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Newspaper
The Labor Argus
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1907
Page
3
The Labor Argus invites union news from locals across the State. Secretaries are urged to mail in notices and news items. Submissions must reach the paper by Tuesday each week and be written on one side only.
Local unions urged to subscribe to The Labor Argus annual 81.00 and to boost union labels. Readers are asked to have delegates attend Trades Assembly meetings and to recruit as agents, promising legislative help for workers through the State Federation of Labor.
The Trades Assembly reconvenes after Labor Day for a busy regular session. A local union plans to raise an issue of utmost importance to all members to counter a movement aiming to disrupt several unions. Delegates and all union men are urged and invited to attend.
Telegraph operators in Charleston maintain steady service with the post office still handling messages. The Western Union manager claims pressure from a large monopoly, yet local offices report no break in operations or service interruptions.
Delegates from local unions neglect sending reps to the Trades Assembly and only seek help when in trouble. The Assembly demands active five delegate representation and vows to vacate seats of absent members. Subscription pitch for The Labor Argus fifties per six months, as Kanawha Valley’s paper for the working class.
The Wild West exhibition will feature a Great Train Hold-Up with a painted open air scene showing a genuine engine and train. It will highlight banditry and the Union Pacific’s fight against rail raids, plus dramatic recreations of Summit Springs and an emigrant train attack. The event includes expert horsemen and Western performers with local entertainment by Western girls. The Labor Argus asks miners in the Kanawha Valley to subscribe before January first for 25 cents.
Members of the Society of Equity in Wisconsin vow to combat the food trust that fixes potato prices from 1s to 25 cents a bushel for farmers and 60e to 75 cents and 31 25 a bushel for consumers. They build organization into unorganized territory and collaborate with the American Federation of Labor to push exchanges for farm products direct from farmers, saving millions and striking at food gamblers. The union label signals support for trades unionism. subscribe for The Labor Argus, Kanawha Valley’s only paper for organized labor interests.
A George Ade fable about a pompous husband, Hiram Wiram, whose wife Jessie and high society circle prop up appearances while financial ruin quietly strips away status. As the stock market collapses, the couple’s pretenses crumble, revealing wealth’s fragility and a moral about labor and social maneuvering.
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