The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-08-26
WASHINGTON NEWS.
Ks1anrs OF LABOR MEETING.
what Grand Master powderly has to Say
Aboa. the wabashstr.ks-Goald Charged
with scheming to Fiighten Euglish
BOndholdOrs Into selling Cheap.

WASHINGTON, August 25.-Itis reporte'
during the recent meeting Of the execu
tive committee Of the Knights Of Labor
in this city, that the committee had {
conference with a delegation Of th,
Knights Of Labor from st. Louis. Ex
Mayor PoWderly, Of Scranton, Pa, who |
member Of the committee, denies th,
report.
Mr.. Powderly says that Messrs. Turner
Buchanan, Bailey and Hayes have just re
turned from trip to ST. Louis, whithe
they went for the purpose OF looking int
the trouble which had arisen between th'
labor organization and the Wabash rail
road. Mr.. Powderly was prevented b.
illness from accompanying them. Tht
! four members Of the Board came direc
from ST Louis to Washington, and al
OF tho gentlemen were satisfied tha
they must have been mistaken for a dele
cation Of the st. Louis knights. They
could not account in any other way fol
the report that such a delegation wa
coming hither as they said no snch move
was ever contemplated. Mr.. Powderly,
Chairman Of the Board. Joined the Other
members in this city. Beyond some mat
tors Of interest only to the local ordel
here no business was transacted.
Mr. Powderly said: "We are going
from here to New York, where we hope
to meet ihe managers OF the Wabash rail
road. No, we have no engagement with
them. They have run away from US 80
far, but we hope to catch up with them,
and mem TO, IL II takes oil summer. We
want to taik 10 them, man to man,
and settle this trouble. It has been
given ont that there is strike on
the Wabash Road. That is not trfe. Our
men we're locked out. They did not
strike. They are read and anxious TO go
back to work. No, sir IL isnot q strike.
This whole trouble is cunning move
OF Jay Gould's to scare the English
bondholders OF the road by making
them believe that big strike
| ID on hand and that their property
is likcIyto be ruined. With thatfear be.
fore their eyes, Gould thinks they would
sell out at low figures, and hewould COB.
BILE up the property. We wish TO put our
men TO work. We want to meet the man.
agers, aud il they are not plant tools OF
Jay Gould we lelieye that it can be set
tied.
General Manager Talmage," remarked
Mr.. Turner, Grand Secretary aud 'Treasur-
er OF the Knights OF Labor, tdenied 10 q
telegram to us, that he had ever ordered
| lockout, but We lave On olhcial letter ol
| his in which he says that he first intends
TO break mp the Knights OF Labor, and
that then hc will begin on the Brother,
hood Cf Locomotive Engineers,
lfr. Powderiy said that the board had
only iEsied one order 80 far. in connection
with the Wabash road. he explained
that the reduction of force on; that road
had left 1t without men enough to.do the
work, and his board had issued an
order forbidding the Knights OF Labor
on any OF the other roads OF the
Gould system from cleaning or orrepairipg
rolling stock or handling freight OF the
Wabash Liiie: aE,nhe added pmphnti-
cally, "the Wabash mansgers insist upon
iisregatding that order, II they attempt to
force our men on the other roads 70
| heln the Wabash out, then astrike will
he ordered, and It will be big one.
WHY, 0 locomotive ought TO be thorough.
liz cleaned every three days 10 keepit in
good ard saierunnlng ORDER pat the VA
bash has been running without cleaning;
Some day there will be an explosion and
| then IL will be charged that the knights
Of Labor are using dynamite" Il