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Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-07-23
PoI|ack Monument
Design viii Be .
Decided Sunday

Sunday the Nesign for the Pollack
monument will be decided by the
committee. The meeting will be held
at the residence of the secretary, H.
P.. Corcoran, lips Eoff street, and will
be called at 10 o'clock in the morn
ing.
This will mark the final step preced-
ing the erection of the. monument
The movement, launched about six
years ago, has resulted in securing a
sum of nearly $4,000, which will be
expended in the monument, which
will be. PLACED upon the no th~~ west
corner of the City Hall Square.
Only One of Kind.
1t will be the only monument of its
kind in existence in the coutry. 1t is
the only one built entirely by the con-
tributios of union members, and erect
ed to commemorate man simply for
his friendship to Labor. Augustus
Pollack, whose long business life was
crowded with evidences of his friend
ship for the workers, will be the only
man whose memory will be SO honor
ed. ,
The nearest approach to a similar
move was in the erection of the Arm
strong monument at Steubenville, but
the cases are not in the least parallel,
for Armstrong was worker who later
became an employer, and the monu-
ment funds were collected from all
sources. =. ~
The Rollack memorial will be built
entirely by/Y8- contributions of mem
bers of labor unions:
Five designs have been submitted
10 the committee, and the lucky Sc
lection will come from these. r
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-07-23

declared MARITIME, lis seems toLs1eep
the sleep of the righteous and the
just"
on Education and Labor, land Hhe1, :"
Said Lee Calvin, under oath, to the
Senate Committees:
"They''-the mine guards in his
command "were Bowery toughs ship
ped from New York; gutter snipes."
Calvin was ordered by his superiors
to order his gunner to "shoot if any
one madea move"
81 told them" he sWore, 81 wouldn't
carry out orders like that for no man;
there was no man not even the Gear of
Rusisaf, could give an order to shoot
a man like that. explained to Mr..
Lentz"- his superior-"if a lot of men
were standing outside your hose and
someone would throx rock through
window, would you SAoot into the
whole crowd or at the man who threw
the~ rock?"
CalVin's men were on the famous
'fBullEAoose" special train which fired
into a village occupied by minersa nd
their families, killing some in their
beds Calvin meant what he told
Lentz~ He remained in the employ Of
! the Baldwin Felts people exactly one
day. When he quit Lentz sent for him.
Thus testified Calvin concerning that
interview:
"And I went up to the .horel> and
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-07-23
News Snapshots
OF the Week

A campaign to organize the unor-
ganized, particularly the unskilled
workers OF West Virginia will soon
be launched.
This is In compliance with the in
structions of the West Virginia State
Federation of Labor convention, held
in Fairmont last May. The convention
instructed the secretary to issue a
circular letter to all labor unions in
the state asking for data in this mat
ter. It is believed that the collection
of this information will materially aid
in the effort to organize the morgan
lied workers, and that this first step
in the campaign will be a most i'm
portant one.
The Circular.
Following is the circular letter sent
out to the unions:
"Dears Sirs and Brothers: W. =:
81 have been directed by the ,conven-
tion of the State Federation recently
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-07-23

~ T is February 12, 1914, at half-past
nine in the morning. A solemn
~ committee of the House of Rep
resentatives is investigating the in
dustrial war raging between the mine
owners of Colorado and the men
whose labor makes the miners owners
rich. Albert C. Felts, of the Baldwin
Felts Detective Agency, which con-
ducts-I use it's own Words-"a gener-
al detective agency, representing to do
civil and criminal work, or legitimate
investigations for firms, corporations,
Industrial enterprises or individuals,
except that we do not take any di-
yorce cases." has been produced and
sworn. The, gang if which he is a
leader is well known to the workers
of the United tSates, either through
actual physical contact or through the
columns of the news, where its noble
purpose. the preservation of law and
order, is faithfully executed every
time blood flows and the strikers
homes are smashed. 1t is interesting
butn OF significant to learn that the
first shot in the Colorado war was
fired by Gerald Lppiatt, a striker,
into George Beleher, 9 aunman be-
longing to Mr.. Felts.
Toward the middle of the morning
of this anniversary of Lincoln's birth
the following questions and answers
were recorded. The questioner as
Representative Foster, chairman OF
the investigating committee, and the
witnes is Felts:
O. sI.et me ask you this, Mr.. Felts,
You were called on as you stated, by
the authorities to help them enforce
the law in the state of Colorado?"
A. 1--WE have been, yes, sir"
o. "Were you ever called on to en-
force law in any other instance ex'
cept In the recent striker"
A. II have; many times"
@. would you mind telling the
committee where you have ben called
upon to enforce q law where the local
authorities could not do it
a. ST could not say that ] could
give you an instance of that kind;
ID NOT recoIlect any specific instance
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-07-23

and number of working hoursa2A How
much time do they lose and~for what
cause? r.. H..
Questions like these will easily come
to your mind, and a full and detailed
letter to this office on this important
matter v;'' - much toward bringing
about the end SO necessary to the adj
vancemert Of not ony the unskilled
workers themselves, but to every
skilled and organized worker in the
state.
I'VE would also like to know if the
organized workers in your trade or dis
trict5 are making any efforts toward
unionzing the itnorearizcd-
".Hopi-'s for prompt answer, TIM
d Yours, frateIrs.iy,
JAMES l.. PAULEY,
III : Secretary Treasurer,
West Virginia State Federation Of
Labor"
81 fSealA''
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-07-23
FANNIE SELLNS> :,
! GOES TO ST. LOUIS.
The ReIieNist to Date:

Fannie 'Sellins, released last Friday
from the Fairmont jail where she had
served three months of six months
sentenceinfficted by Judge Dayton for
alleged violation of his injunction, left
Thursday Of this week for St Louis.
Mo-, her home. Upon heREelease she.
went Immediately to Rochester, Pa
upon the Invitation of the American
ed the conventionfor its splendid &C
tion in putting UP the aaea-eassh bond
for her release. 80
Her address before the convention
was a powerful one and deeply i'm
pressed the delegates
She returned to Steubenville last
weeks and secured what was still left
of the childrens' clothing contributed
to the strikers by tAea Socialist party,
and turned this overNo William Ray,
vice president of Sub District No. S,
Of District No. 6 for distribution among
the children of the destitute striking
miners of Eastern Ohio.
She visited Wheeling on Wednesday,
and to a Majority man expressed her
appreciation of all that Wheeling and
West Virginia workers had tried to do
in her behalf. (,
81 want to thank the workers,
through the Majority She Said, "for
all they have done in behalf of myself
and the other prisoners confn4d in
iails in West Virginia through the
cruelty of Judge Dayton. Being in Jail
is a frightful experience and my heart
goes out to any worker sent there by
the tools&of capitalism. ~
"The Wheeling workers have surely
acted splendidly in this matter. and
! CONTINUED ON Page 81
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-07-23
Confessions Of THE Gunmer6f Industry"

the words Of an eminent Justice, to
expose the lives of citizens to the
murderous assaults of hireling 'assas-
sins"
During the last two years the work
ingmen and women Of this country
have come into frequent bitter clashes
with those armed mercenaries. These
clashes have always taken place at
times of strikes. 1t is only too true
that at these seasons, in the absence
of armed gunner paid out of spTivate
pockets, the legally constituted police
officers of municipality and state have
often shown themselves to be of at
least brutality. But police brutality
is. never countenanced- by even: the
most reactionary press to sue ha de-
gree as it condones the most fragrant
outrages upon the lives and property
of men and women workers when they
happen to be perpetrated by gunner
in the employ of manufacturers or
mine owners. The reason for this is
not far to seek; the police are in
effect public utility; they draw
their pay from the public purse, and
they are responsible to the public
often, it lis true, through corrup Off
Gals, but they are nevertheless ulti-
mately responsible to the public for
their jobs, and they know it and the
public knows it. If the police are bru-
tai, the voters of the state possess the
Ipower-which they may or may not
utilize-to make the state just and
right.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-07-23
Trying Non-Unon Stogiies
On The Wheeling Market

Of late considerable effort has been
made by some outside manufacturers
to load non-union stogies on the Wheel
ing market. early dozen brands, all
of them limitations of Wheeling pro-
ducts whose reputatios have come well
deserved after years Of effort, are be-
ing offered merchants of the city, at
less than the price for which honest,
union workmanship can be sold.
Some merchants, for the few cents
difference, have been willing to put
in this foreign non-uaiop brands which
duct, ad others put them in without
knowledge of their true relation, but
committee from Garfield Local No.
/, Charles Higgins and Selbert G..
Wheeler, upon visiting these mer-
chantsA have had much success, for
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-07-23

@. "But so far as being called on to
perform duties that the state could not
PERFORM"
A. ~ know of none." =.
Mark this. Here we have one of the
responsible heads of one of the biggest
bands of gunner and detectives in
the United States, confessing on oath
before federal authority that there is
no necessity for the existence of his
outfit; that his outfit merely duplicates
the duties and labor of state police of
ficers; that every job that his men are
called upon to perform could be per-
formed blythe legally constituted pub
lie servants of the body polite. IL
AT the bottom of the gunman evil
the system of government by g1nmen,
as John Kenneth Turner calls tits
this simple fact: s@
A public agency is in the hands Of
private capitalists.
This simple fact marks an important
difference between the United States
and all other civilized countries which
have established so-called, claw and
order" on sections of this globe. The
United States, as Robert Hunter has
pointed out, is the only modern state
where it is still possible for rich and
powerful individuals or for corporations
to employ their own bands of amred
men The strange fact appears
that the newest and supposedly the
least feudal country is today the only
country that allows the oldest anarch-
lists to keep in their hands the power
to arm their own mercenaries. and, in
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-07-23
STATIONARY FIREMEN

Brother Harry Pearson is confined
to his home in Elm Grove with a torn
ligament in one of his legs, received
while at work at the Elm Grove power
house. Brother Henry Stietz is filling
his place.
There will be a special meeting of
No. 81 onsMonday evening at Room 2O7
Mutual Bank building, to hear contract
committees report. 1t is important
and every member is requested to be
present.
Mrs. F. A. Darr, wife of Secretary
Darr, is visiting relatives at Cameron
The contract committee is working
on several new plants and expect to
have a surprise for the members in
the near future:
One hundred and fifty members and
license law by Ja4uary 1st, 1915, is
the prediction of the officers OF No. Il
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-07-23
By William Leavitt Stoddarc
- EReMAREARsONs MAGAZINE)

WHEN YOU HEAR OF q STRIKE USUALLY You HEAR OF y!o
MORE MONEY; NEcEssAREs Of COST MORE EVERY DAY
they ARE eETT1Ne; LuxuREs MORE EVERY DAY
The MANI sTRKEs ReT NOW THERE
CONFLICT IN PARTS OF THE COUNTRY NJ YOU BELEvE
THE NEWSPAPERS, STRIKERS ALWAYS COMMIT THE VIo
LENcE. KNOW TRUTH THE HIRED FIGHTING MEM
THE VIOLENCE. THIS SERVES BOTH
EMPLOYER GuNMAN THE PUBLIC, OPPOSED TO VOL EMcE
AND THINKING VIOLENCE, SIDES WITH
The EMPLOYER THE GUNNNAN, THINGS STIRRED
LONGER ALL THIS lis EXPLAINED BY RO
BERT I'M THE MARCH PEARsoNs SOME PEOPLE DOUBT
ED HIS STATEMENTS. CONFESSIONS GUNMEN THEM
SELVES TRUTH. LOOK OVER THEM.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-07-23
Assembly Demands
Bond Commission

to enable the installation OF the plant.
The demand for Commission Tor
the handling of the money is the re-
suit of a fear that many will vote
against a bond issue if they believe
nat the money will be handled by
the present administration.
corcoran Reports.
III. P. Corcoran reported that he had
been called to Washington by Attor-
news Belcher and Montgomery IN De-
half of the miners in the case before
the judiciary committee, the attempt
to impeach Judge Dayton.
fisher Reports.
chairman Al. ". Fisher Of the Legis-
.latiye committee, made report @
the work Of his department. Wnlcn
showed commemorate activity and
was well received.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-07-23

demanding that a commission be
ed'ed TO have charge of the expen-
Sslare of. the sum to be realized from
cue ~ pond issue for\the filtration plant,
we ONO Valley Trades and Labor AS
~ u ny went on record Sunday.
~ the absence of President Gilligan
[ "a Wee President Weekley, Charles
s ares. was called to the chair and
IL 1ed ably during the session. Lit
tr s else OF public Importance was
b siuS1 at the meeting, much time
.Sl 1rRs.. given Ito a discussion of the
psasu subject. The delegates eS
Of ss their pleasure at the results
Ass .ue election, which sustained the
I S m;saa decision in favor of the
tha ait y system, but all understood ths
be- n ualtie for pure water would not
"on until there was a. bond issu 2
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-07-23

the dealers hafe generally promised
to discontinue handling them, -, =
Among the 'non7unio brands which
ATTEMPTS have been made to market
here Are productions of a MILLER Com
1any'' formerly located here, but
which removed to BeallsVille, Ohio, in
order to get cheaper work. Others
come from other ohfa1/t towns, but
chiefly from Pittsburgh.
Among the brands are 'fMursh"N
Harsh" March," Marsh" MILLER"
@Big x" 'fPitt," DRY Slitz," 'fStegie-
roma"
Friends of Labor are advised to
avoid these names, but the safe way
is to demand the union label of the
National Stogie Makers League" in
blue on the box ~
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-07-23
Public Employment
Offices Considered

Letters have been received by
several Wheeling people from the
United States Commission on Indus
trial Relations asking that all parties
having criticisms OF suggestions to Of
fer on the subject Of employment Of
fees to submit them in writing to
the Commission.
The Commission is drawing up ten
tatiye proposals for considering the
question Of, public and private employ
ment Offices, and pamphlet contain
ing these is being submitted to all
persons interested in the subject, in
order to- secure their criticisms and
suggestions for improvement and to
furnish in part a topical outline for
Witnesses called to appear before the
commission in public hearings.
, The proposals are the result of an
agitation for public employment Off
ces, to be paid by the government. to
lake s&e place of the private offices
now $istihg throughout the country,
many pf them simply strike breaking
asenciess kothers simply skinning
Inc deluded worker who is out of job.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-07-23
PARK is CLEAN.

WHEELING PARK is CLEAN.
drunkenness and vulgarism are I'M
Known here since the Griffit' Crane
management have taken the reins.
. Wheeling can be proud of it's little
coney Isle,
The gigantic swimming pool seems
10 be the greatest attraction. This is
augto the fact that the running water
IS filtered and thes bathing suits are
terllized before anyone can use them.
Even the dancing is Gle an. Where
van "a. . man find better place for his
iaMlly outing? Places like this tend
'ouplit the morals of cities,
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-07-23
Here are 4he confessions of
other gunner which proves that
they are instructed when hired
to stir things up if they find
conditions quiet, then newspa-
pers will blame the strikers.

Lee Calvin was employed by the
Baldwin elts agency to take charge Of
mine guards IN the>West Virginia coal
mine, strike. It was the testimony Of
Calvin among others that caused Sena-
tor MARITIME of New Jersey to introduce
a bill now pending before the senate
providing that every individual, cor
poration or body of men employing
armed guards for private purposes
should be liable to fine of at least
So, 900 and Imprisonment for one year.
Incidentally it should be stated that
that bill wasFeferred to the Committee
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-07-23

but / do recall many instances where
{ have been sent warrants and papers
by the state authorities, for service
:
Here you have the head of one !:
of the biggest bands of gunner !:
F.: and detectives confessing on !:
Z: oath before. federal authority .
!: that there is no necessity for :
:: the existence of his outfit.
u. .
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-07-23

a cabinet OFFICER rseommend-
ed that Interstate commerce"
in private PROFESSIONAL killers be
stopped, but the commerce goes
on and gests worse and will con-
tinue to get worse
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-07-23

Continued on Page ~
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only LABOR PAPER

+ba Ohio. valleyA-The
IL sbop Of the world
W. INC to. l25, 900 Indus
trial POPULATION.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1914-11-27
TWICE A WEEK, s1.5e A YEAR

So he works and waits, till one fine
day
There's better job, with bigger pay,
And the men who shirked whenever
tley could
Are bossed by the men who whose
work made good
For the man who wins is the man who
works,
Who neither labor nor trouble shirks,
WAC uses his hands, his head: his eyes
The man who wins is the man who
tries.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1914-11-27
Cotton Ginned.

According to tie report of Mr.. ]. T.
Hunter, the government agent, there
we<e ginned in Newberry county UP
to November IA, 1914, of the present
crop. 25,O59 bales as against 1854
bales for the same time last year.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1914-11-27
Today.

IOQdys
yesterday cloud of sorrow
Fell across my way
It may rain-but, say,
1t may rain--Dut, asy,
Amt it fine. to live today?"
But here's tie whole Bhing. Take is
all in:
Sure this world is full of trouble:
j amt said it amt
Lord, I've had enough and double
Reason for complaint
Rain an storm {, ave come to fret me
Skies were often gray;
Thorns and bramb!es have beset me
On the road-but, say
Amt 1t fine today.
What's the use of always weepin',
Maxim trouble last?
What's tae use Of always keepin'
T2inkin' of the past?
Each must have his trlbulatlon-
Water with his wine.
Life-it amt no celebration.
Trouble-I've had mine;
But today, amt it fine.
It's today that I'm alvin,
Not month ago.
Hay;n', losin', takin, givln',
AS time wills it so.
Yesterday cloud of sorrow
Fell across my way
1t may rain again tomorrow;
1t may ratn-but say,
Amt it fine to live today!
The Idler.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1914-11-27
The Cases in Detail.

Aiken, D. C. (white), convicted
the January, 1913, term of court for
Anderson county, of violation of the
dispensary law and sentenced to pay
q fine of $4,000 or to serve three
months upon tie public works. Paroi-
ed during good behavior, and upon the
1urtser condition that should ne ever
gain be convicted of violating tne
dispensary law, lie shall be required
TO serve the sentence above mention
ed. Parole dated November 25, 1914.
FAIRFIELD, j. P. (white), convicted at
tie January, 1914, term o; court for
Clarendon county, OF murder, with
recommendation to mercy and sentenc-
ed TO life Imprisonment.
Paroled during good beha6lor, No
Yember %, 1914
Bensen, Ernest T., (colored), conv1c-
ed at the September, 1912, term of
court for Greenville county, of as
sault and battery with intent to Kill,
and sentenced to seven years imprls-
onment upon tie public works.
Paroled during good behacior, No.
vember %, 1914.
Bensing, Fred. (white), convicted at
the June, 1914, term OF court for Pic
kens county, of housebreaklng and
larceny, and sentenced to two years
upon public works.
Paroled during good behavior, No
vember p, 1914.
Bigby Bob, (colore6, convicted at
the May, 1913, term Of court or An
derson county, of manslaughter, and
sentenced to ten years Imprisonment
upon the public works.
Paroled during good behavior No
vember 25, 1914
Boggs, Henry F., (white), convicted
at the March, 1911, term of court for
Pickens county, of manslaughter, and
sentenced to five years Imprisonment
upon public works.
Paroled during good behavior, No
vember 25, 1914
Bowles, Hugh, (white), convicted at
the June, 1913, term of court or Ches-
terfeld county, of manslaughter, and
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1914-11-27
Optimist.

And then l read somewhere the
other day ali excerpt from John Tenn
pie Graves. Read it. Yes, you fell
low, who thinks and talks about the
country being gone. to the bad and ey-
cry one gone dead broke Read it
tsnd axe courage Be man. AS Jack
London would say when he went out
with the boys and drank with them
until re was drunk, not because he
wanted or liked the beastly liquor, but
he did it to snow them taat he could
be man among men. Now, you pess-
imist, read it and be man among men
and think about and talk about what
a glorious country and glorious South
land this is in which is your inher-
itance and in whida you live and be
thankful that it is true. The skies
are clearing at midnight to make en-
trance for a new and radiant morn
ing. This a time for every one to be
thankful. Here is what John Temple
Graves says:
~After a many rain-swept and
stormy evening, the skies nave clear
ed at midnight to make entrance for a
new and radiant morning.
at is so with the South. Out of the
most serious financial shadow that
it has known for tlalf century there
is surely coming and now at hand, the
DAY of better methods, wiser econo-
mics and more substantial prosperi-
ty than tits section of our country
ihas ever known"
Then here is another sentiment you
want to get hold of and burn it deep
into your soul. Think about what a
glorious today is Don't be always
talking about the storm that swept
over you yesterday, of the clouds and
the storm that you are looking for
tomorrow. Yesterday is gone forever.
Tomorrow may never come. 1t is to-
day whid, you want to be glad. Amt
i, fine to-day" That's the sentiment
you want to take hold of your life
and you will be a thousandfold hap
pier. "Ain't it fine to live today"
That's w1at you want to be thinking.
Yes, I've had my sorrows and SO have
you, but, listen, let's play the glad
game. Listen again.