LAWLESS VAMPIRES AND GUARDS IN WEST VIRGINIA MINING
An editorial denounces the guard system in unorganized West Virginia coal fields. It accuses corporate promoters of defending hired gang protection, condemning lawlessness and slave-like conditions under mine owners. The piece calls for stricter state action.
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Must Stand Firm Against Long Hours and Union Action
The piece urges laborers to endure hard work as the price of success and to support labor unions in achieving shorter hours. It condemns ten hour systems, defends eight hour gains, attacks anti-union forces like the National Association of Maintheliers, and calls readers to educate, organize, and subscribe to The Labor Argus to bolster pro labor efforts in West Virginia.
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Labor unions and Taft clash over union reform and child labor
Anxious visitors dispute wartime aims and union strategy while West Virginia labor factions plan to unite. Taft predicts retirement while urging constructive service, warning against political graft and disruption. Child labor is condemned as reverse of natural order and a cause of vice.
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