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Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-03-11
STATE
COMPENSATION

Astoria, Greg, March fin an edi-
torial on the subject of state compen-
sation, the Morning Astorian says:
Private interests should never be
permitted to come between the EN-.
ployer and the injured employee, con
Quoting a business that depends on
accident and injury Of human beings
for it's profit. Such an enterprise is
no more Legitimate than it would bs
considered legitimate business foI
a private corporation to engage in
policing our cities and making prose
cutions for law violations. The ad
ministration of a compensation Law
by which the injuries of employees o.
our state are cared for is as much d
function Of government as is the main
tenance of public schools, the polio
ing Of our cities and the administra
ton of Justice"
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-03-11
URGE CHILD
LABOR BILL.

Newark, n. j., March AT a meet.
ing Of social workers in this city, Mrs.
VIM. s. Corwin urged those present
to give personal concern to the pass
age by the national Congress of the
PalmettOwen bill INTENDED to pre-
vent interstate traffic in tie products
Of child labor. The speaker said:
THE present crisis in Europe in
clines US to minimize our own prob.
lens, but the war itself is preparing
for US new problems in view Of which
the PalmerIOwen bill is of especial i'm.
portance. With the close of The war
Europe will look to America as the
hope and haven Of the poor. The
flood Of immigration, now temporarily
checked, will be redoubled and We
must be ready for the people VINO are
coming to US. Unless the Palmer
Owen bill is passed we shall not be
ready. They will come poor in money,
broken in spirit, and ready to let thei
children work for a pittsnce md
the conditions they find, They Will
lower our standards of education and
living if we allow them to, and after
they come the obstacles in the way
Of progressive legislation win be
greater than ever"
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-03-11
Will Be
tn nThNHE

San Juan, Porto Rico, March A.
The remedy will be to, strike, and
again strike +" declares Justicia, off,
cial newspaper OF the union fedora
ton in this city, while discussing la
Dor conditions in Porto Rico.
The paper continues:
THE houses Of the majority of rn-
raj workers are merely, framework
OF poles, covered with the bark ~ef
palm trees and with dried leaves, and
thatched with palm leaves or a tough
grass which is found all Sver the is
land. These houses are sometimes
built on the ground, but more often
they have board floor made of palm
This floor is raised from the ground
so as to permit the rain water to
flow under the house, and often the
louse is built on slight incline. TIE
house Invariably is one story in
height, and usually consists of one
room, 20 feet square. This room,
especially IT,. it is large, is sometimes
divided by a partition into two freely
communicating rooms. Even where
there is a partition, there is, as a
rule, no division OF the sexes, since
such cases all the family live, and
ften, work in one of these rooms
.uring the day and sleep in the other
1t night. The Influence of these con
ditions upon the sexual impulses OF
adolescent children is not favorable"
After reviewing the deplorable con-
1itions under. which island workers
exist, the article closes as follows.
IF, however, the island be utilized
merely or promarily as means OF
providing opportunities for invest
ment and commercial explorations
by Americans, Spaniards, Porto Ric-
ans and other citizens; If the policy
Of educating the people be held up on
account Of its expense and alleged
uselessness; If the standard Of living
Of the people be not raised, the con-
dition OF Porto Rican laboring class,
after one hundred or two hundred
years will be no better than it was
in the year 1898, when the sovereign.
ty Of Spain gave way to the dominion
Of the United States OF America.
Then, the remedy will be to strike
and again strike!"
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-03-11

/ finally based upon the ability of the
high-class man"
Senator MARITIME Of New Jersey join
ed with his colleague in opposing the
HTaylor system" He said: I fell
thaot the Taylor system. so-called.
you'd tend to make mere machine
Of a man. Do not let It, I say. ever be
said that the Senate Of the United
States or the Congress Of the United
States has adopted : system whereby
an employer or a foreman or a boss
may stand over q workman holding a
stop watch to see the amount Of time
that shall be expended in order that
each one Of these workmen may make
standard for wages and higher en-
cheney"
Senator Root Of New York led the
fight for the stop watch. He said he
sympathized from the bottom Of his
heart" with the organized workers
who are striving to better conditions,
Dut-he raised strong objections to
labor unions in what he termed their
practice Of creating a dead level be.
fore all the young men Of America
who are work with their hands, and
forbid them to rise above It,"
The New York Senator announced
MS opposition to the tendency of Ia
DOR unions TO prohibit any man from
rising in his effort and his efficiency
above the standard of the lowest; the
effort to level down to the lowest
grade"
The speech had familiar sound to
trade unionists and other citizens who
understood even the first principles of
organized labor. 1t also showed the
necessity for continued agitation ar
education on the part Of unionists 'o
create such an understanding Of their
movement in this country that legis
lator will no longer dare express such
incorrect statements.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-03-11
Dead Level"
Cry. is Raised

Washington, March by q vote Of
q to SO the United States Senate,
last Tuesday, refused to concur with
the House that no money IN the army
appropriation bill should be used for
any ''stop.watch" or so-called Taylor
system" in government plants. The
time-worn dead level charge against
trade unionists was used most effect
lively BY friends Of the Taylor sys-
tenn" Senator Hughes lead the fight
against these systems and urged that
the position Of the House be sustain
ed. The New Jersey Senator said:
1.-THE theory that the man who does
the most work gets the most money
under the piece work system osunds
beautiful, but my experience has been
that It does not work out well. Tho
net result Of it is that. as under the
Taylor aystem,' the days work 4
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-03-11
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Free Speech
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THEN THEY WERE BLIND

WHEN THEY WERE BLIND
THEY NOW CAN SEE
Editor Wheeling Majority:
Dear Sir:-The above is the truth OF
the majority Of the sheet and tin work
ers Of America. And it has taken the
Trust about fifteen years to convince
their employees that they were blind.
And l feel sorry to say that not all of
them yet have their eyes open. But
they are beginning to wake up, and
they are like the little boy or little
girl when they wake up in the morn
ing peeping from under the covers
with their eyes about half open. OF
make sure that it is coming day light.
They are towards. They are afraid
of their shadow They want some one
else to go and prepare the way for
them and fight their battle. feel
glad to say that out of about 240 men
at the hot mills at La Belle, they have
organized all ready 14O members, and
they tell me that those who are hold
ing out are some of the rollers and
heaters. Why this? l don't under
stand it. For they tell me that the
reduction is~greater on the roller
and heater than on. the rest of the
crew. l am sure it is greater on the
roller in one way, for he makes more
money than the others. Consequent
ly he loses more. 1t is rumored here
this week that New Castle, Pa. Is out
or are organizing. Indiana Harbour
is in line. Canton and Massilon also
in line. Elwood, Indiana organizing.
Sharon, Pa, and Youngstown talking
it over. The Laughlin tin mills are
thinking hard. But waiting to see
what others will do first. Yorkyille
also is talking the matter over, so they
say. Glad to hear my old friends, that
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-03-11

show their gratitude by taking out 3
years subscription, and let us get our
heads together and make 1t our daily
paper, for we need one badly to let
us know the truth Of what Is going
on around US.
Last Sunday went over to Martins
Ferry to visit an old friend Of mine
who is laid up with stomach trouble
John Morgan, whom know OF be a
,ood union man in his younger days
when he was able. to work at his
rade as shearman. heater and pud-
dler. But now he has reached three
score and ten of his allotted time and
IS going down hill. John Morgan is
also a Socialist, and so his daughter
and son-in-law, and all their families
Mr.. and Mrs. D. W. Thomas. They
old me that all of them read the Ma.
iority advertisements and all they
said was they wished it would come
1aily Mr.. Morgan told me that the
BEST place and among the best people
he ever worked in his life was at
Follansbee, where he was day watch
nan for some years. Mr.. Morgan was
70 years old the first day Of March,
1915. l enjoyed my visit to Mr.. Nor
gan's by the entertainment received
from all of the family Miss Thomas
entertaining on the piano and her lit
'e sisters singing both Welsh and Eng
'ish, yet all were born In Martins
Ferry.
UNION MAN.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-03-11

you are waking up. personally know
many of-the men &working tn those
mills in our. vicinity. and l know that
they are number one union men. But
through circumstances have been OBJ
liged to geep still, and Enow that
they are willing and ready to organ
ize, onl yto have some one to make 6
start. Well let me say RICH; here: II
you older hands don't get some one tt
lead you pretty soon, the younger ele
ment is going to organize and you will
be left out in the cold. So have
courage, my friends, and come to the
front like men, for now is the day Of
your salvation. 4+ ~.
And when we get together again
let us be brothers in the true sense Of
the word. Trust each other. Speak
at all times good of each other. Iron
sharping iron So does man the face
of his friend" says the Bible. Sc. If
we want to be good, and to be good If
the right way to get along in this ole
world, we should do as the Bible tells
US.
words about our good and faithful
Wheeling Majority and It's staf. J
Here l should like to say few
am under the impression that we as
working men are not doing what's
right with the Wheeling Majority. Its
publisher and editor and its stan as
well, are always willing and ready te
go anywhere and at any time to DC
what they can to elevate the working
man. Its editor, and Lea La Flam, its
manager, are always on the go work
ing to elevate. our condition. The
Wheeling Majority columns week at
ter week the year round are devoted
to our cause. And why should we not
do unto the Majority as the Majority
does unto US, by subscribing towards
It, It is only one dollaf per year If
advance. Less than two cents per
week. 1t is dirt cheap. And 1t is the
working mans friend. So let every
working man in Wheeling and vicinity
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-03-11
Query For,
Conservatives

San Francisco. March 4--In discuss
ng the recent Roosevelt, N. j.. strike.
which was won by the workers, who
Inflated with the A. F. Of l., The
Bulletin, of this city, In a leading .edi-
torial,. says:
Labor disputes always wiring from
he conservative heart much sympa-
ny for the independent worhngman
Who stands upon his in2lienable right
10 work for as low wage As he
pleases, for hours as long as, he
2leases, and under conditions Is bad
IS he can md them. The whole
American labor movement has been
set forth more than once as strug-
gle for freedom, in which labor Or
CARNATIONS play the part Of tyrants
and corporate employers the part OF
Galahads galloping to the rescue Of
the independent worker.
1T would be interesting to know
how the followers OF this interesting
gospel are regarding the entire typical
situation at Cartaret, Roosevelt Dor
ough, New Jersey. where nineteen I'M
armed strikers were shot by gunner
on January 10. They would not ap-
prove the shooting. probably, but
would approve of the conditions OF
which the shooting was but develop
nent?.
THE workingmen who performed
the hardest and most distasteful kind
Of toll in the Cararet fertilizer fac
tories used to be paid SO a day. A
man cannot support q family on the
American standard upon such . wage
but those laborers get along as well
as they could Then the companies
started to 'retrench,' and began cut
ting wages to $3.50 q day. ~
Then =, appeared the Independent
workingman', the champion Of indus.
trial liberty. He came, probably, FROM
New York City and other ceuteri
where. unemployed and inexperienced
labor was congregated. He was prob
ably foreigner. Probably, also, the
employment agency which sent him
to Cartaret lied to him about the stu
alton there. With him, no doubt,
were sent disguised agents Of private
detective bureaus. When he reached
the mill he was put to work at $50
a day. II the company can bring in
a sufncient number of laborers who
win work for $3.50 day the working
men who held out for - q day viii
beg to be taken back, or drift to new
fields OF labor. where they may ind
conditions quite as bad, or become De
pendent upon charity.
This would be q great victory fos
the independent workingman.' II
would be . replica of scores Of similar
victories By. which the, wage standard
linz number of occupations has beer
Eforced downward. DO intelligent con
Eseryatives really rejoice whens such
thing happens? Gf they do they ar'
IinconsiStent. tor the path to : grsA'
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-03-11
"Divide and Conquer"

Washington, d. March 4-Anti-
union forces that have devoted
every energy in denying workers
the right to exercise their nor
NAL activities, and who have
been defeated in their efforts by
the American Federation of La
boris insistence that the Clayton
bill be passed, have changed front
and are now posing as friends"
Of the Danbury- hatters while
maintaing at the same time, their
well-known hostility toward the
A. F. of L.
+ In an unsigned circular. en-
titled "What Does Unionism
Mean?" these anti-unionists are
mailing throughout the country
a document consisting Of in
spired" articles from a New Kork
and Boston paper, written BY
their Washington correspondents,
in which the "A. F. OF L. is put in
the position of attempting to de-.
lude the hatters in their numer-
. Gus court suits.
The purpose of these circulars
!: is apparent and is in line with
: the theory so long practiced by
opponents of y the trade union
movement, Divide and Conquer. +"
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-03-11
Oppose Qualification.

Toronto, Ontario, March 4-Trac
lnionists in the Ontario province al.
asking that the property qualiffcatio
for holding any municipal office b,
abolished. The injustice Of this la u
is apparent when it is recalled that M
property qualification is necessary 10,
candidate for the provincial legisla
ture or the federal parliment.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-03-11

The Majority's new loca-
tom is 1906 Market street,
where, with the business Of
fee on the first floor, mail
order department on the
second. and the best ar
ranged printing room in the
state on the third floor, We
are Fable to render better
service than ever, in all lines
Of job printing.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-03-11
Appoint Scale Committee.

Toronto, Ontario. March THE Ty-
biographical union has appointed q
committee to negotiate with their en-
ployers the question Of a new wage
scale.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-03-11

and indiscriminate industrial upheav-
al Is marked by starvation wages and
oppressed laborers, while the way of
peace and @alm development is
through better wages. better working
conditions, and all increasing degree
Of democracy"
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-03-11

Always Ask Ter The UnioH LASH
on al Job Printing; you MAJ get ~
iaaJerlty Company,
nsoilT00neor job Ro0nfO,
~ Va. Printing Company, fgSsistsrls
Wheeling, NeWs LItho. Co.
ohio Valley LItho. Co,
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~ HAeSe N9ERNNp
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-03
METHODS TO CHECK CRIME

The investigation, as undertaken by
the trained NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. must
begin from the unacceptable fact that
all conduct arises from processes of
mental life, declares DIR. William
Healy in the March Case and Com
ment, the Lawyers Magazine. This is
where practical psychology is
brought into play. Then there is to
be found out what are the influences
or conditions which make the mental
activity of this given individual evolve
anti-social conduct. Is it due to men
tai defect, and if so. in what way is
the misconduct initiated - through
weak control of normal psychological
impulses undeveloped inhibitory
powers which normally are opposed
to a thousand and one social sugges-
lions toward misconduct? Is there a
disease or lack of development which
leads the offender to be unduly af-
fected by stimulants, so that the social
balance is readily lost? Are bad
habits of any kind responsible for
lowered mental powers, so that the
relations of cause and effect cannot
be normally discerned? Is the indi-
vidual a victim of physical conditions
which make the path of least resist
ance for him verge towards illegal ad-
ventures Is the mental imagery
which controls conduct subject
through various influences to obses-
sive manifestations? For want of bet
ter mental content, is there continual
turning for satisfaction to thought of
wrongdoing? Has there been habit
formation, so that the individual cam
not get away from the idea of his
being an offender and going on with
his offenseS? Does the individual re-
gard himself as one who has never
found his level except in the realm
of criminalism?
All these, and scores of other most
interesting and important considera-
lions, must be taken into account by
one who would thoroughly and prac-
tically study the offender from the
standpoint of what can be done in
the way of checking his career-the
checking which, with all its schedules
of crimes and punishments, is just
what the law attempts, but as shown
by the astonishing facts of recidivism,
largely fails in doing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-03
Evening Chat
Psychological Hard Timesa
BY RUTH CAMERON.

A letter friend wants to know
whether I think the bad effect of war
on business is psychological or real
and inevitable.
Being a woman, how should L know
anything about such a subject? New
ertheless, being newspaper writer
as well, have an answer ready
If the questioner will peruse the fol-
lowing statement of what the first
six days of war did to one business he
will have his answer.
August Brown, head of the
doughnut trust and a man of wide
experience, instantly grasps the terri
bic effects of the war in Europe on
business and orders a retrenchment in
all departments.
August 3--Smith, wholesaler and
distributor of Browns products hears
that Brown is retrenching and imme-
diately follows suit. likewise 100
other distributors of Browns prod
uctS)
August 4-Jones, grocery man, who
sells dozens of Browns doughnuts a
day, hears that Smith is retrenching
on business, begins to trim sail. (And
999 other grocers, customers ofBrown
and the SO wholesalers do likewise
August 5-Robertson, Jones order
man, proves his fitness for a twelve
dollar a week berth by telling all
Jones customers that times are ter
rlbly hard and that everybody is re-
trenching all along the line. (And
999 other order clerks, employed by
the other grOcerS, tell their customers
the same thing.)
August g. Ninety-nine thousand
nine hundred and ninety consumers
of Browns doughnuts become aware
of the menace of the war in Europe
with regard to business and prosperi-
ty in the United States. They decide
to retrench and begin by giving up
doughnutS.
August browns business sagac-
ity is proved, doughnut business drops
to nothing. Brown, in newspaper in
terview, tells of terrible havoc war
has wrought in the doughnut BUSH
ness.
Did you ever hear of vicious cir
Gle, reader friend? Well, here you
have
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-03

ever, just received, discusses the
naming of General Angeles as the
latest of the provisional presidents to
attempt to do business in that much
troubled land, and is interesting for a
variety of reasons, one of which is the
indication it gives of the esteem, or
lack of it, that the rival Mexican lead
erS have for each other. This bull
letin reads: 1.-The Villa press agent
who sent out the news by wire that on
April the First, new Convention
President would be named, was either
subtle humorist or an unconscious
blunderer. A few months ago when
we published the story that the Ma
dero family backed by foreign inter-
ests had decided upon General An
geles as the next provisional president,
emphatic denials were published in
the New York press by some members
of the Madero family. This candidacy
of the Madero clan was thereupon
kept in allegiance for Angeles did not
cut very much ice as a fighter, only
as a conspirator and an arch-lntr1guer
During the Aguas Calientes conVen-
ton, General Angeles was the gum
shoe Mephisto, the Machiavelian lob
byist who whispered temptations of
supreme power into the ears of such
generals as Obregon, Villareal, Gull
terrez, etc After the ignominious
flight of Eu1alio Gutierrez and the
Sancho Panza presidency of Cara, the
political manipulators in New York
realized that they needed stronger
and less ridiculous figure for their
purpose. And thus they picked out
from the basket of surprises another
Aguas Calientes sandwich: General
Angeles and Don Pedro Lascura1n.
There are people who will remember
that Don Pedro Lascurain was pro-
visional president of Mexico for the
space of fifteen minutes, the famous
Rabelaisian quarter of an hour: He
strutted his little hour and
then vanished into utter nirVana
And now they are both flshed out
again for April fools day. But may
be the news is apocryphal and only a
jest of Don Pancho's brother in CRATE
full remembrance for the good times
he is having in this, our Tenderloln,
for it is whispered that he informed
an inquisitive reporter that he was
born on February 31st."