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Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1916-08-10

In the hight Of these figures. which
are irrefutable, are we asking too
much when we suggest to the Federal
Trade Commission that when it comes
to make its recommendation to Con-
gress that it do not overlook this all
important factor?
Ii Congress is going to do away
with competition between the opera
tors of the coal mines and establish
minimum price below which coal
cannot be sold, then I suggest that
Congress take into consideration this
inadequate wage of the coal miners.
We have it now on the authority OF
the Federal Government that the as
surance Of an adequate subsistence Is
not reached until the family income
has reached $500 year.
Let Congress start in on this re-
gulating business by first establishing
minimum wage that will average
$500 to the coal miner, and 1t will have
goneea long way towards solving the
problem Of cut-throat competition in
1.-THE selling Of coal.
JOHN M BROWN.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1916-08-10
(By Samuel GOmpers, President Ameri-
can Federation of LabOr.)

(By Samuel GOmpers, President Ameri-
can Federation of LabOr.)
Writing to the American Federation
ist, President Gompers traces the in
junction process from its beginning,
when it was developed for use in
cases not covered by law, until the
present time. when injunctions set
aside constitutional guarantees.
"our legal theories and judicial
institutions were inherited from Eng
land" says President Gompers. In
England in the early times the only
recourse for losses for damages to
property or property rights was
through legal procedure in the civil
courts to secure an award for dam
ages. But monetary awards were not
always full compensation for losses,
nor did they afford ample protection
against encroachments of feudal over
lords upon property or property rights
of, their Eetainers.
There developed the custom OF di-
rect appeal to the king or to repre-
sentative of the king. known as the
chancellor, or the keeper of the kings
conscience
The matters involved in such con-
troversies as were brought directly to
the king were questions OF equity
rather than Of law.
The chancellor, who heard both
parties. would report to the king ad-
vising that either the matter be dis
missed or that. an order be issued that
the offender do what he ought to DO
or refrain from. doing something that
would work injustice.
AS time went ON, these precedents
developed into custom and custom into
accepted law. Equity courts became
an important part of the judicial ma
chinery Of England. The chancellor
Became a judge, who. without jury
heard cases for which there was nc
adequate, remedy at law and issued de-
crees- directing that certain course
be'earried out.
These fundamental principles OF
chancery, or equity. were developed:
"d) 1t was to be exercised for the
protection of property rights only.
"(2) He who would seek its add
must come with clean hands.
"(3) There must be no adequate
remedy at law.
go It must never be used to cur
tail personal rights.
"(5) 1t must not be used to punish
crime
Equity courts have been invoked IL
times of industrial disputes for the
purpose of securing from equity judges
restraining orders or injunctions re-
Strainincr worl-arS FROM cnllectiva &C
ton assuring that unity of purpost
necessary to make strike effective
from saying orally or publishing in
formation or doing things necessary t.
induce employers to agree to bettei
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1916-08-10

over work in an decort to get a living
in our American industries is break
ing down more men, women and chill
dren than is the great European war,
and in no place is this deplorable de-
terioration more wildly portrayed sthan
in the effort now being made at the
recruiting stations recently establish
ed all over the United States.
In hfty-four cities and Industrial
centers, 30,2S3 applicants were examin-
ed in hfty-eight days and only 6,718
could qualify for service in the United
States Army. 1 submit that these
figures tell their own story but they
do not tell what it is that causes this
woeful degeneracy.
Federal Health Bulletin No. rs, how
ever. does, and sincerely recommend
to the Federal Trades Commission that
in recommending to the American Con-
gress legislation to regulate the buy
ing and selling of coal that they con-
suit this bulletin and also the report
of the Department of Mines of West
Virginia, for the year 1914, the latest
one out.
This latter report shows the number
Of men employed in the coal mining
INDUSTRY Oh west NATSu1a 10 pe
1904. OF these, about one fourth, or
1924 are pick miners. They are the
highest paid miners in the state and in
the year 1914 earned on an average of
$726.67. This is 1888 less than the
figures set by the governments re-
port as sum necessary for a living
wage"
The wage scale on day labor which
comprise about one half of the men
employed in the industry furnishes
even still greater contrast, and runs
all the way from $500 per day for ma
chinists and electricians to $1.70 for
cokemen and 1924 for trappers.
At the risk of making this article
tedious 1 am going to submit the &C
tual figures computed on the average
number of days worked for the year
which was 223 in all.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1916-08-10

On July 22nd, the coal operators of
West Virginia, representing practical
Nv every company in the state, held a
meeting in the capitol city Of Charles
Ton. The meeting was held at the in
stigation of the Federal Trade Com
mission and was presided over by
Governor H. D. Hatfield.
At the opening Of the meeting a
questionable was passed out to the
onerators entitled "Bituminous Coal
study and a Tentative Schedule This
questionable covered about every con-
ceiyable phase of the mining and mar
kettng of coal except one, and that
omission is the human equations en-
tering into the product.
The idea is to give to the Federal
Trade Commission general line OF
knowledge both from, the producing
When the Commission will have secur-
ed this necessary information it will
20 to Congress and have laws passed
10 protect the industry from unjust
and unfair dealing on the part of I'M
scrupulouS producers"
submit that this is step in the
right direction and suggest to the
Commission that in making their re-
concentrations to Congress that they
de not overlook the most essential
factor in the production of COAL name
" that of human life.
The chairman of the Commission
said that the West Virginia operators
have never received what they should
for their coal because they have had
no organization. They should be or
ganized so that they can establish
minimum prices, and then should stick
to. that price"
Another thing that prevented the
West Virginia operators from getting
what they should for their coal was
the continual fighting among them
selvesb.' This we will admit to be all
very true, and by far the greatest suf-
ferers from this "unscrupulous COM
petition and lighting among them
selves is not the buyer or the seller
of coal, but the actual producer Of
coal, and that is the individual coal
miner.
Coal, as coal. in the bowels Of the
mountains, has no more value than
Ocean The only thing that gives coal
a.value. market value. is the amount
of human labor power necessary to
produce it and deliver it at its base
of consumption, and the value of this
labor power is determined as all other
values are determined. by its relative
cost of production.
If cut-throat competition spells ruin
and humiliation for the operators in
the marketing Of the output of their
4 mines, what has the same competition
Ito say nothing of the competition
among the miners themselves) done
for the miners, the actual coal pro-
ducers?
Bulletin No. 76, recently issued by
the United States Health Department
shows that among American wage
earners 100000 are killed and 4.70O.00(
disabled annually by preventable dis
eases because of their "ecoNomic dis
advantages" This report shows thai
the average family cannot get 'ade-
quate subsistence" on less than $500
a year while more than half the wage
carriers families get less than $4,000
and one third less than $500 a year
-One-fourth of the male wage earners
get less than $40 a week, two-thirds
get less than SIS and only one-tentl
get more than twenty"
1t lis computed that the strain ant
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1916-08-10

lieved to be right by promise OF state
hood, against whom those enlisted un-
der the stars and stripes must night
brother against brother, father against
son, neighbor against netghbor, and
considering the services rendered, does
| not the Federal Government owe Its
proud position among the nations OF
the world to that star in the galaxy OF
states, with its motto, SO appropriately
adopted, after nearly a century OF
yearning Struggle, and in the light OF
such history Of admission to the blue
field, "montani semper liberi"
| With expenditure Of millions each
year justice is sought to be done the
volunteers from other states, why
should not West Virginia, part of Vir-
| ginia, that in trust so conveyed that
great portion of the Union, be reim-
bursed at least the moneys she ex-
pended in equipment and enlistment OF
the soldiers, who did the hardest fight
ing for preservation of the Union?
Even though she can not plead poverty,
is she not entitled to justice, and her
share of the proceeds of sales Of thoss
lands so granted in trust?
| God speed the day when the forces OF
her gurgling streams and rushing Wa
tiers. harnessed by art, shall flash
forth the lightning power to turn the
wheels Of this Nations progress, pro-
tect her from foreign foes, and shed
abroad God given energies to bless the
world, her motto be fulfilled, her man
hood and woman, brightest ornaments
and greatest power, assure her secur'
lity peace and happiness! From heI
echo giving hills soft gales go forth
"to Miss the sun clad vales"!
''Theres a dance of leaves in that as
pen bower,
There's a litter Of winds IN tha'
beechen tree,
There's smile on the fruit ana
smile on the flower,
And a laugh from the brook tina
runs to the sea-"
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1916-08-10

Your Ad. In this paper win bring
business to you that now gose n =
WaN N-S~- 49,.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1916-08-10
why NOT: A MINIMUM WAGE SCALE, too?

W. BROWNn West Virginia
the Majority.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1916-08-10
Woman Reports
Big Increase
In Every Way

UOGANSPORT. Ind, Aug. 10-What
Mrs. Anna c. Isaacs, As years old
wife Of well known meat cutter, of
921 Garfield, this city, has to say about
Tanlac, will prove of surprising in
terest to many people for she has
tried the new medicine and knows
exactly what it can do for a person.
My system was in a general run
down condition" Mrs. Isaacs said on
May 6. Il felt tired all the time |
couldn't stand on my feet very long
while doing my homework, | was so
weak. Frequent headaches bothered
me and my appetite was very poor
l was losing weight
I've improved every way since TAX
ing one bottle of Tanlac I'm gaining
weight also and feel better in every
respect think Tanlac is a great
medicine and want to recommend it
because it has done me so much good -
Tanlac, the Master Medicine, is es-
pecially beneficial for stomach, liver
and kidney trouble, catarrhal COM
plants, rheumatism, nervousness,
sleeplessness, loss of appetite and the
like.
Tanlac is now being specially intro
duced and explained in Richmond at
Glen Thistlethwaite's drug stores
Adv.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1916-08-10

tec, humping It VIII MS boot heel,
prying at 1t with his sole until it
rocked free In its row. Then came
the even sterner task of shifting 1t
from its place. This he did by turning
about and lying close to it, on his side,
so that the fingers Of his tightly i'm
prisoned hand might come in contact
with it's edges. Time after time it fell
back, but in the end he triumphed.
Yet it was not this unearthed brick
which interested him. His attention
was directed towards the rough-edged
parallelogram where that brick had
originally rested, for the corners OF
this opening. he soon realized, pro-
vided him with a saw edge which In
time might serve to abrade and cut
through the stoutest of cotton rope.
But the consolation of this hope did
he started to work, his movements
were interrupted by the sound Of a
key in the heavy iron lock on the door
that shut him in. He rolled over
parently inert body covered both the
loosened brick and the spot from
which it had been taken. He con-
tinued to lie there as though in sleep
of exhaustion, for ais yelled eyes had
already caught sight of the two heavy
featured ruffians advancing into the
room.
Let the poor boob Sleep" warned
the larger man. in a husky whisper
Hes goin' to cash In before mornin'!"
But I'm sick O. markin' time down
in this rat hole. Why can't Legar get
back here where he belongs and do his
own stickup work."
II tell you the docs up to the Col
den house maxim his haul when the
coasts clear! And if you wake that
king there you'll have to cut out the
red-eye and keep busy chokin' of his
holler!"
Manley could hear their shutting
feet as they recrossed the rough floor
ing and then the scrape and rasp of
the rusty lock as they once more
turned the key in the door. But the
moment they were gone he was once
more busy with the cotton rope about
his wrists, for what he had overheard
increased his passion for liberty.
When a man, however, is still youth
fully blind enough to believe in his
start, to nurse the delusion that some
special genius has singled him out and
watches over him, he is not easily dis
couraged. Yet Encouragement came.
and came in form most unexpected,
even before Manley's hands were free.
1t came. in. fact. in the form. of a
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1916-08-10
''TMHE IRON CLAW CLAW"
BY
ARTHUR
STRINGER

green-bodied parrot creeping stealthily
through the rusty cross-bars grillins
the transom above the locked door
He watched the bird slip into the
room, climb along the rusty iron gas
Jet, deliberately turn it on.
Marley knew what this meant, and
1t spurred him to even more frantic
efforts to saw through the cords, still
holding him a prisoner, for already
the fumes Of the escaping gas were
reaching his nostrils.
When one strand Of it had parted,
and he had uncoiled the rest Of it from
his ankles, his head was swimming
and his legs were unable to support
him. So he crossed the room on his
hands and knees, caught at the rusty
gas pipe for support and painfully
drew himself upright His trembling
hand went out, found the gas jet, and
turned it off. And the next moment
he fell face down on the rough floor,
and lay there in q gray daze Of weak
ness.
How long he lay there he could not
tell. But he was aroused by the sound
of thick voices from the outer cham
Der, punctuated by the shrill cries Of
, an angry and scolding woman. He
pulled himself together and possessed
himself of the brick bat, as weapon.
He waited, scarcely breathing, as
the door was flung open. So quick,
however, was the entrance Of the first
intruder that Manley could not lift his
missile before the darkness had swal-
lowed up that shifting shadow. But
standing in the lighted doorway was q
second man, crouched low and leaning
forward with blinking eyes, a blue-bar-
relied navy revolver in his hand. Man
ley, eying that evil face as sharp
shooter eyes his target, let fly with his
poised brick, and let fly with all his
force.
The STOPPING man went down like
clouted rabbit, without sound. But
even as he fell the first intruder, at
the far end of the room, struck a
match. And at that second figure
Marley let drive with the only missile
at hand.
ITO be Continued.)
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1916-08-10
ECZEMA VANISHES
IN A FEW DAYS
Mighty, Powerful Antiseptie, Prescrip.
ton Stops Itching Instantly, and by
Its Use Ulcers, BoiIs, Abcesses
and carbuncies Are Quickly
Healed.

Now that tens of thousands know
that Moone's Emerald Oil will reduce
ugly, dangerous varicose veins to nor
NAL. we want them to know that this
wonderfully effective agent will dry
up eczema eruptions in a few days and
cause the scales to drop off and dis
appear.
1t acts the same way with any skin
disease, such as BARRIERS itch. salt
rheum, redness and inflamma tory skin
troubles.
So powerful and penetrating is
Moones Emerald Oil that piles are alb
sorbed; golfers and wens are made
to disappear and abcesses, boils, car
buncles, ulcers and open sores are
healed in a few days. Moone's EN-
erald Oil is not patent medicine but
is surgeons prescription that for
years has been successfully used in
private and hospital practice. All
pharmacists dispense a small bottle
for so cents and complete directions
for home use come with each bottle.
Leo H. Fihe sells a large quantity of
Moone's Emerald Oil ADV.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1916-08-10
Copyright, 1916, by The
NI6BlEY MOUSE

|
N1bbly was little mouse that never
saw anything that he did not try at
least to nibble at
His mother had told him to be care
full and had punished him more than
once for nibbling at things that were
not good for even a mouse to eat.
One day Nibbley nibbled at piece
OF IRON that was painted nice eatable
color. The paint made him sick and
the iron loosened his front teeth, TO:
even after Nibbley found it was toe
| hard for him to break off with his lit
tie teeth he scraped and scraped at the
hard iron until he found he had loos-
ened his front teeth. and then ran
home crying to his mother
| Il told you some time you would try
the wrong thing" said his mother.
You must go right to bed and have
your face tied up with piece of
| cloth you cannot have anything to eat
until your teeth are well. If they fall
out guess you will have to starve, for
| never heard of a mouse living with
out teeth"
Nibbley was pretty frightened l can
tell you; he got right into his little bed
without word; and that night he was
very sick and had to stay in bed all
the next day.
his mother and father and his sisters
and his brothers talking low, and
Nibbley sat up in bed and listened
This is what he heard:
He is asleep, and if we go out very
softly he won't wake up" said his
mother
He could not eat any of 1t anyway"
said his father. His teeth are too
loose"
HE just loves nice, hard cheese
too" said his sister Tiny
There will be all the more for us"
said his brother Greedy. ....
Cheese and plenty of minced-meat
pies, too" said his brother Fatty.
Wont we have treat. Poor Nibbley;
we will tell him all about it tomor-
row"
Nibbley listened and heard them all
go out, and then everything was still.
Out Of his bed he jumped, for he knew
just what was going on-the whole
family had gone to feast in the pan
try of the house where he lived, and
he had been left at home.
I'll fix them for leaving me be-
hind" said Nibbley, taking off the
cloth around his face; I'll spoil their
old party for them
Out he ran, and upstairs to a place
where he was sure Puss was sleeping,
and jumped up on the shelf we'll out of
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1916-08-10
Kills Pesky
Bed Bugs
r. .. @.

A csc box of P. D. @. makes a full
quart of the best bug-killer on earth.
Better than a barrel of oldfashioned
bug.killer.
P. d. Q. (Pesky Devils Quietus,)
kills like 42-centimetre shell. It
settles bedbugs. tieas. reaches, ants
and chicken lice, and not only kills
tie live pests. but the eggs as well.
p D. @, won't injure clothing, car
pets, curtains, draperies or wall paper
Try 1t on the dog and see the fleas
flop.
Your druggist has it or can get 1t
for you Owl Chemical Co, Terre
Haute, Ind.-Adv.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1916-08-10
@aRs@ &ERE E!E!jE

Newspaper Syndicate, New York.
his reach. "Puss. puss," he called !;
wake up, and l will tell you where
There are some mice-Iots of them,
too"
Up jumped Puss, winking and blink.
/, ing her eyes. Mice, where are they?"
she asked.
Not here, dear Puss," said Nibbley,
trembling in spite of being far from
her reach They are in the pantry,
Puss, and they are eating the cheese
and mince pie"
Something dropped and puss ran to
It, What is this?" she asked.
| Poor Nibbley had lost one of his
front teeth and he began to cry.
| wen, | must be going; you can't be
very fat If you have had nothing to
eat Tor day or two; where did you
say they were, in the pantry?"
Nlbbley nodded his head; he did not
care speak again for fear of losing all
his teeth, and off he scampered for
home.
Fuss ran to the pantry. but Father
Mouse saw her by the door, and just
| as she came out under the shelf
where they were all feasting Father
Mouse gave dish standing near him
tip and over it went right on poor
Puss' head, hurting her and soaring
her more, and away scampered the
whole OF the mouse family safe into
thelr mouse just as Nibbley had COW
cred his head up in his bed.
Inc next morning "a hoard bic
brothers and sisters laughing and tell
ing how their father had scared Puss
away, and how they all had eaten all
they could before she came into the
pantry, so naughty Nibbley knew, too,
that Puss would be on the lookout for
him because he told her about the
mice
| And Nibbley was right, for Puss
| watched every night. 'Ill catch him.
she said, IF I have to watch the rest
| of my life for that mouse with one
tooth gone. l expect he will be very
skinny, because he cannot each much,
but don't care if he is, III catch him
just to pay him for getting bumped
head and terrible scare, besides not
getting one mouse and losing a good
nights rest.
| And if she has not already caught
| Nibbley | expect Puss is watching yet
for him.
Tomorrow's story-"Sadie's Visit to
Shadowland."
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1916-08-10
EXPLOSION PUTS OUT
MoNoSMiTH'S EYES

EATON, o. Aug. 10.-In an explo-
sion which occurred at Columbus, Neb.,
Trav Monosmith, son of Mrs. Ellen
Monosmith, of this city, lost his sight
and suffered other severe injuries. In.
formation received by relatives failed
to give details of the accident The
unfortunate mans brother, Harry
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1916-08-10
Just the Thino for Diarrhoea

About two years ago had a severe
attack Of diarrhoea which lasted over
week." writes w. c. Jones, Buford,
n. D. Il became so weak that I could
not stand upright. A druggist recon-
mended Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy. Tne first dose
relieved me and within two days I
was as well as ever" Many druggists
recommend this remedy because they
know that it is reliable. Obtainablo
everywhere. Adv
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1916-08-10

Monosmith, Of this city, went to that
place Wednesday and will return with
him to Eaton as soon as his condition
permits. Monosmith has been absent
from Eaton for the last five or six
years.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1916-08-10

After three years of work a govern
ment committee has recommended a
uniform system of weights and meas
ures for all India
Bisbee daily review., 1916-07-13

huu II HItuIiily Ql- rects thought as to the comfort of the mother during that wonderful period of expectancy. Mothers who know rec ommend Moth c IT. Friend" It is an ex- ternal remedy for tho stretching muscles, en- ableS them to expand without undue strain. assists the organs to crowd against nerves, to pull at Pigments to. thus avoid pain.