Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-11
Phillips Talks to the P. P. A.


BUTLER-Last night the Butler Assembly OF
the Producers Protective Association held
their first meeting in Reiber's Hall. The
meeting was held behind closed DOORS and nc
one was admitted but members of the associa'
tion. The hall was comfortably filled and nc
little interest was manifested In the proceed
Ings. Representatives from Washington,
Pittsburg and other points were present and
participated in the deliberations. Mr.. I. w.
Phillips was president of the meeting, and adj
in an earnest and impressive manner.
THE DISPATCH scout was unable TO
learn everything the veteran producer said,
but was informed from the most reliable source
and squared himself with the independent ele-
ment of the producers. In the course of his
remarks upon the situation he said that his
name had been peddled about the country, and
that reports that ascribed to him as being too
closely allied and identified With the Standard
to take an active part in the independent move
ment Some had even gone so far as to ques-
tion his honesty of purpose and gave out the in
timation that he was a wolf in sleeps clothing,
or in other words, minion of the Standard.
These charges he emphatically denied.
and gave his hearers to understand
he was heart and hand with them,
that would ameliorate their condition. 1t
was the sentiment of the meeting that the as
semblies Of every section in the oil regions
should meet and whatever was done by the in
dependents should be accomplished through
the P. P. A. BY some of the more enthusiastic
who were present it said that last nights meet
ing sounded the keynote of a general uprising
of the P P. A. all along the line, and that it Is
the beginning of one of the most gigantic in
dependent movements in the history of the in
dustry and the most formidable opposition the
Standard has ever encountered. The assembly
will meet again next Thursday night The fol-
lowing preamble and resolutions were adopted:
"WHEREAs, 1t has been alleged that Thomas
w. Phillips. President of the Producers Pro-
tective Association, and of our local assembly,
having sold q portion of his producing interests
in Butler county to the Standard Oil Company,
he would be unwilling, as well as unable, to act
in connection with our association, either as
President or for the welfare of the producers;
and,
"Whereas, We have heard the reply of Mr..
Phillips to the unjust conclusion which is at
tempted to be drawn from his action aforesaid
and whereas, Mr.. Phillips has expressed a
willingness to call special meeting of the
General Association of the Producers Pro
tective Association, as provided by the constitu-
tion, and that he is ready and willing to act in
harmony with and support any measure for the
benefit of the producers that may be adopted
by said association,
Resolved That we hereby express our con-
tinued confidence in him as one Of the leading
producers, and his entire loyalty to US, belIev-
ing him now to be. as he always has been, free
and untrammelled friend of the producers of
oil, one of whom he is as well as friend of
the laDoring classes connected with the indus
try.
Resolved, That being in a position to know,
we further answer said charge and firmly be-
Iieve the allegations to be false. We further
believe that no other man IN the oil region of
Pennsylvania has done or is now doing more to
obtain a fair price for crude oil and good wages
for labor than Mr.. Phillips.
Resolved, That in justice to Mr.. Phillips
and as q notice to whom it may concern, the
foregoing preamble and resolutions be given to
the press of the oil country