Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-19
THREATEN TO RESIGN.
Delegates to the Trades Council May
Leave the Organization
OWING TO THE CAMPBELL CHARGES
The Prosecutors Again Refuse to Make the
Testimony Public.
OTHERS SAY IT is A POLITICAL FARCE

The Central Trades Council of Western
Pennsylvania has not only refused to lay
the investigation of the charges against
President Campbell, of the Window Glass
Workers Association, open to the public,
but they have decided that not one word of
the proceedings shall be divulged. At their
meeting last night another veil of secrecy
was thrown around the star chamber inves-
tigation and any member of the council who
is known to divulge any part of the trial
will be expelled from the organization.
The meeting last night was largely at
tended. especially by those who are prose-
cutting the charges. The only business
transacted the entire evening was to discuss
the investigation. The few members who
wish to see fair and impartial trial tried to
pass motion to admit the representatives
ofthe press. The matter was bitterly op-
posed, and upon being put to vote was de-
feated by % to 8. The delegates from one
of the strongest organizations represented in
the Council gave notice that they would
place the matter before their organization,
and recommend
WITHDRAWAL FROM THE COUNCIL.
If the organization does not withdraw,
the delegates will resign their seats. One
of the delegates who was present at the in
vestigation last Wednesday evening, and
who wants to see fair play, gave
The DISPATCH a synopsis Of the
proceedings of that meeting. He says
the whole investigation is a farce,
being backed up by politicians, and says
that if the Council does not drop the side
show the rottenness will have the effect of
disruptiDg the organization and weaken
every union represented in it. The dele
gate said:
At the meeting Tuesday night next Pres
ident Evans will be placed upon the stand,
and he will be asked to make good his state
ment that L. A. 300 had refused to indorse
Mr.. Campbell. The question of Homer
McGaw spending his own money to prose-
cute Campbell will also come up. This
statement has been made, but in the opin-
ion of the majority of delegates in the
council McGaw is seeking cheap notoriety.
So far as we have been able to discover
there is well laid plot on foot to put
Campbell in Jail. The testimony so far
produced shows that spite work is at the
bottom of the whole matter, and they want
to put Campbell in the penitentiary, rather
than discover a violation of the contract
labor law. The evidence does not show that
there is the least suspicion attached to
Campbell.
THE MOST IMPORTANT WITNESS
is welltknown malcontent In the Window
Glass Workers Association. He said that
while he was abroad, he was only separated
one day from Campbell. He never heard
the latter mention word about scarcity
Of men here and any intention to bring for
eigners to this country. Another peculiar
feature of the investigation, is the part the
American Flints are taking in it. They have
no representation in the council yet their two
highest officers are partly conducting the
trial. Their secretary did nearly all the |
questioning. The testimony was so inter-
esting that two members of the board fell |
asleep before 1880 o'clock.
The people who want to keep the thing as.
quiet as possible and who are de-
termined to do up Campbell are Messrs
McGaw, Evans, Carr, Young, Hayes and
several others. Every person knows why |
McGaw is against him. During the Hop
kins campaign, when the printers here were
lighting the Democratic rat newspaper of |
the city, McGaw was Master Workman of |
D. A. No. 3. Contrary to the instructions
Of the printers, McGaw issued a circular
Hopkins, who was Demo-
cratic candidate for Congress. When they
saw him dragging their fight into politics,
they made it warm for him. He has never
denied that it was worth something to him
to issue the circular.
The green bottle blowers have appropri-
ated 500 to help cover the expenses of the
Notwithstanding being sup |
pressed a minority report will be made and |
the matter given to the press anyhow"
The shop of William McClurg, cigar |
was declared non-union. A |
committee was appointed to call on the
bricklayers and ascertain if harmonious |
relations could not be established with the |
bod carriers,