producers of Wealth.
must be treated hereafter as human
beings in the Pan Handle district Of
West Virginia. No longer, they say.
shall the Ohio river be the dividing
line between America ana Little Rus
STA, between freedom and slavery.
| And in this fight they will be back
led by the three adjoining districts OF
the United Mine Workers and by all
the other unionists OF the entire val.
How and tho fhaoo 0Kaf1u