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Newspaper
The Labor Argus
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1906
Page
5
Local unions urge members to attend officer elections and business meetings. Carpenters Union and Capitol City Trades Assembly mandate active participation. Plasterers Univ rally promises to energize older members to stay involved. Labor Argus promotes union labeled goods and timely civic engagement.
President Nugent leads the northern state effort for the miners group. J H Shank of Dungriff visited the Mineworkers District HQ on local business. Frank L Rice, sick, is slowly recovering at Cedar Grove home. Cairnes and Morris report bright prospects in the Kanawha region after a Raymond City meeting. Local Union 2005 at Dungriff joins the State Federation of Labor and will send a delegate to the annual convention. A mass meeting at Black Betsey, with Frank Tyree present, resolved differences with management and boosted local union strength.
During the St Louis street car strike a union motorman refused to stop working despite threats. His wife, wielding a barrel stave, dragged him from the platform and disciplined him for disobeying. The athletic woman was later favored as honorary union member.
A movement seeks to form an Employing Printers Association to replace the defunct Typothetic and counter union busting. Employers friendly to the typographical union back the effort, aiming to reckon with a lasting union as a power in the craft and reduce past losses from anti union tactics.
After a yearlong dispute with the New Heaven Typographical Union the leading Teapot firm C. & Whaples Co. decided free and independent labor was too costly and rehired their former staff.
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