St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-07
BARRY'S PARTING BLAST
He Scathingly Arraigns the Administra-
ton Of the z. of L.
OPEN CHARGES OF FRAUD.
The Saginawian Has Little Admiration
for Powderly or His
Methods.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
EAST SAGINAW, Mich, Oct. Ct. B..
Barry, member of the general executive
board of the Knights of Labor, has sent
lengthy letter, addressed to the chair
man and members of the general eXecu-
tive board of that order, resigning his
position as a member of the board. In
his letter he scathingly arraigns the adj
ministration of the affairs of the
Knights of Labor. He says that
he cannot longer endure to be
witness to the many farces and
deceptions practiced upon the innocent
masses, that he finds to be one of the
members of the general executive board
is to be party to fraud that leads the
unthinking masses to hunger and social
suffering, with nothing for it but prom
ises never intended to be kept. Mr..
Barry says he desires to see the order
live, but thinks it is impossible for it to
survive another year under the methods
now practiced by the present admins
tration of the order, and that
THESE PRACTICES MUST CEASE
If the order is to live. The chief quail
fications, Mr.. Barry asserts, for mem
bership Oh the general executive board
are falsity, deception and to be able to
tyrannize over those whose only privi-
lege is to bear assessments, to solve the
social problem for ourselves and our
families by seeing that the salaries of
the board are paid. He charges the
board with discharging knights of
Labor employed in the general offices
and putting in their places persons who
were not members of the order. In
stead of calling the general offices of
the Knights of Labor 1.-THE headquarters
of united labor" it would be more ap-
propriate, Mr.. Barry declares, to call
it the
LUXURIOUS HOME OF RATS.
He charges the board with chiefly
being engaged in crushing the districts
or individuals in the order who dared to
criticise it's acts, and declares he would
have exposed the methods of the board
at the Richmond convention had he not
been called away, and also the system
it practiced upon representatives of the
order assembled there when all persons
suspected of being unfavorable to the
board were numbered, in order that the
spies might pick them out the more cas-
lily, dog their footsteps and learn their
sentiments toward the board. Mr.. Bar
ry also intimates that these spies were
paid out of the funds of the order. The
executive board is also charged with de-
ceiving the order by an incorrect re-
port of the proceedings of the
Minneapolis assembly and publishing
only so much of the proceedings as were
satisfactory to the board. He stigma
tiZes the statement made by one John
M. Decker in his printed report to the
Knights of Labor of Michigan as false.
Mr.. Barry expresses the hope that the
next general assembly will be more free
from the
CORRUPT INFLUENCE OF LOBBYISTS
than the last. He charges the present
administration of the Knights with US
ing the official organ of the order for the
purpose of deceiving the masses and de-
strOying individuals and newspapers
who dared to crticiSe its acts. Mr..
Barry asks if it was right for the board
to refuse the starving and locked-Out
tanners and curriers' of Peabody, Mass,
who were denied the privilege of
earning a living because of
their allegiance to the order
when the order had S137, 900 in bank and
if it was right why did the order send
them $4,000 when the demand was
made that such amount should be sent
them by districts representing votes
enough to elect OF defeat the members
of the board of the Richmond assembly.
He declares if it was wrong to extend
aid before this demand was made it
was equally so after. This ac-
ton by the board, Mr.. Barry
says, would appear to the un-
preiudiced mind, was for the purpose of
securing to it votes sufficient to insure
the reelection of its members rather
than relieve the suffering tanners. Mr..
Barry reviews his connection with the
Knights of Labor since its inception,
and defies any man, woman or child that
ever attended session Of the general
assembly to say that he has either di-
rectly or indirectly intrigued in any
way to influence their votes to secure
his election to any Office held by him.
Mr.. Barry concludes as follows: "For
my official acts have neither apologies
nor regrets to offer. did the very
best could to serve the order, and no
one can do more. LhOpe that the COM
mon sense of the honest masses will
soon prevail, and that the order may be
saved from the rocks of destruction It
has run against in the past few years"