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Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-09-10
MAGNIFICENT Celebration
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ourths of their available membership
in line, all attired in white from head
to foot, they made splendid appear
ance and much glory shone upon
them.
The Potters followed, and after
them came the Carpenters, with near
" 200 members, very good showing.
electrical Workers No. al followed
with nearly 100 members, and after
them came the Bridge and Structural
Iron Workers with good membership
The Plasterers came next, and after
them the Industrial division, with al
most countless number of truck and
wagons, displaying products of the
Wheeling district.
The Picnic.
The picnic was different from any
thing ever held by the Assembly here,
ltofore. It was more Of the nature OF
a family basket picnic Fully five
thousand people were at the park, and
Of these there were many hundreds OF
families, with their luncheon in bas-
kets. All seemed to fully enjoy the
day, and the good order and good
cheer that prevailed was exceptional
in public acair,s and reflected great
credit upon the organized wage work
ers of the Wheeling district.
/ The Address.
The chief feature of the picnic was
the address by w. A. Jacobs, Of Mil
waukee, Wisconsin,. Mr.. Jacobs was
the Socialist candidate for governor
1t the last election, and polled re
markable vote. He is himself wage
worker, being member ofsthe United
Leather Workers on Horse Goods
(harness makers), and being familiar
with Labor problems, and his address
was most enlightening. He declared
against war, and urged the workers
to unite both politically and economic
ally. He was listened. to with mucf
attention, though the speaking was
most difficult owing to the proximit!
of so many noise making enterprises
n
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-09-10

Al Peoples Food Supply Petition
headquarters has been established at
240 Pacific Building, San Francisco,
to which all the individual petitions
are sent after they have been 6lled
with the name, addresses and occu-
|pations of the. signers.
1t is estimated that 10000 people
have already been reached and that
sc, 900 signatures have been secured.
The California raily press is taking an
active interest in the campaign, II
many Instances publishing the Social
list petition.
The campaign has been endorsed
by the California Socialist Party state
executive committee and the meetings
will continue. Mills will continue the
agitation in the SanFrancisco Bay dis
trict, while Wilson and his son Will
start over the state in an automobile
campaign
aThe people are receptive and en-
thus astfc,' declares Wilson. Zone
retitien secured is 10 feet long. 1t is
full Of signatures, This is the su
premea move. of the hour. This peti,
ton should be pushed from the nation
| al office of the Socialist Party and
every local in the nation should dppl1-
Icate the work that is being done IL
California
Other state organizations Of the
Socialist Party are already taking an
active interest in the work being done
in California and will immediately
lget in line for a national effort.
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Women On Picket
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would be so frightened that we woul6
run back to the tent colony; but VIZ
did not move. One husky soldier
grabbed me and dragged me from til
platform and had toss and tumbls
with him. Mrs. Dominske took hold
of a post and stuck to. it with all hel
might Mrs. Bartalotti had her face
slapped.
For a minute the shrill voices OF
women were penetrating the air, All
the excited women, talked at once,
and the soldiers used more brute
forces The men of the wives were
standing opposite and it is a wonder
to me that the men had presence of
mind enough not to interfere. We
would have had blood shed perhaps
if it were not for the good behavior
of our men. 1t was a tactless move
on the part. of the federals and it look
ed as though they were favoring the
mine owners.
The federals have allowed the mines
to be filled with scabs. Quietly, and
in small groups, they allow the scabs
I to come in. If scab gives a con-
Vincing story they allow him to come
in. Most of the scabs learn their
story before they come in.
| The federal soldiers stand for the
same thing. as the militia did; namely
% protect private property and to-
break the backbone of the strike. The
federal soldiers have done this in a
more gentlemanly way. which is per-
haps more deadly. The federals 1uain-
tain that they are impartial; that they
are net here to help the strikers or
the mine eWAers, but any one with
a grain of common gence will see
where the fedora lsoldierS stand, and
whose interests they represent,
A delegation sof women went 10
Trinidad frsm Ludlow, to have an in
teryiew with Colonel Lockett. The
colonel refused to see us, but we had
an interview with his spokesman, Ma
jor Rockwell, and another Major.
The gentlemen advised us not to go
picketing, and if we did not follow
his advice we would have to take The
consequence. The women answer cd
that they had to take q part in this
strike, that their hubands' fight was
their fight, and that side by side they
would struggle with the men.
The militia is being reorganized un-
der the direction of the Federals, and
Major Rockwell informed me that they
will be glad to be released.
They have performed their duty by
allowing all the scabs into the mines
and now they are ready to- go, to allow
the militia to do more dirty work.
The strikers stand pat. and say they
will never return to work until the.
strike is settled. They are ready to
remain out o fthe mines another year
if necessary.
While the other countries in Europe
are at each others throts, civil war is
pefatng in the state Of Colorado: We
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-09-10
Socialists must never lose sight, Of the

Socialists must never lose sight Of the
main issue.
The Socialists here are paving a
harQ figh ito make ends meet. We
haVe no money and not many workers,
and we appeal to the Socialists Of This
country to aid this weak district. The
Socialists are pack of undesirables
nere. The laws have been in favor OF
the mine owners, and the men who
tried to organize had the choice OF
going down the canyon or leave. The
reader Will understand that if the
Unionists had such a hard struggle
for life, how the Socialists fare in
such q community.
We need organizers. and workers,
and we need money. Send your mites
to A. Marians, Pine street. Trinidad,
Colorado.
The Socialists must elect a sheriff
this fall-SociaHst candidate Wilson,
who is a miner on strike.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-09-10

Wilson is being aided in this cam
|paign by his son, Gladstone, and by
Waltor Thomas Mills, the noted So
cialist orator who has only recently
returned to this country from Anstral-
ia. Numerous petitions are being cir
culated, to be made part of a MON
STBR PEOPLES PETITION" at the
head of which is carried the motion
put by Wilson to the Socialist Party
national executive committee on the
present crisis confronting the nation,
This motion as adopted reads as fol
lows:
'eThat thN national executive COM
mittee take the following action I'M
mediately and call all the locals OF
the party to hold mass meetings TO
protest and arbitrate price of food
stuffs and demand Congress to estab-
lish food departments.
Whereas, the spectators are arbi-
trarily and unnecessarily raising the
prices of the necessities of life, and
Whereas, the United States Gov
kernment should conserve and protect
the interests of the producers and
consumers as against these specula-
tors who are robbing the people, null
titudes of whom are already in dire
need;
Therefore. We hereby, petition the
president and congress of the United
States to establish Immediately supply
depots in the strategic industrial and
agricultural centers of the nation fof
the purpose Of maintaining just mar
ket for the producers and for the
purchase of food products and tor the
sale of these necessities direct to the
people"
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-09-10
PERSONALS.

Mrs. Ella Auber and daughter, Flor
ence, left Thursday for Atlantic City
and Baltimore. In the latter city she
will spend a week or two with rela-
tives.
Mrs. Harry Fleming, Of Fairmont,
was a Wheeling visitor Wednesday
and Thursday.
Mis- sRachel Smedly, of Fairmont,
has returned home, after visit with
friends here. q
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-09-10

Colorado in the summer of 1918. He
was at once made q deputy sheriff
On August l6, he and George Belcher
another assassins walked up to Geralf
Ldppiatt on the streets and killed him
Belk is under indictment for murder
but released ON bond. This alleged
meFderer was one of the two peace"
o1Rcers who served the warrants for
murder on the ace strikers.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-09-10

FHE Aa3AJORITY I'RINTERY can priE
ayth;ne from the size Of q poat&s
- ,f@...s : -.
abel th"y'vs rot 70 mark IL OF u.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-09-10

WE WILL NOW HAVE .@=-~
a Few Remarks
Re
BY WALTER B. HILTON

HE FINANCIAL SIDE is uppermost in modern
thought always. The struggle Of the mine workers
and operators Of Eastern Ohio has resolved itself
into question of whether not the operators are us
fed in their claim that they cannot afford to pay g
cents Apparently It has not entered into the calculations
of the business men to learn whether the mine workers
can live on AZ cents.
The operators say they willing to pay wage
equivalent to the cost Of producing the coal last year.
Even if this be true, every worker would be reduced
for the cost of his living has gone far above the cost Of
last year.
But this is business system, and.therefore we must
do things in business way. And business does not in
clude humanity.
o may the day speed to when the people will take
over the coal mines wipe out the profit and the silly
petition and produce coal for the Of the people There
will then be question of whether the industry can
ford pay its producers enough to live upon for they
will get the full social value of their product
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-09-10

IA IHEN THE WORKERS LEARN to march to the
wv City Building as they marched to the Park last
Monday, this will be decent city to live in.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-09-10
Most incomplete is the advice given by the cur

Most incomplete is the advice given by the current
Golfers. Seeing the spectacle Of rich Europeans
duced to poverty night by the war, the magazine
recognizes that under the uncertainties of Capitalism
be Of the future of his children, and advises
all to teach their boys to work. better STILL teach them
to till the soil.
But there are millions today with no work to do and
soil to till.
The latest scandal is somhing about August gon out
with September Morn.
War is doomed. These dirigibles that have such a
habit of leaking bombs making unsafe for the
bankers who back it.
When army marches down street: first the
generals then the coones then the majors the captains
the eutenants and last the enlisted They take the
ORDER too when they retreatng from the enemy
Hoch der Deutschen Verenigen Staten! Or at least
let us hope ..5
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL SAID
Laboring and -laborng women
Have one glory and one shame,
Everything that's done inhuman |
Injuries all of them the same.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-09-10

WheIing,.W. Va, Sept. B, 1914.
The following resolution was unanI-
mously adopted In the Miners Special
Convention held in Wheeling.
Whereas:' Certain false Impressions
have been given out in the newspapers
during the past few days, we the dele
gates representing the Miners of
Eastern Ohio, hereby declare and as
list The demand fer 47e per ton
straight Run of Mine basis is the de-
mand of the miners and not the Off
Gals.
End The officials are bound to carry
out the will Of the Miners, not the
Miners the will of the officials.
sra we repudiate the suggestion
that many Of the Miners are ready to
recede from the demands now being
made.
18th , We commend the officials Of
the organization for the faithful man.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-09-10

been indicted.
Walter Belk, a notorious Baldwin
Feltz thug who was under indictment
for murder in West Virginia, came to
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-09-10

nRIVATE DETECTIVE AGENCIES are springing
I up in Wheeling like toadstools. And they as
poisonous.
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checks will be distributed to the
members on strike.
If the Colorado strike is settled, as
it now appears it will be, money will
pour into the Eastern Ohio district in
quantities sufficient to relieve what
eaer distress there may be.
When it is considered what dire cir
cumstances the men have been in in
Eastern Ohio, and yet how brave they
have held out against reduction in
their wages, it will readily be seen
that they will be able to continue the
light until they win, now that they
will have sufficient financial support.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-09-10

, nsr 10 :. which they have carried gut the
Signed,
REV. A. M .MsEAeHEN,
G. H. SMITH, - -
H. E. SMITH,
Committee.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-09-10

Hoch der Deutschen Vereinigen Staten! Or at least
let us hope so. III
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California Starving War

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Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-09-10
I Union STORES closed Labor Day. inorganic
II u SIC lent The arnnrietnIS nf

I Union STORES closed Labor Day Unorganized
stores generally kept OPEN The proprieofsof the
latter gave as reason that they to close Thurs
day for the Fair This is not real reason not even
rood reason In factories where the mechanical force
organized and the Office force unorganzed the factory
shut down. but the bookkepers and senographers were
compelled to work. !
It shows but one thing that employers took advan-
age of employees when they through lack OF
organization This means that they do not respect their
employees but they respect the strength OF their organ
cations.
1t ought to be pleasant food for thought for clerks in
nonnion stores You not entitled to respect from
your employer until you show that you respect yourself
And the non-unon worker shows respect for himself
/ low ABOUT THE CHARTERS -Whatdo you know
/ / about it? What do you think about it? What do
you want about it? All the workers should be inter
ested Write your opinions to the Majority and your
under bushel
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-09-10

The latest scandal is somthng about August gon out
with September Morn.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-09-10

War is doomed. These dirigibles that have
habit of leaking bombs are making war unsafe
bankers who back it,
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1914-10-07
CURIOUS CARD TRICK,
IL Deals With Odd Numbers, and the
Explanation Is a Mystery.

There is a puzzle which may be per
formed with any odd number OF oh
jects. playing cards being usually err.
ployed. and which any one can do, bus
no one seems able to explain the reG'
son for it, Let us suppose the numbeE~
selected to be twenty-seven cards, al
though fifteen or twenty-one would dsr
Just as we'll
After having them shuff1ed hold then
in the left hand face upward and then
deal them face upward one at a time
In three piles so that the fourth cara
comes on the first and the fifth on the.
top of the second and so on until yoC
have three piles of nine cards each
Request any person who is watching
you to make silent note of any care
ne pleaSeS and when you have finished
dealing 10 tell you in which pile The
card lies. By picking up the three piles
again one at a time as before. the Eesr
ed card will reappear Ask in which
pile it came that time and place that
pile in the middle as before
Upon dealing the cards into thres
piles for the third time note carefully.
the card that comes in the middle o.
each pile. With twenty-seven there
will be nine in each pile and the fifsS
will be the middle card. Now. whec
the person who selected the card names
the pile in which his card comes you
will know u was the middle card CB
that pile With this knowledge in yeu7
possession you can finish the trick h.
any manner you please.
This Is only statement of results
but what is the explanation or reason
for it: What is the rule that makes l.
always come out right. regardless o.
the number of objects used. so that 81
is odd?-NeW York sun
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1914-10-07
PEPPERY COMPOSERS.
Masters OF Music Who Had Nice Tea~-
pers of Their Own.

Masters Of Music Who Had Nice Tezs,-
pers of Their Own.
Even In the presence Of bis royal
pupils Handel would sometimes fly inta>
most violent passions.
You forget yourself, Mr.. Handel" q
court attendant said reprovingly on.
one such occasion You should show
more respect to her royal highnessF'
Royal highnessr' snorted the must
clan contemptuously. Bah! De re-
spect is due to me! There are man.
brtncesses. but only one Handely'
On another occasion, when George Z
sent a message summOning him to a1c
Interview. be returned this answer:
Dell his bajesty be bust waid. BIZ
tibe is bore imbordant dan his"
Viotti, the famous French musician
Of the eighteenth century. had az
equal contempt for royalty and an ex-
aggerated opinion Of himself, as thss
following story shows: One day hR
was summoned to Versailles to PLAY
before Marie Antoinette and the coura
The performance had begun; the oper-
ing bars Of his favorite solo command
ed breathless attention, when a crJE
was heard:
place for Mgr the COmte fArtoisT
At the sound Viotti Immediately
ceased playing. cast an indignanEz
glance at his audience. placed his VIC
lin under his arm and walked out 80
the place
When Marie AntOinette once inquir~
ed of Gluck how his new opera was
progressing be answered. Madame, f.,
Is nearly finished. and | assure you IL
will be superb" a conceit which was
rivaled by that of Meyerbeer. who
when a friend declared that IL any
thing better could be composed than
one Of his rival operas be would dance
on his head. answered, "If that is So
I should advise you to start practicing
at once. for ! have just commences
the fourth act of The Huguenotsp
Even Haydn. usually the most mce%
est Of men. showed at times that ke
had as good an opinion of his OWE
merits as any of his admirers On,
one occasion. when a friend said to-
him of his "Salomon" symphonies
"Sir, am strongly OF opinion that yog.
will never surpass these wonderful
symphonies" be answered placidly,
mo; never mean to attempt the ins-
pOssibler'
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1914-10-07

ry still further by reason of the
killing or exhaustion of their
streets.
The artillery service in each
of the contending armies has
lost thousands of trained horses
during the battles and the march
es, and the call is for other thou
sands to take their places.
A German officer in a recent
interview is quoted as stating
that the cavalry forces of the
Kaiser have lost two-thirds OF
the horses with which they OPEN
ed the campaign, many killed in
action, many captured by the
enemy, still abandoned on the
marches through inability to go
farther by reason of the constant
hard riding of the Uhlans, the
dragons and the cuirassiers,
The British Government is
buying thousands of horses in
Canada and in the United States
to be shipped to Canada and from
thence to Europe, and service
able cavalry or draft horses in
this country are now bringing
much higher prices than a year
ago.
Six months of war in Europe
will draw from the United States
every serviceable horse that can
be spared from this country if
high prices will induce their own
ers to sell.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1914-10-07
Where the Eaulf lsN,.

A newspaper man tells of frienk
he edited. with more ar less success.
= paper in a small town That he was
somewhat discouraged by the lack OF
interest shown in his journal was eV.s~
denced by this notice which one after
noon appeared on the editorial page:
Burglars entered our house lasT
dight. To the everlasting shame of tbs
community for whose welfare we hayGs
!abOred be it said. they got nothing -
Harper's Magazine
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1914-10-07
Rueer Pets.

The stir caused in London re-
Gently by the pet pig escorting
an American lady recalls other
instances where pigs have played
the role of faithful companions
In Persia, although the law for
bids, pigs are cherished. not at
butchers meat, but as compan
ions. Some years ago tn e Brit
ish consul there had a pet pig
which attended him when shoot.
ing. pointed" the birds, and
then retrieved them. The care
less servants could not be trust
ed to keep it indoors, and it
tracked its master by scent.
Sir Walter Scott had a fondness
for pigs, and Lockhart tells
story much like the above.
Lord Gardenstone, an eminent
Scott judge, had a great regard
for pigs. One slept in his bed
at night until it became IN
wieldly, then it slept upon his
clothes, arranged on the floor for
it's convenience.
Sir William Jones had a fancy
for tortoises. 1t is recorded by
a friend of the great man that
after dinner he would suddenly
shout, in a loud voice, "Othello!"
and a very large turtle respond
ed, crawling from the next room.
1t usually made its way to Sir
Williams chair and remained, he
feeding it with food especially
to its liking.
One of the strangest instances
where a strange freak pet was
allowed unusual freedom hap
pened at Liverpool some years
ago, when a gentleman walked !
up from the docks with a lion in
AS he pointed out
to the magistrate, it was evident.
Iy an amiable creature, for it did
not resent the arrest of its mas.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1914-10-07
We Have a President.

We like to feel that Woodrow
Wilson expresses in his own per-
sonality the good genius of this
country The Presidents service
to the nation within the past few
months has been sufficient to
make an entire four-year term
notable.
War with Mexico has been
averted through patient state
craft that persisted despite crit.
cism, abuse and lack of faith.
A strike of trainmen on ninety
eight Western railroads has been
prevented by the agreement of
of the contending parties to ar
bitrate. This strike would have
been a catastrophe at any time;
in view of other complications, it
would have been immeasurably
worse at this time. Credit must
be given to the men and the
managers for ageeing to get to-
gether, but this was not brought
about until the President had en-
tered the negotiations.
The placing of American bust
ness conditions upon basis
where the European disorders
can affect them little if at all was
at the instance of and with the
cooperation of the administra-
ton, which is also to be credited
with fathering a currency law
that will prove most efficient in
the present situation.
In the last three or four months
it would have been distressingly
easy for a Presidential blunderer
to embroil or embarrass the
United States. We have come
through with credit and clean of
unworthy compromises or en-
tangling alliances.
Thank God we have a Presi-
dent.-Minneapolis News, Qnd.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1914-10-07
BeNlldsred Him.

u say. Weegie. I'm in an awfus
mess. Miss Smart means to sue me-
FOR 'bweath of pwomise' or somethipS
hOwwid like that"
"Weally p
"Yaas said | was awfully s0wwyz7
not to ask her to mawwy me. out 6ae.
would cut me off if | did. and ell she
said vas, You needn't imagine I'm tbs
kind of a girl that accepts an apology
for i man New York Tribune.