Labor Day Preparations in West Virginia City
Local unions plan Labor Day events for a major state Federation of Labor meeting in January. Prominent mine worker Embleton visited district headquarters as a party nominee for Mason county delegates. Steamship J Q Dickinson to run Labor Day excursion with stops at Crown Hill Cabin Creek Junction and Cedar Grove.
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State Federation of Labor
West Virginia
RLPL
Emideton
Pomeroy Bend
Embleton
Mason County
Newsboys
Heit
J. Q. Dickinson
Pratt
Crown Hill
Cabin Creek Junction
Cedar Grove
Henry Jenkins
Hartford City
United Mine Workers
Ben Davison
Montgome
Henry M. Grounds
Powellton
Ulm. W
Lahor Argus
Pol Tel Flyin
Typographical Union
Assembly Mall
Labor Day SerMon Planned by City Clergy
Rev Ernest Thompson of First Presbyterian church will open Labor Day services at the park with a prayer and remarks aimed at trade unionists. Rev Ernest Sceninsen of Dickinson Church invites all union men to attend Labor Sunday observances at his church and at all services, marking the first national Labor Sunday observance.
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J.C. Adler
W.D. Baldwin
Rey
Ernest, Thompson
First Presbyterian Ehaveh
Anne
Rev
Thompson
Ernest Sceninsen
Dickinson Church
South
Charleston
Labor Day Decorations at Moores 118 Capitol Street
Decorations for Labor Day include flags festooning plumes bunting canes and related items set at Moores 118 Capitol Street for the holiday display.
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Moores
Capitol Street
Rights and Labor Freedom Versus Wage Slavery
A historic defense of unionism and the fight for liberty from wage slavery. The text argues the need to resist capitalism’s wealth inequality and defend free speech, press, and meetings, urging workers to awaken and organize against oppressive power structures represented by leading industrial families.
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United States
American Federation of Labor
Russi
Astors
Vanderbilts
Rockefellers
Fraxer Co. Labor Day Proclamation At One Price Clothiers
A Labor Day proclamation invites readers to visit Fraxer Co The Only One Price Clothiers to learn about their firm aimed at improving value for laboring customers and offering the lowest prices The notice emphasizes welcoming shoppers to explore their through line and call for details.
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Fraxer Co
Ministers as delegates at labor union meeting
Rev John B Dev editor of the New York Observer and Rev M S Littlefield faced objections before the Central Labor Union over admitting delegates. Littlefield asserted church qualifications and pledged a church quilt, saying only union labor should work on it. The move drew mixed reaction with calls for bridging labor and church through mutual contact. the church remains cautious yet hopeful.
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John B. Dev
New York
Obs
M.S. Littlefield
Labor Union
Littlefield
Tf Laernal
Christian East World
Breich
Ham
Postoffice Employees Organize Federational of Postoffices
The postoffice clerks form the Federational of Postoffic ion Moni of the Ame ricr, with officers elected in Chicago Louisville Milwaukee and San Francisco. J waukee is President and Ca vency is Treasurer, a National Organizer appointed. The plan has long been in talks and promises rapid growth.
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al Federational
Postofficion
Moni
Americr
Chicago
Louisville
Mil- House
Jwaukee
Cavency
San Francisco
Union Qualifications For A Genuine Union Man
A 1906 editorial outlines required qualities for union members citing justice, unity, labor support, and loyalty to the Constitution. It urges organizing, purchasing union-made goods, paying dues, reading labor literature, and voting for judges and leaders who uphold equal rights regardless of creed or race, warning that without union strength workers face oppression.
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Lrd
United States
Baxeibar
Government ownership urged to curb railroads
The piece argues railroads should be state controlled or operated to end private profit, noting their vast wealth concentration and influence over Congress. It cites deadly wrecks and calls for national regulation or public ownership to protect self government.
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United States
Asman
Congress
Unions Debate Worker Support Amid Fatal Accident Fallout
A Chicago union resolution proposes keeping workers at their posts after fatal accidents and allocating 50 percent of wages earned on the accident day to relief funds. The Michigan Supreme Court bans broom production at the state prison, a move tied to the Broommakers Union case. The Farmers Union is noted to boast over 500000 members in southern cotton states.
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A Hom
Charleston
Chicago
United Mine Workers
Supreme Court of
Michi
The
Broommakers? Union
Farmers? Union
South
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Hauvok, Mimager
Seymour Hess & Bro
Summers Street
SEITE
Edeles OY
Rev. Thompson
Central Federated Labor Union of
New York City
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Mlay Shoe Co
Elkridge
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Charleston, W. WA
I. E. Nichols
Capitol St
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Falone
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