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Newspaper
The Labor Argus
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1907
Page
3
The Labor Argus invites locals to mail news and notices to be printed. Help by sending updates and items of labor interest. All copy for forthcoming issues must arrive at the office by Tuesday each week and be written on one side of the paper only.
Local veneer mill announces expansion plan adding new equipment and jobs. City officials expect economic ripple as production capacity increases at the Riverside plant. No date given. details hinge on forthcoming permit approvals and community impact discussions.
The text urges union members to attend the next meeting to appoint a Labor Day Committee and renew subscriptions to The Labor August. It promotes union printing, urging patronage of advertisers who support the paper and notes Caldwell’s disappearance and a Labor Commissioner’s trip abroad to recruit foreigners for West Virginia, with plans to visit the UK and Ireland.
A fragment discusses how manufacturers set prices through supply limits and trusts, contrasting that with workers seeking a voice in pricing labor and protecting against rapacious combines. It notes unions forming to end injustices and promote labor standards, framing reform-minded thinkers unaligned with partisan axes.
The Ohio Valley Trades and Labor Assembly group raising funds to erect a Pallack memorial reports $8,551.40 donated by unions and union men to date. Secretary Treasurer Harry P. Cochran notes strong support from the labor community in Wheeling.
A cat lures mice by masquerading as dead and as a flour bag to catch them, but an old mouse warns that appearances can deceive. The tale ends with a warning that risking safety leads to grievous mistakes, a moral applied to labor unions and vigilance.
The Detroit Typographi won its first victory in the eight hour union battle by signing Morson Printing Company, one of the city’s largest Typoth firms. Employers had been stubborn, but the break in their ranks suggests others may quit resistance and settle with the union.
A Texas law limits railway telegraph operators to eight hours of work in a day, per an official statement from the Order of Railroad Telegraphers. The ruling is expected to trigger a statewide strike affecting every railroad in the state.
Reports from oaancisee allege the strike breaker and a spy named James Iley have posed as a millionaire in San Francisco for two months. The city is described as facing numerous examinations and public scrutiny in these matters.
The article details the Union Printers' home at Colorado Springs with a tuberculosis hospital nearby. It highlights treatment advances, recovery of workers, and the tent colony experiment supported by International Typographical Union members, with board members spread across multiple states including James M. Lynch and J. W. Bramwood at Indianapolis headquarters.
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