The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-02-14
MIsREpREsgNTHD TnE SITUATION.

Rankin has continually misrepresented
the situation here. He has pulled the men
away from work and wages and now when
he finds the game won't work he says to
them go away and find work. We villa
tend to matters here. Pay up your dues
and take out your withdrawal cards and
get your old places back Why the men
here are so angry at him that would not
be surprised II they threw him in the river
when he comes back"
Other potters visited were Of like opinion
with MIR. Knowles and Mr.. Brunt.
At2o'clock in the afternoon the locked
out Knights held a meeting in the City
Hall. Through special dispensation by
the Master Workman, Mr.. John 0'Neill,
the reporter was admitted. Tickets had
arrived to send three men TO St Johns,
Canada, one to Trenton, N. j., and several
to other places, and the meeting was to
select those who were to 20. The same
meeting appointed committee OF three TO
visit Washington to appear before the Con-
gressional committee appointed 10 inquire
into "the cause OF labor lockouts and
strikes" The men appc inted signifed
desire to meet like number OF the boss
potters before the committee.
MIR. 0'Neill, the master workman, said
the men who went back to work on with
drawal cards did 30 regularly after paying
up all dues, as they had right to do under
their rules. $50 long" said he, "as there
was any hope OF keeping one shop shut
down no withdrawal cards were granted.
The men who did go to work were ashamed
to ask for them and sneaked back to their
old places and swallowed the iron Clad
Last week when Homer Laughin and
George S. Harker, the two potteries on the
river, and the only ones We had stopped
entirely, got enough men to start, and
man from Wheeling came up to take
the forcman's place at Harker's, we
told Harker's old foreman, who
was out with US, TO 60 back
and get his place. He did, and Of course
more followed, for reasons satisfactory to
themselves. That action was taken at the
meeting on last Wednesday night, when
A. @ Rankin was here, and since that time
l have granted eleven withdrawal cards
and sent as many more away TO work other
places. Then we had in the town great
number Of Catholics and United Presby-
terians who came out with us on principle,
but who had other reasons for not joining
with us. OF course they are going back,
and 1t does look as II we had lost the fight.
We have retained the principle, however,
and the next time the issue Is made il will
be on battle-ground chosen by u.s."
HARD TO GET AT THE TRUTH.
Tho true condition OF affairs is bard TO
determine. The knights and the potters
are mutual in their willingness to pro-
nounce anything totally false which ema-
mates from the other side. The Knights
are working for yodry Bros. and Wallace
& Chetwynd under the agreement super
ceeded BY the iron. clad in other shops.
The men say they are true Knights, and
the potters say the old and the new agree
ments are one in sense but different In
language. The pottsrs say that trade
never was 80 good, nor hall so good, as the
present season.. John Shinger, the Mas.
ter Workman in Wheeling lodge, went
to work at BruntH last week. james =.
Green, author Of that famous paper, "a Lie
Nailed" and the predecessor oi Mr.. O'Neili
as Master Workman OF the knights in East
Liverpool, Is quietly at work at Knowles,
Taylor & Knowles pottery. A business
man on one OF the prlncIpal tnorouRnIdteb
said: "I see home boys married men
with property in LIVERPOOL looking for
work all day, and l feel sorry for them.
They can't afford to go away to Canada for
work and their places in the factories have
been filed either by promoted apprentices
or imported journeymen, who will not be
discharged"
The Knights say their failure is entirely
owing to the fact that Mr.. Raukin was not
satisfied with fighting one or two shops
where the trouble arose, but urged the In
cuson Of all, which was impossible.
Those who have been out for the past
eight months feel very sore at the turn at..
fairs have taken. AT the present rate OF
progress 1t will apparently not require
more than a month 10 exhaust the supply
Of locked.out potters in Liverpool.