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Newspaper
The Labor Argus
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1907
Page
3
Notice requests unions and locals across the state to mail news and notices of interest. Secretaries should assist by sending votives and items to the office. Submissions for succeeding issues must arrive by Tuesday each week and be written on one side of the paper only.
The Labor Argus urges subscription and notes a Monday evening 7 30 meeting of the Capitol City Trades Assembly. It promotes agent inducements and asks readers to patronize Labor Argus advertisers to help grow the paper and support organized labor in West Virginia.
The local Pressmen and Assistants union met Monday evening at Mall for its regular business. Several new members were initiated and routine matters were addressed. Elected to the Capital Assembly were Robert Jarrett and Donald Fraser, among others.
Charleston union members elect a delegate next Wednesday afternoon between 5 and [time unreadable] to represent them at the International Convention meeting in Flat Springs Arkansas in August. Candidates Wade HH Guthr Bert G Shook and J I eizer are campaigning vigorously among the members for votes.
The Capitol City Trades Assembly will meet in regular session on a Monday at 7 50 PM in Assembly Hall. Reports of utmost importance to organized labor will be presented with labor orators from other states addressing the meeting. Carpenters and Dyin unions delegates will report and the Labor Day committee will make its first report. All delegates should be present.
An interesting Charleston Typographical session last Saturday night approved an election plan for a 1st district delegate to be held next Wednesday at Assembly Hall. Tellers Emerick, Jarrett, and Snyder were appointed. The meeting unanimously endorsed Carpenters in their fight for an eight hour day and pledged moral support.
A satisfactory understanding has been reached between The Building Council and the Master Builders Association, promising no further trouble in Seattle Washington's building industry.
A Mine Workers' Journal critique argues some papers misrepresent miners and organized labor. It notes unions suffer from hostile coverage and urges readers to drop biased papers and support labor press that counters calumny.
Eleven workers hired by the Pope Company maniufactured claims of detention and forced labor by thugs at gunpoint. They say they were followed inside the shop and forced to work, were deprived of clothes and tools after escaping, and that a company manager offered excuses about housing them to avoid union machinists. The mayor said he would investigate, noting one man who accompanied the strikebreakers fled from the factory after promises of trouble.
Mrs. William D. Haywood wife of the Western Federation of Miners secretary treasurer travels to Boise to attend the murder trial of her husband against the charge of killing former Governor Steun enberg. She has long been an invalid but declares she will sit beside him throughout the proceedings if allowed by court officials.
The Georgia Railways Company discharged four teen motormen and forty corridors for meeting and attempting to form a union. The action prompts questions about freedom of association and labor rights in the era.
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