Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-01
]. NJ KELLY RESIGNS.
His Leaving the Executive Board
Tantamount to Expulsion.
HE WILL NOT DO THE POO BAH ACT.
The Callaghan Charges Against POwderly
End in Smoke. f's4rs
A GREAT COKEWoRKERs MEETING.

The meeting of the Central Trades Coun-
ell last night was largely attended by dele
gates in expectation of hearing interesting
disclosures in the Philips and McGaw
episodes.
After the transaction of some routine busi-
ness John Philips was accorded the privilege
of the floor for the purpose of making q
statement in regard to his expulsion
from L. A. 300. In the course of
his statement, which was quite
lengthy, Mr.. Philips produced evidence
to prove his assertion that he had been ex-
PEELED from L. A. 300 by reason of his hay-
ing given evidence before the Trades Coun-
Gil in the Jeannette case, and asked the
council 70 appoint committee of Knights
of Labor to examine into the genuineness Of
the proofs he put forward.
The council named q committee of three
knights and took a recess while they re-
tired to examine the documentary proofs
rendered by Mr.. Philips.
SATISFIED WITH HIS EVIDENCE.
Upon returning the committee stated that
they were perfectly satisfied with the genuine
ness of the evidence adduced by Mr.. Philips
in support of his statement. A motion was
then offered and carried that the matter of
Homer L. McGaw's expulsion from the
Knights of Labor, and John Philips expul-
sion from L. A. 300, be referred to the Ex-
ecutive Board for action.
A motion was also adopted that charges
be preferred against John NJ. Kelly. editor
of the Con1nloner, before the Executive
Committee for his action in the glassworkers'
case, the board to report at the next meeting.
An amendment to the constitution was
offered, to the effect that each and every
member elected to the Central Trades Coun-
Gil shall be Yorkingman, and shall also be
working at the trade OF which his assembly
is a representative. The amendment lays
over until the next meeting.
Mr.. John NJ. Kelly. editor of the Com
n1oner and Glass Worker, was seen last
night, and when spoken to relative to the
action proposed to be taken against him by
the Trades Council, said:
MIR. KELLY's SIDE OF 1T.
Some two weeks ago when the McGaw and
Phillips cases were brought up before the
Trades Assembly 1 stated that L. A. 800 had
every power to discipline its members for in
fraction of its rules. Last night Phillips called
me a liar and a perjurer, because when ap-
ago made certain statements which he char
acterized as false. replied to him that he had
been suspended from l. A. 800 for three
months for appearing before the Trades
6aS been from dons So Hs
case was reported to the convention, which de-
cided that il should be reopened. On; the re-
hearing some Of the evidence was that when
certain of the minutes of l. A. 30Ower found
to be in the hands of the Trades Council, L. A.
300, on investigation, found that all the minutes
were intact except one which had been sent to
q preceptor within the city Of Pittsburg:
The preceptor was called up and admitted
that it had passed from his hands into John
Philips possession. The preceptor was sus-
pended and subsequently the missing minutes
were published in a daily paper. Philips was
then expelled from the organization for Vio-
latIng his obligations.
HIS REs1GEATIoE MADE.
Later in the evening delegate referre6tp
the fact that /, in my paper, had called the !
prosecutors scoundrels and that the Trades /
Assembly had compelled me to retract. Before
the Assembly had had time to take action on
this matter, stated that would not Fetract
the statements and that they should stand as
they were written. 1t was then said that charges
would be preferred against me before the Ex-
ecutive Board 1 said that if such charges were
preferred against me, considered myself as
good as expelled, because was the only mem
Der of the Executive Board who had no. taken
a stand before these people, and l resigned
1rom the DOard ratner Inan SIT III 1uuRuenb on
my own case. The Council was about evenly
divided on the Jeanette matter. was per-
fectly willing to be expelled from the organiza-
tion.
A delegate seen later said that he thought
the Jeannette matter would tend to bring
abou: total disruption of the Central
Trades Council.
The new delegates admitted were Thomas
j. Dicus and Julius Pichel, of Typographi-
cal Union No. z, and Frank L. Busha, of
Iron Moulders' Union No. IA.