World of Labor Special Meeting Delay and Subscription Offer
The World of Labor announces a special meeting of the Trades Assembly for Monday at 7 30 pm to discuss business of importance. It urges readers to report missed deliveries, offers a Labor Angus subscription for one dollar through January 1 1909, and notes the meeting will reconvene next Monday with a committee reporting progress to help Charleston become the best organized city in the state.
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Trade unions hold mass meeting to plan organizing drive
A large Charleston mass meeting of the Tradex Unionists convened at Assembly Hall, called by the Charleston Typographical Union and endorsed by Capitol City trades. The session formed a permanent committee with the Trades Assembly to revive organizing, endorsing Sunday closing for barbers, and pledging closer union cooperation.
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Charleston
Capitol City Trades Assembly
John KR. Poster
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Frank W. Snyder
Labor Argus
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Trades Assembly
Barbers
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Tradexionists
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Assembly Aroused at Capitol City Trades Meeting
Greater interest drew a large delegation to the Capitol City Trades Assembly on Monday. President Fitzwater opened the session at eight. Unions reported smooth progress, the Labor Day Committee filed its final report, and new delegates were pledged. A Musicians Union dispute prompted a special committee to assist them, and the assembly endorsed Saturday’s mass meeting proceedings while appointing delegates to carry out ongoing organizing work.
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Capitol City ‘Trades Assembly
Fitzwater
Labor Day Committee
Musicians Union
Bartenders Union Urges Card and Button Campaign
The Bartenders Local 585 met at Assembly Hall with strong attendance and transacted substantial business. It urged members to display union insignia and promote organizing across city bars while reporting the National Convention in Toledo Ohio with the push to split Bartenders and Cooks and Waiters into separate bodies. J Pauley represents the local. Members urged to act.
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Bartenders International League
Assembly Hall
Toledo
Ohio
Pauley
Clerks to Organize in Charleston
Retail clerks plan a citywide union, with application blanks in circulation and many signatures already secured. The Pinneiere group is praised as hustlers likely to drive a large, persistent effort to enroll nearly all city clerks within a week.
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Nate
Charleston
Pinneiere
Electrical Workers Convention in Detroit to organize District 6
The Electrical Workers of Ohio and Michigan District No 6 will hold a Detroit convention starting Sunday November 2 to thoroughly organize the district. The note adds that Butterick patterns and publications including The Delineator and Designers are produced by non union labor.
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Electrical Workers of
Ohio
Michigan
International Union
Detroit
Vian
President Small Suspended by Labor Board
President H. J. Small is suspended by the General Executive Board of the Commercial Telegraphers. The action follows his appeal to unions to vote on continuing the strike, with the union movement vowing to fight on and secure financial backing as they renew the contest. Local leaders claim a swift shipment of companies and improvements in working conditions. Subscribe for The Labor Argus.
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J. Small
Commercial Telegraphers
Wilbur's Flight From Pewee Junction to Culture
A whimsical tale follows Wilbur as he departs Pewee Junction with dreams of becoming County Superintendent of Schools. His father fears the expense and fate of ambition, while Wilbur assembles a traveling showcase of books, equipment, and a boarding-house plan. The narrative traces his return and clash between rustic skepticism and looming cultural awakening.
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Pe Wee Junction
Paw
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Thooka
Fitz
Hanvard
Non-Union Publications Listed for Interment and Support
A notice states which publications are to be interred alongside workers and their families, listing periodicals such as McClure's Magazine, Century Magazine, Bookman, World's Work, Good Housekeeping, and others produced by Phelps Publishing Company of Springfield, Massachusetts. The context implies a collective action or protest affecting workers and their dependents.
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MetClure
Century
Bookman
Sisurt
SL. Nicholas
Black Cat
Spare Moments
the Housekeeper
Tappincot
Good
Karmanid Home
Oringe Fudd
Agents Wanted for The Labor Argus in West Virginia
Help wanted notice seeks five agents to cover every town in West Virginia for The Labor Argus. Liberal commissions offered. Immediate inquiries requested for details.
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Labor Argus
West Virginia
Paper Delivery Notice For Subscribers
Ra Any subscriber not receiving his paper regularly or who may change his residence will please notify us at once so we may correct same.
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