The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-09-29
Organizers Will Expect
Protection From State
Police.
RlT SHOT FOR governor
Delegate Reports to Trades
Council on the Steel
Strike.

logan county will be organized this
lali,R declared w. NJ. Rogers, Fair
mont, president of the West Virginia
Federanon of Labor, in addressing
lWenty-fiyes delegates at the meeting
Of the Monongahela Valley Labor and
Trades council in Willard hall on
sunday afternoon.
BE declared that place" will be or
ganized even II the forces Of the Amer
lean Federati ton Of Labor are necessary
and he believed that some of the Fair
mont labor advocates might assist in
the work Of organization.
MI. Rogers gintimated that the Lo-
gan fields viii be organized regardless
Of cost and IN face of any opposition
that the labor organizers might have
bitted against them. Nov that Gov
sfnor Cornwell has his state police let
him use them and get rid of the COM
pany gunmen,s' added Mr.. Rogers. The
lahor Organizers will go peacefully to
Logan county to organize the fields
and we expect the governor to give
as protecton.g
While speaking on the subject Mr..
Roger recalled a statement made by
tSovslIlor GornHelIto labor people that
mad the state police you could
oraanize the Logan tields in ninety
days, We'ref going to take the gov
eriior at his own word and take up the
organization work there in good faith," !"
said Rogefs.S In the course Of his re-
marks Mr.. Rogers made 1t plain that
the organization work would be done
along proper lines. Law and order
VIM be respected and efforts viii be
made to attain the work by peaceful
methods. He tcontrasted the working
conditions in the Fairmont field with
those OF Logan county and added that
he was accused Of playing politics,
which he denied and declared that 1t
was one OF the biggest achievements
accomplished by the State Federation
Of Labor. We want the miners of Lo-
gan county to have better living con-
ditions and better working conditions.
M Rogers took issue with Governor
CornWeIl on his attack on the nation
alization OF the industries Of the coun-
Try which he made before the Ma
tional Paint OIL and Yarnish Assocta-
ton at White Sulphur Springs. One
Of the pointed paragraphs from the
address OF the governor, which was
read BY Mrt Rogers was '1n order to
gain their end, the labor leaders plan
10 starYe the country into submission
through q nation wide strike" Mr..
ROGERS declared that men in public life
Who take such a stand against the
working man, regardless Of politics,
are against the best interest of labor
and Do not want to see labor receive
Aside from President Rogers as
sertion that Logan county will be or
eanized and a general naying Of Don
chafin, the Logan county deputy
sheriff who was Shot in Charleston
last week by William Petry, vice pres
ldent Of District II, United Mine
workers, the principal item of inter-
est was the discussion Of the steel
workers. strike as presented by John
Filzpatrick present leader Of the
striking steel workers, In report be-
fore the convention Of the American
Federalion Of Labor in Atlantic City
prior to thet time the strige was called,
The conditions we're reported as to
how the steel workers were handi-
CAPPED IN forming an organization ana
the mayor OF McKeesport, Pa, would
not permit any meetings to be held.
Continued on page four)