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Newspaper
The Labor Argus
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1907
Page
4
The Labor Argus seeks to include all local union news and labor items from the state. Secretaries of locals urged to mail news and notices to the office. Copy for issues should arrive by Tuesday each week and be written on one side of the paper.
The Central Labor Union of the District of Columbia adopts resolutions denouncing Charles A Stillings as an enemy of organized labor. They accuse him of violating the eight hour law, favoring the open shop, lowering wages for loyal workers, raising salaries for officials including himself, and disrupting unions such as the Bookbinders. The union requests the U.S. president remove Stillings under lawless authority and sends copies to the president and trades assemblies nationwide.
The Labor Argus seeks agents across West Virginia to sell and distribute the paper. Subscribers are offered a six month rate with 41 and 60 cents top six months. The paper highlights support for workers and children and urges unions to subscribe to spread labor views.
In a village the ancient tower clock, said to be the world's oldest, suddenly strikes midnight for the first time in many years. Gretchen, betrothed to Haos Huntsman, remains calm while elders fear a foretold calamity as the clock's readiness to toll again drives villagers to wakefulness and superstition.
The American Federation of Labor issues the call for its Twenty Seventh Annual Convention to be held in Norfolk Virginia starting Monday November 1 1907 sessions at the Auditorium Building Jamestown Exposition grounds and Armory Hall Norfolk The convention outlines representation rules for national unions state federations and local trades unions with delegates elected two weeks prior and credentials required before the opening date Delegates from federal unions must be in good standing and pay dues through September 1907.
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