Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1916-03-16
OUR LOCALS
Dustin UP
OR A BOX OF JoLTs and
THE NEED OF STARCH.


"Our locals Dustin up" remarked
!. card-carrier in one of our local
towns.
'It's what?" / asked.
"Goin all to pieces
"How's that?"
SAW, this bunch that's been trying
run things have III .ae mess OF
he whole proposition
How so?"
well. you know, running local
eeds somebody with some sense"
1T sure does"
"The clique that's been running
things around here don't know enough
20 come in out of the wet, far less run
local." -.
well how about the rest OF your
ooh, the majority of the boys are
like myself. They got disguised long
ago and don't bother much about it
This other crowd want to be the whole
oflI-of-fare, from soup to nuts. SO we
just let them go to it,
Some bunch you have.
swell, you know how it is. You ge:
few fellows into a local They pull
together. Everything goes under the
one hat. If you're not one OF the gang
well, you're not asked to sit down
They just make motions, second them
and over they go The rest OF us
don't get look-in."
Brother, come again. Elucidate to
your wondering pay how 1t is that one
little clique, as you call it, runs the
local. Don't you vote on the questions
which come before the union"
'tSure, but they hold all the offices.
swell, what's that got to do witt
it?"
'AOh, they're some politicians up
here. When the INNER circle wants tc
put anything over, Trey have a mic
little cacus before they come into the
meeting. The old steam roller stuff
One of them takes the floor, makes
his little chat, another O. KS it anf
the motion is Carried. 1t doesn't mat
ter whether it's right or wrong, l.
goes through.
tfWell, If the rest of you don't wan
it, why do you vote for it?''
I'VE don't"
Stand back. A little air, please.
That's far enough; thank you. NOW
repeat. How does it happen if the ma
jority are not in favor OF motion
the minority puts it over regardless
."They always have their crowd out
to every meeting
Nov, you said something
''sWhat?"
sTts the old story. pardner. The
wise majority don't come out to the
meetings. They don't risk their repu-
tations as members of the owl family
by suggesting or taking part in the
constructive work of the local On.
no! It's safer and so much. easier to
let George do it, If George makes
slip, you can pan him and come
back with the old wallop: I told you
So Isn't that right?"
whats the good of going to all the
meetings? They're running the local.
If the rest of us butted in, there would
Just be arguments, lot Of trouble,
and the fellow who took the floor
against anything they wanted would
probably lose his job"
'Kind brother, just come up under
this arc light. That's fine. You look
perfectly human, thoroughly sound IN
mind, body and limb. Gee, but you
have me doing the whirl You are
union man. Certainly you are. fPeace
at any price, Ell! Some box of jolts
YOU have handed me. Let me Offer
you q fek thinks that possibly haven't
found their way into your headgear
Don't you know, pal. that the fellow
who gets anywhere in this dear, de
| lightful old world Of ours has got to
| fight? You've got to fight from the
| day you're born until you disappear
| over the Great Divide!' You've. got
| to fight to earn your bread whether
YOU want to or not. You've got to
| fight your weaknesses to be man
\ Let that one rest In prominent loca.
ton in your upper apartment Call
on 1t often. Man alive. that's why
| life is the greatest game Of all. It's
a battle. There's an even chance to
Il win. Either you're soldier or g
\ GUTTER God Almighty put you here
/ to do your share. If you sidesteT
you're cheating. There's no one out
Ito get you they are too busy gettine
theirs. Your share is there. Go gel
LIT. Don't sit on the fence and look
EOn. Get into the running. It's worth
II the exertion. Pardner, hustle right
down the, street. turn In at that corner
grocery ana take home box q
starch. Apply 1t to your spinal col
unn. StifEen Ii up. When that opera
alesxass