Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-06-18
Wheeling Labor
Condemns I.W.W.
Calls Upon Mine Workers of Eastern
Ohio to Beware Of Rainbow Prom
ises Of False Leaders

Tho agitation now being carried ION
IN eastern Ohio among the mine
Iorkers by Joseph Ettor and others
~ hahalf of the L. w. w. was roundly
condemned b ythe Ohio Valley Trades
and Labor Assembly Sunday after
noon.
.nmous, the delegates, representing
more than forty various organiza-
lions being a unit in their firm belief
hat the l. W. w. agitation can have
mn possible effect other than disorgan-
Ting the workers and, by destroying
the present organizations, leave the
workers helpless in the face of capt.
talist oppression.
Ettor and his bunch have been work
ing hard among the miners for weeks.
They have seized upon this oppor-
unity to spread their propaganda,
when the men are in strike, and,
therefore, excited. They have held
meetings and lacked them, and organ
lied marches, all with the purpose of
Gscrediting the officers and destroy
hg the organization. They have ad-
mcated persistently the violation of
the United Mine Worker/ laws, and
are doing everything possible to make
impossible a settlement of the wage
ouestion which has now reached such
a serious proportion in Ohio.
The Letter.
Following is Me claryion of the
Trades Assembly, addressed to the
Mine Workers:
Wheeling, W., Va, June 1S, 1914.
To the Mine Workers of Eastern Ohio,
Dear Brothers:
The Ohio Valley Trades & Labor
Assembly, representing more than
forty local unions of varied crafts and
callings, with a record of more than
third of a century of constructive
effort, and active present and the nope
for future in which even more bene-
fetal effort can be put forth in be-
half of the toiling class, hereby con-
dems the movement styling itself the.
industrial Workers of the World" and
condemns the agitation now being put
forth in Eastern Ohio by one Of its
self appointed leaders and urge upon
The mine workers that they support
with loyalty the organization that Of
the United Mine oWrkerS of America.
We call your attention to some facts
and beg that you be. guided by the
experience of the working class, and
act in an intelligent and reasonable
manner, and not allow yourselve to
be swayed by a baseless appeal to
your passions, which cannot possibly
have any other effect than to lead
mt ond I00Vn
you in the end without the protection
Of any organization.
No Short Cut.
There is no short cut to economic
freedom. If there were, the workers
would have attained 1t long since.
The labor movement of America to-
day represents the intelligence of the
workers who compose it; its officials
represent the rank and file. 1t may
be that some workers are more in
teligent than the majority, it may be
that they are more intelligent than
their officials, but If this is true, they
are in the minority. And, being In
the minority they ought to show their
intelligence by submitting to the ma
lority, and content themselves by pre-
senting their arguments to their fell
LOW worers until enough agree with
them to make the minority into a ma
Nrity, and then their ideas will pre-
vail, and the organization Will con-
urn to their desires.
ANY other course, any attempt TO
,ofee quick passage over their Eel
low workers. who do not agree with
mem 10 GfCoCtnT &NhIc
mas been proved by hundred of cases
within the recollection Of all OF us.
and no more clearly than in the record
Of the l. W. w. itself. This organiza
uon launched seven years ago, with
ae boast that it was to, fevolutionize
Tue American Labor movement, ano
calming to have enrolled since ther
more than 100000 workers, is today
Epnt IN many fractions and their head
secretary treasurer admitted last
week before the Federal Industrial
admissions that there were now only
1900 members. D
II has not funds and no means o.
iaeiplng the workers whom it deludes
mo Joining. 1t never had any funds
aug all the money given out to thu
sufferers in the strikes it has caused
MA mas been donated by the United Mine
s"VrKers and other organizations whom
= now seeks to disrupt. Men lik'
s'.or and Haywood have been drag
ssa from behind prison bars and evel
hOn the very gallows by the mem
Uss OF the Labor unions in America
toy 800 800 80
~, Miserable Fate.
i. Miserable indeed win be your fat
you listen to their rainbow prom
S ses We as you to choose betweel
e @sir empty promises, and the rea
ises a of the genuine labor ur
M OF america, such as the Unite
c ,%rne Workers. The !. w. w. has az
t ,naLs nothing but its own de;
r.uesuon. and left upon the miserabl
s az OF poverty those deiuded worl
. &c VINO believed in their false pleds
en-. When they struck they had
W.. their help not from the /. v
s NJ out nom the other unions in d,
SOos. When they lost there wa
IpastiRsss q Raep s.