Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-01-08

longing to other crafts would refrain
from using the goods condemned how
long would such struggle last? It
would soon come 10 an end. so 1t
is without s.ag into unnecessary de-
tails when ;a lboring craft comes
out for W. IS right and just, anoth-
er who's ~ is connected with them
helps mad sertenly to defeat them.
The way il should be done things
would be decidedly more encouraging
if every Union great and small would
form a National organization ard
next who's work helps in an indirect
way to deftat him refuses to NATL,
fandle or buy the products OF tie
company that refuses to recognize
him. The Unions are just like that
old fellows family inasmuch as they
are family together fighting for tie
same object, better wages, better con-
ditions and a brighter outlook for
their children so why not do just like
the old gentleman illustrated, bind
themselves altogsccer then WE
CAN'T LOSE.
The Snb-Efst1lct, No. 5 officials
were quite busy 81 week settling
up minor grievances IN tie different
mines in the Sub-Distrlct. With run
of mine many of the petty troubles
of today would be eradicated as when
it would make no difference to the
miners wether the company used the
right gage bars or not to screen coal
and also wether the coal was crush
e d or nto Today this is the cause
of a great deal of the trouble.
Moving pictures or as they are get
ting to be called Motion pictures are
becoming one of the greatest aids TO-
wards education to the common class
of people than anything else at the
present day. Instead of foolish comedy
and blood and thunder pictures Deang
shown dramas and plays from some
of the best writers in the world are
being put on the screen and it is no
! longer necessary to go to "a hlgn
priced theatre in order to see Shake
speare or any of the other great works
Of other centuries but simply to the
five cent movie.
That nothing, but domestic trade is
being loaded is given credence by the
fact that what mines are working on
the C. & P. are leading nothing but
small wooden cars where if it was
coal to be shipped out of the country
drop bottom steel hoppeis would be
used. The Pultney mine IS operating
about four days per weeA and Inc com
pany order to give the men a Xmas
pay loaded two weeks a.-ead of their
| orders.
Doesn t it sort of gave you a funny
feeling around the heart Mi. Henry
Dubb when you know that you have
roiled for the past year every day ano
IN some cases part of the night AND
still you are unable to give your lit
tie children anything for Xmas but
little cheap candy and a couple OF
) and 10 cent store toys while your
master who never did an honest days
work in his life buys his children au-
Itomobiles, ponies apd other costly
gifts which would probably take youl
years wages to buy. Still your the boy
yho paid for it all and you haven't
iperceptive powers enough to know it
Inthe case of the men who los,
heir lives in the blowing up of the
dIcan coal mine at New Castle,
Colorado, it was terrible judgement.
eey were mostly men who had never
1 .
/ the mine not with the intention OF
working for a living or because they
| we're forced to but simply to compel
ia bunch of half starved, under paid
miners to return to work and turn
down their organization. To more
fully emphasize the character of the
boys they were scabbing against them
(the strikers) were the first ones to
risk their lives in an effort to rescue
them. No doIbt because they were
the sons of rich people an investiga-
ton will be held and some 60 dollars
a month mine foreman will be sent
up for couple of years but it only
goes to show that God is no respector
of persons they all loog alike to him.
An incident which was quite anus
ing happened on Shadyside car oi
the Wheeling Traction one day last
week when the writer CHANGED to over
hear the conversation, of a Bellaire
lawyer and some business man who
appeared to be a stranger TO this end
of the country. According to informa-
ton given by the lawyer coal miners
average anywhere from four to six
dollars day and still were a most
dissatisfied bunch. Probably the gen
tleman in question would have been
astonished if he had known that a
miners wages really average about
$3.50 per day.
The Big Run mine. below Bellaire
which is owned by the Grand Trunk
System intends to close down in a
few weeks in order to build new
tipple as the one used at present is
not large enough to accommodate
their output, new switch will also
be put in SO that more railroad cars
can be held as in the past this mine
has been compelled to work six hours
per day owing to their switch not hold
ing enough empty cars.
Work continues slow in most of the
mines in Eastern Ohio but a general
resumption Isl expected soon
By the death benefit which Pultney
local maintains the relatives of frank
Greenwood who's death is recorded
elsewhere, will be benefited to the
extent of nearly four hundred dollars
The delegates from the different To-
Gals will leave the nth and 18th for