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Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-02-26

Thursday might BARRIERS No. 257
held an open session at their quarters
in the Mutual bank building, that
was an unqualified success from
every point of view. It Isl the first
affair Of the kind ever given by the
Jounneynnen BARRIERS and its success
was so great that it made them all
wish that they mad held more in the
past, but determined to hold more in
the future.
Invitations had been extended to
the employing BARRIERS and the Organ
ization Committee, and through them
to the interested members of other
crafts, and the hall was filled to over
flowing. William Pasco presided most
efficiently, and the speaking was in
tersperced with music by the Gump
Saxophone orchestra and excellent so
los by Lawrence Stein. The speak
ers were: ]. b. Moore, l.. F. Sprouce,
President Thomas Gilhgan of the
Trades Assembly, c. E. Bartlebaugh,
Leo J. LaFlam, Walter B. Hilton and
Egbert Clemens. The refreshments
consisted of fruit punch made in Wal
ter Norris own way, and all kinds of
sandwiches.
The committee in charge comprised
John Mcnamara, William Pasco, Sam
Ruff, Harry Krueger, T. W. Colts.
Street Car Men
w. ID. Mahon, international presi-
dent of the Street and Electric Rail-
way Employees, is listed as the chief
speaker at the open meeting to be held
| by Division 103 at the Trades Assem-
| bly, hall Thursday evening, March 3.
Others who will deliver very brief
talks are Rev. Dysinger, Rev. Jones,
l.. ]. Latham, Walter lB. Hilton, A. v.
Fisher, H. P. Corcoran and John J.
Lewis, A. F. of u. organizer.
The meeting is In line with the Get
Together meetings being held thru
out Wheeling by the various unions
now in order that all the organized
workers may become better acqua1n-
ted with each other. Refreshments
will be served consisting OF sandwich
es, pickles, coffee, cakes, and stog1es.
The Street Car boys extend a general
invitation to all ia partake OF their
hospitality on this occasion, and there
is no doubt that the invitation will be
generally accepted.
| The following is the committee IN
charge: G. E. BartleDaugn, chairman
Coleman Sharp, William Barnes, =: L.
iPadden, o. M. Smith, Bert Crumle y
Charles Drahr. The fesuVlues Will
begin at 8 p. m.
Pottero Mo- "a
Tuesday, March 10, is the date set
for the .sbliz" of Potters Union No. %,
At Dueker,s hall, Twenty seventh and
Chapline streets.
mis- local has recently been making
most rand strides, in the way Of prac-
tical industrialism, having taken into
Imembership number of workers here
tofore not protected by the onganza-
tion Al q consequence the local is
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-02-26
PRICE THREE CENTS
More Strike
Breakers Leave
\
Elm Grove

Another bunch Of strike breakers,
who were imported by the Elm Grove
Coal Company in their effort to break
the strike at their mine, have packed
their belongings and left for good, and
they told the same story, of having
been induced to go to work under
promise of good wages and opportun
tiles and that no surike was in pro-
ress. After working awhile, they
found conditions so bad that they de-
manded of the Coal company that one
of their number be put on the tipple
to weih the coal This the company
refused to do, but instead they put
one of their oldest hirelings, named
Champion, ON the tipple.
The scabs evidently could not get
square deal from him, and having
no organization, the only thin left
for. them to do, was to pack up and
go which they are doing, And so the
strike continues, and will continue I'M
til this company will treat with the
miners and recognize the union.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-02-26

penneG in four rooms in one shack,
while in another four rooms are the
small number of fourteen scabs, this
is according to the word of the scabs
themselves. They tramp back and
forth to the hole in the hill, while
their bosses remain in palaces. There
lis vast comparison between the
homes of the masters of the mine and
the scab quarters.
The scabs are digging what coal is
being dug, while the masters are reap
ing the harvest. 1t will only be a
question of time until even the scabs
will rebel and Chambers and his gang
will be compelled to secure additional
scabs, this will continue on and on,
and in time possibly the master will
find that it will be impossible to take
the coal with Inn to the Great Be
yond." From all Indications there will
be plenty of coal in the place where
he is going. He will have scabs again
to fire for him and when he is brought
face to face with the men whom are
his equal he will then possibly have
time to push aside the shackles, or
dollars and converse with his class.
There is no danger of the strikers TAX
ing anything with them at present,
and if they stick they will need no
coal.
The citizens of the town of Elm
Grove are with the strikers and they
are getting tired of the class that is
being pushed upon them by the opera
tor of the coal company. They are
not safe to leave their homes for var
ious reasons and the children find a
much safer place within doors than
out on the streets.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-02-26
Committee Will
Make Full Report

Owing to the non arrival of the en-
tire committee, a full report could not
be made Ito the Trades Assembly at
it's meeting Sunday Of the work of the
special committee appointed to carry
to Washington and present to the
president the petition asking for an
investigation of the judicial conduct
of Judge Dayton. This report will
be given in full at the next meeting
of the central body. IL.
A verbal report, however, was made,
by which the delegates were informed
that the committee had carried out
it's instructions to the letter and sue
ceeded in personally presenting the
grievance and the petition to the presi-
dent, and that President Wilson had
promised, to refer the request to the
Department of Justice. ~
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-02-26
Victor |. Berger
Defends Strikers

Hancock, Mich. Feb. 27-(Special)
In order to clear up the exact re-
lation fthe Socialist Party to the
strike of the copper miners in north
ern Michigan and present to the Con-
greSsional committee the reasons that
moved the Socialists to action in the
matter, former Congressman Victor l..
Berger appeared before the committee
Tuesday, February IT,
In order to get the exact facts, Ber-
ger told the committee, the Socialists
had appointed Charles Edward Russell
Seymour Stedman, and himself COM
mittee to visit the copper regions and
ascertain the truth. They had gone
to the strike district in January. and
had made a report to the Socialist
Party, copy of which he presented to
the Congressional committee, which
accepted it and made it a part of the
records.
Goes Into Records
Attorneys for the mine owners made
the report, but Chairman Taylor over
ruled them and it was entered
The work of the Socialist Party in
placing the information it had obtain
ed before the workers of the country
was described, and Howell, of the COM
mittee, asked if the Socialist Party
claimed the credit for bringing the in
vestigatng committee to the copper
country.
1--WE helped" was the reply. 1--WE
touched the springs that released the
human sympathies of the members of
Congress
81 want to state" he said, 'that the
Socialist Party absolutely had nothing
to do with calling the strike or for
Inenting it. When the strikers got
hard up they appealed to US for help
early in September. The national
Socialist party to February 1, 1914,
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-02-26
ELM GROVE MINE HAS
+. SCAB AS CHECKWE|GHMAN

The management of the Elm Grove
mine tried what they evidently be
lieved to be slick trick when they
made a scab a "checkweighman" at
the mine. They probably thought they
could go before the public with that
story, and that the public would never
stop to think that a checkweighman
appointed by the company was no
acknowledgment at all for the only
reason for the existence of a check
weighman is that the men shall have
IA man appointed by themselves. to
check UP the weight announced by
the company
When this strike is won, one of the
conditions will be that this scab check
weighman shall be dismissed.
Are Going to Win
The miners at Elm Grove are going
to whip the Chambers monopoly to
a standstill notwithstanding that the
company S able Ito place a few colored
scabs within the hole in the hill once
in a while. 1t is also true that there
are a few white skinned men, also class
ed with blacks as plain scabs, there
is no other word that will fit them,
except scab. The miners are stick
ing and they are going to continue
to stick. The worst of the winter is
past and they are preparing to renew
the fight for living conditions with
more energy than ever, backed by the
thousands and thousands of members
of the United Mine Workers
Huddled together within shack,
in the rear of the company store at
Elm Grove are the "scabs." Twenty
nine of these scabs are said to be
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-02-26
Garfield Local Elects

Garfield Local No. d, National Stogie
Makers League, elected the following
officers for the year at its last regu-
lar meeting, the election being by the
referendum system:
president, A. G. Wheeler; Vice Pres
ident. James Scalley; Rec. Sec. Geo.
Wagner; Fin. Sec, T. H. LeBaron;
Treasurer, Edw. lMcIlwain; Trustees,
Fred c. Herzer. H. J. Burger, Chas.
Kies,
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-02-26
Report LoCke'S
Unfair

At the meeting of the Ohio Valley
Trades and Labor Assembly last Sun
day more than an hour was given to
discussion of the situation at the
Locke shoe stores in this city. Some
of the delegates stated that the i'm
preston was held by some people
that the Locke stores had come to an
agreement with the Clerks Union
which is not correct. The delegates
were instructed to report to. their IN
ions that the Locke shoe stores had
not signed with the union and that
there was not one single union clerk
employed at either of their stores.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-02-26

thriving and the prospects are good.
The open meeting will be in the ma
ture Of a celebration of this progress
and preparation for even greater
strides in the future.
The committee in charge comprises
Thomas Gilligan, Harry Hazlett, Pat
Elwood, Howard Hilton and William
Meigle A national officer of the Bro
therhood will speak and a number of
local orators will contribute to the
program which will also include music
and refreshments.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-02-26

armed private army, paid by the COM
panies and sworn in as deputies.
These Things went even further in
their viciousness than the militiamen
Some of them shot and killed three
strikers while these were seated at the
supper table in their boarding house.
Two were arrested, charged with
murder. The Calumet & HecIa Min
Ing Co. went their bonds to the tune of
$40, 900. They continued to serve as
deputy sheriffs, though every one in
the copper country knew they were
guilty of the murder. r.
To. quote Government Investigator
Palmer again:
Much evidence, some of which re-
suited in fatalities, was provoked by
the armed deputies imported by the
mining companies !"
Contrary to all predictions by the
companies and their hirelings the
strikers remained firm. Winter was
approaching. The organized workers
fsOwTKN FrreE1 ON PACE
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-02-26
PAN PANDLE STRIKE
In BETTER SHAPE

The strike Of the miners in the up
per Pan Handle is in better shape than
ever, from the view point of the min
ers.
The Pittsburgh-West Virginia Coal
company officials have alienatated the
little support they had from the bust
ness interests by their insulting dis
regard for the proposal for arbitration
offered by the business men. The
miners, it. can be authoritively stated,
are willing to arbitrate, always have
been. and always will be-. In fact,
they are only striking to secure what
is supposedly guaranteed them by the
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-02-26
TAKE NATURALIZATION
EXAMINATION.

The following Comrades went
through the preliminary examina-
lions to secure the naturalization:
Charles Moravee
Louis Beznoska
Ed Krain
Anton Krob
Frank Carhol
Frank Latochra All.
Vendelin Uruzek
Witnesses: Frank Bluff, Stephen
Herink.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-02-26
Moose Carbaret And
Minstrel Promise Success

,, The Cabaret and Minstrel to be
inv Sm en- under the auspi es of Wheel
Ne ,Ie Lodge No. 81, Loyal Order of
9Cuss' at the Court Theatre, March
mo anu 3, promises to be one of the
ev vS: successful events of the kind
e' ct held in the city.
per rae AFFAIR is under the direct SUI
eorra asion of Professor Gerber, who.
Snnsss Mighty recommended by the
eine officers of the Order and of
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-02-26

laws of the stateEthe right to oran1ze
a union r.
Eight Months Sentence
The wheels of the law move with ex-
ceeding quickness when striking
worker is beneath the wheel, as shown
by the proceedings i'm the case of
Charles Neidhofer last week.
Within three days he was arrested,
indicted by the grand jury, tried,
found guilty and started on a sentence
of eight months- in jail and fine of
500, on the charge ofsdnciting to riot
The people are looking in vain for
the sentencing of some thugs employ
ed by the company.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-02-26

the various lodges who have held
similar affairs.
,;.t - of att T,- and II is certain
ths. tba theatre win be crowded on
Satk 5svs THE committee reports q
rush of ticket buyers even at TINS
early stage. The Moose are seinng
tickets at so cents, and q limited
number can be reserved for % cents
extra
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-02-26
CHARLES RYAN ~

Charles D. Ryan, for many years ac-
tive in local union circles and late
treasurer of the Assembly, is i'll at
his home in East Wheeling, fact
which his many friends will deeply
regret
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-02-26
MRS. zocc DEAD

Mrs. Leonard Zogg, wife Of the
well known watch maker of Elm
Grove, died at their home thursday
morning of paralytic stroke, two
hours after the attack. She was GO
years OF age, and she and her hus-
Oandr came here from Switzerland
many years ago. She was loved for
ler kindly disposition and her death
mas IA been a shock to the community.
me deepest sympathy is extended
ner husband in his bereavement, and
~ Inc surviving children. Mr.. Zogg
is a veteran Socialist.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-02-26
7GET-T0GE7HER' meetings
GROW STEADILY IN INTEREST
COMING EVENTS

~" = - - @IN7TO w."
BARRIERS, Thursday, Feb. 2e.
Street Car Men, Thursday, March
5.
Potters No. 2s, Tuesday, March 10
9artenders.
Stationary Firemen.
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r'N#~FwV~N oN ~AGA !
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-02-26

In the Ohio Valley--The
workshop of the world
catering to 125, 900 Indus
trial Population.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1914-03-25
Reward Offered.

/ will pay ss5 in cash for the ap
prehension and evidence to eonvlc'
the party or parties who about
the 18th OF December took a
pair of shafts from a buggy in my
shop yard and who on the night oi
January 81 took a wheel from, !"
buggy in my yard. am determined
to apprehend and punish the guilts
plrties il possible.
w. II. Powell.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1914-03-25
Home-kaistd Cot.

Still the wonder grows that greater
number of farmers do not raise
more horses and males. Several
days ago Mr.. W. i. Hinn sold q
home-raised colt to mis- BROTHER. Mr
J. K. Wiun, for $500 Those who
saw the fine young mare say she.
was great bargain ~ that price.
The VIM bru,!.srS c4n %""rd to
keep brood mares, hecalse they al
ways grow an abundance Of corn al
home to 81 ppIy the farm.
The Washington times., 1914-10-14

cup:cd with the address of President
Terry and the reports OF the secretary
and executive committee.
President Terry said that the confer
ence must follow up the passage OF
uniform laws By obtaining uniform de-
cisions and interpretations. TIE char
acterized law as the builder and the
restraining influence of civilization and
pointed TO the European war as
porteatous illustration of the fact that
without a governing law torce rules.
President Terry urged action IN a
uniform incorporation to protect in
vestors and minority stockholders. and
to put ar end to the policy Of many
States in prosututing their corpora ton
forms to get taxation money. Offering
all sorts Of inducements that carried
many privileges and did not protect in
veStors.
He strongly urged action on unifor.?
workman's compensation act. and a.
act looking to the uniformity Of medical
laws.
Clarence n. Woclley gave notice Of
his intention to resign. The report Of
the executive committee was presented
by William Fl. Stake.
The Washington times., 1914-10-14
What War MOUeS Mean
BY J. w. T. MASON.

NEW YORK. Oct. IA Oh a. m).-
GeTmany's campaign in Poland,
which is now beginning to develop
its offensive strength, has been con-
Quoted in ITS carly stages with great
skill. 1t seems now evident that the
advance on Warsaw was skillfully
masked by the recent operations 100
to $50 niles further north, in the
Nicmen river district The Rus
slams apparently mistook the German
advance toward the 'Ntemen as the
cnemy's main objective.
Even the ability of the second and
third class Russian fortresses in
nrrth Poland to Withstand the Ger
men attacks while the powerful
French and Belgian fortitications
were falling Gid not open the eyes
of the Russian general staff. The
fact is now seen to be that the sue
cessful resistance OF these Polish
forts was due to the meager German
forces s"rt against them. While
the RuSsiarS were hurrying over
whelming armies across the Niemen
and were triumphantly forcing the
Germans to retire toward East
Prussia, the real German offensive
was developing against War5aw.
The Washington times., 1914-10-14
Will Drive to Quaker
City for Convention

Several members of the Washington
section of the Electric Vehicle Associa-
tion of America are planning to drive
to Philadelphia in electric passenger
cars, to attend the national convention
of the association on october 10, 20, and
q.
The party will leave Washington early
Saturday morning, taking lunch in Bal
Bel-Air or Havre de Grace, continuing
on to Philadelphia the next day. with q
stop at Wilmington for lunch. They
expect to return on the 22d or I'D, after
taking In the entire convention.
A number of the other members of the
section go to the convention by train
on Monday.
The Washington times., 1914-10-14
MALES ARE 81 AUGHTERED.

The countryside around this place,
near the Russian frontier, where the
Cars forces for time reformed to
fight against the overwhelming pressure
OF the German lines forcing them back,
was ravaged terribly. The Russian SOL
diery took full revenge, for their defeat,
on the women. Catholic sisters and
Young girls bore cruelties worse than
torture OF the battlefield, and were left
dying as the hordes passed on.
The Russians killed every male they
encountered who was Of military age.
The countryside has been stripped of all
OF its men between fourteen and forty
five. Older men, who feebly protested
were ruthlessly slaughtered
Nor was this horror confined to the
country near Neidenburg. The Russian
investment of KoniSsberg was accom-
panied by the same riot of lust. At Alb
schwangen. a tiny village ten miles
women were shot. including eight boys
between fourteen and nineteen.
heard the stories of some of those who
witnessed the inferno Of blood and
slaughter and pillage.
The father Of a fourteen-year-old
hoy. his eyes bloodshot with days Of
weeping. told me how the Cossacks.
shot down the little group. one by one.
They were not killed in one volley,
he said. The Russians shot them
one by one. My wife and myself got
on our knees and prayed to God that
our boy might be spared. We saw him,
his hands outstretched to us in un-
Availing appeal. that we aid him. They
bound my wife and myself together
and forced us to see our own baby
for he was only a mere child-fall
before their bullets. as he cried TO us
To aid him
Here at Abschwangen also. j went to
the sickbed, perhaps the deathbed. Of
Young widow, who raved in her delirium
Of the horrors she had witnessed. The
Cossacks forced her to stand at win
dow TO witness the shooting down in the
garden OF her husband of a month, her
vcnty-threa-year-old father. and her
siNty-twO-ye old father-in-law by three
COsSaCks.
Pastor Rocket, at Griesdenen. told me
how his brother was gored to death by
q CossaCk who prodded the dead body
with his lance and gouged the eyes out:
Al Ortclsberg. those who witnessed
the Russian retreat told me how the
Cossacks locked four defenseless per-
sons, including a deaf and dumb man
end child Of twelve, in house, and
then set fire to the building. i saw the
blaCkened ruins of the home.
From an eighty-two-year-old inmate
or the poor house at Santoppen ! heard
OF more murder, sickening in its very
WantonnesS.
Thirteen of our villagers" he said.
were lined up beside the road and
for the death Of VillaSer hOnorably
killed in action the day before. In
that thirteen We're our village school
teacher, several priests and OLD men
OF the town. Their own crime, indeed
the only one the Russians accused
The Washington times., 1914-10-14
TOday's War
Summary

P0RTUGAL-Reported that the
cabinet has called a session of con-
gress for Friday for mobilization
Of troops; entry into war as Eng
lands ally expected.
RUSSIA-Heavy fighting re-
ported in neighborhoed of Warsaw.
Russian troops stemming advance
of Germans.
ENGLAND-Numerical strength
Of fcrces in South African revolt
still undetermined, but indications
are it is confined to one section
under German influence. Allied
forces reported moving southwark
out of 0stend for better strategical
position.
FRANCE-General French as
sault On German center believed
impending. Allied forces holding
fast attempted encircling move
ment by General Won Boehm.
BELGIUM-Belgian army, under
King Albert, with allied forces
making ready to meet German ad-
vance on Channel ports.
GER MANY - Two columns
sweeping forward and nearing
North sea ports in Belgium and
France. German advance 70 left
continues successfully.
The Washington times., 1914-10-14
URGES SIMPLE LAWS
TO CHECK FORCE
President of Conference on
State Laws Recommends
Uniform Legislation.

Force will rule where law is not
simple. uniform. and applicable, said
President Charles T. Terry Of the Ma
tional Conference of Commissioners
on State Laws in the New Willard
today.
The law" he said. will never reach
that high point where passion and
force ma ybe checked, until the law is
simple and uniform, and the people
know and understand their rights and
obligations under 1t.
commissioners from every State in
the Union and the Territories were
welcomed by Commissioner Slddons, a
former member Of the conference.
The entire morning session was oc-