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Newspaper
The Labor Argus
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1908
Page
3
The Labor Argus touts unions as the only paper in western Virginia to advocate their cause and urges delinquent subscribers to pay up. It calls for a unified effort to rid the state of guards and asks readers to mail subscription renewals and coupons promptly.
The Trades Assembly meeting Monday will elect officers and welcome new delegates from unions. The year ahead is seen as strenuous for organized labor in Charleston, with calls to strengthen unity, organize every craft, and secure workers' wages and hours through broader confederation and the open shop’s defeat.
The annual banquet and social of Local Union No. 97 Brotherhood of Painters Decorators and Paper-hangers of America will be held in the Odd Fellows Temple banquet hall tomorrow evening. Officers for the coming year will be installed including President Edward Kyle Vice President Ed Popp Recording Secretary O W Eagler Secretary-Treasurer W F Loomis Conductor H O Philips Trustee Robert Breedlove. The sessions have aided the movement in the past.
The Painters union has grown strong with most local craftsmen joining, cutting toil hours from ten to eight and raising pay from 1.50 to 5.50 per day. They celebrate progress and urge members to rejoin the Trades Assembly to elect officers, hoping for cooperation to boost organized labor in Charleston next year.
Kortor Lanon Angus urges space to share benefits for carpenters and public aid. The letter highlights funds spent on sickness and death claims, condemns fraudulent requests, and calls for unity, honest effort, and forward action in the new year within the labor union. WA
The eight hour work day and a small wage increase were adopted by the Pressmen Union in a city-wide shift. Signed offices include The Gazette The Mail Spencer Monre & Sons Lovett Printing Co The Labor Argus and Frick W Snyder. The Tribune Printing Co has not signed yet but is expected to join.
Charleston Typographical Union held its regular monthly meeting at Assembly Hall with an extraordinary session. Officers elected: President Jnc. J.ster, Vice President FE. V. Crossman, Recording Secretary Howard Jarrett, Corresponding Secretary W. L. Wright, Secretary-Treasurer J. J. Emericks, Auditing Committee Hert G. Shook, S. Spencer Moore, J. W. Jarrett, Delegates to Trades Union Virgil E. Hindman, J. Mmerick, Jf. Ts. Hizer. A committee was named to confer with the Printers Union to promote harmony.
The Labor Argus invites union secretaries to mail news and notices from local locals across the state. Submit all copy by Tuesday each week, written on one side of the paper only for publication.
The notice requests subscribers start the year right by subscribing and asks any subscriber not receiving the paper or changing residence to notify immediately so corrections can be made.
Local No. 970 of the Painters, Decorators, and Paper-hangers of America announces a membership banquet on Friday evening January 3, 1908, at the Odd Fellows Temple. Officers for the ensuing year will be installed, with Wagner in attendance.
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