Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-04
JEANETTE, PA.
THE LABOR SIDE OF IT.

Mr.. John NJ. Kelly, one of the local labol
leaders, and the recognized spokesman o
Messrs. Campbell and Cake since the incep
tion of the pending investigation regarding
imported glass blowers, gave The DIS
PATCH, in an interview last night, his YER
sion OF the authorship of the remarkable
bogus business card above alluded to. Mr..
Kelly said:
''These cards were passed on the streets Of
Pittsburg this evening by a window
glass manufacturer. To my mind, this
action of - only proves what 1 have long
suspected, that the Blanks, angry with
President Campbell, of the Window Glas.
Workers, and the Window Glass
Workers Association, for the stand
they took in the last Presidential
campaign, will descend to any trick
or subterfuge in order to cast
diseredit on President Campbell and the
Window Glass Workers Association. In
his last annual report to his association,
President Campbell stated that -
had attempted to induce, for consideration,
John Costello, now a member of the Gen
eral Executive Board of the knights of
Labor, to stump for Cleveland and free
trade. HIS efforts were unsuccessful, and in
revenge for President Campbell's public
acknowledgment of this fast, the Blank
Bros have sought, ever since, to injure
Campbell and the Window Glass Workers
Association in the eyes of the public.
''It is ordinary courtesy, at the end of a
political campaign, for a political news
paper to at least give an opponent bit of
rest. However, an organ of free trade in
Pittsburg has, more vindictively than ever,
since the campaign ended, assailed per-
sonally, and prosecuted all in their power,
President Campbell, who with his associa-
tion, had the hardihood to declare publicly
that free trade meant
A REDUCTION OF WAGES
for them, and that he and they would op-
pose it all within their power It has not
been a mystery to me why this thing was
done. Blank Bros.'s window glass
factory is one of those places that some of
the best workmen in the trade avoid. For
this reason, and on account of the political
independence of Local Assembly 800, the
Blanks have never stopped in their per-
secuIion OF Campbell and the Window Glass
Workers, and they have found ready tool
to carry out all their designs.
"The circulation, on the streets Of Pitts
burg, by member of this firm, of these
libelous cards, would hardly call for more
proof of nv assertions. 1t is nv honest be-
lief that President Campbell and the win
dow glass workers will concluSively show
their innocence of any conniving at, or vio-
lation of. the contract labor laws of the
United States. The window glass workers
were more instrumental in having this con-
tract labor law passed than any other asso-
citation. President Campbell himself,
at that tine but a private member
OF the association, spent his own
time and money in efforts to have the law
passed. Py this law, Local Assembly 300
is enabled to protect its trade in America
from foreign labor, and it would be pre-
posterous to imagine that they connived at
its violation when they alone would be IN
jured by it. Because President Campbell
and Secretary Cake did not believe it was
necessary ior them to deny or affirm the
stories relative tc these alleged imported
wOrkmeu, it has been taken for granted