Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-11-28
SENSATIONAL PLOT.
A GREAT IRISH ORDER TO BIB USED AGAINST
P0WDRRLY.
The Board Of Erin Will Throw All It's In
flsnes IN the Scals-PtBburg the Hot
Bed OF N~atiny-BaTy's
Coming Expected.

PTrTsBURG, Novembar 26.-The Post
publishes the following: Barry'scomingto
Pittsburg is problb'y fraught with more
importance to the order of Knights Of La
bor than can we'll be imagined by the IN
initiated. Within q few days probably
one of the most gigantic schemes 10 over,
throw the present administration will be
formulated, and in it some PittsbuIg
Knights are deeply interested. Not only
will the disaffscted Knights as mere mem
bers of the order take part in it. bat the
great Irish-Amsrican societies, the Ancient
Order of librarians and Board Of Erin
will also, it is claimed, be engaged.
Last night q leading member Of the lat
ter organization, breathed into the ears OF
a reporter, the plan as outlined by the
dissatisfied wing of the X. Of L. Thsy
propose 10 bot the present and regular
order of Knights and set up an indepen-
dent labor union that will be controlled
by the men rather than by n person.
Mr.. Barry, it is ~insinusted, will be the
head and front of the union, to be assisted
by some local Knights of Labor who are.
DISSATISFIED WIFE POwDERLY
and the present disposition of the admin
istrative departments Of the order. Those
who protest refer significantly to the fact
thai in 1884, at the convention Of the An
cieat Order Of Hibernians in Cleveland,
the seeding members who are now formed
iuto the American branch OF that order,
we've expelled from the mother organiza'
ton, and among thsm were Master Work
man PoTderly and Assistant PostmaIter
Wilbere, of Philadelphia. The fact is
we'll known that since then those CON.
posing the American brauch Of the
order called themselves the Ancient
Order Of Hibsrnians, while those
who remained true to thu faction, headed
by the officers residing in Ireland, consti-
tuted themselves into the Board of Erin,
which is also the name of their executive
board resident in tGe Emerald Isle. Judg-
ing from the testimony of an important
of the Board of Erin, who is the re-
pOrter's informant, the idea is to mass all
the Knights of Labor who belong to the
Board of Erin and, working in concert, to
suCh q sentiment against the Master
Workman that when the meeting OF the
"independent" Knights is called there
will be TO trouble 10 haviog a n ntion
of boilers which will duly proceed to expsl
Mr.. Powderly and his followers from the
and set up q new labor organization
of their own. This will be called the true
and autographed order.
In the face of this seditiOus talk is an
nouuced the coming OF Thomas Barry, the
lately expelled member of the Executive
who has q whole hstful OF charges
Powderly, which he claims he can
: prove" Mr.. Barry has an immense fol-
in all parts of the country, partic-
ulsrly in Pitaburg, which, at this stage
of the game, is admittedly the
HoT.BED OF MUTINY.
He Is 10 constant communication with
of his rusty local retairers, and
is expected to reach the city day-after-to-
morrow. This significance of his coming
ia appreciated by every knight well.
posted on the situation, and his hold fere
will be undoubtedly stIOlg. In the first
place, he has the chronic 'kiCkers' to
back him, WHO have been for years past
'forninst .he government" secondly, he
has L~ayton's friendship, for the latter is
said to Re very sore on the administration
because of the pledge Powderly broke in
not supporting him for General Secretary;
thirdly, he is said to have ircurred the
of Master Workman Doyle who
bas biKbarto ham q ltaunch UnhOlder of
the administration, and who has a large
local following; fourthly, according to the
above interview, the machinery OF TIE
Board CT Eciu will be brouGh against him.
This is a synopsis of the LEGAL forces, but
to these must be added tho foreign which
include the d~isgruntled Fred Turner, who
has the large d. A. No. l, of Philadelphia,
q. his back, and the cases of the iso'at-d
LODGES whose chief men are dissatisfied and
wiling to jOiu any standard bearer who
will deliver thom fIon the slteged thrs!i-
dom of the reputed POwderly yok9.