The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-28
Delegates Representing 10000 Men
Will withdraw III the New Yorker
BE Not suppressed.
BOLT IS PROBABLE TODAY
BUCHANAN AND DONNELLY THE CAN
DEBATES FOR PRESIDENT.
IL the Latter Is Elected Many Dele.
gates VIII Quit the Convention
at Kansas City.

KANSAS CITY, Sept. GETTYSBURG,
Cleveland. Buffalo and Wheeling delegates.
representing 10000 men, decided at meet
ing here tonight to withdraw from the In
ternational Association of Structural Iron
and Bridge Workers in the event of the
continued dominance of Samuel j. Parks,
the New York walking delegate, in the an
nual convention now holding. Michael
Faherty, chairman of the Pittsburg delega-
ton. will direct the fight against Parks on
the floor of the convention. The injection
of Parks and his influence has so shaped
affairs that the New York walking delegate
is an issue as directly opposed to the
Buchanan regime and it has been decided to
fight it out on that line by re-electing
Buchanan. AT caucus of Buchanan men
tonight it was figured that the president
could count on forty-three votes.
III. f. Donnelly, of Albany, is to be the
Parks candidate for the presidency. Those
opposed to him assert that his election will
mean a reign of bossism by Sam Parks and
that they will withdraw from the interna-
tional body if it comes about. Donnelly
tonight makes the positive claim that he
will be 81 s,ted, asserting that he has fifty
five votes out OF 102 pledged to him.
y caucus, attended by Parks and his fol-
lowers, Is in session tonight and IL Is said
that n plan to expedite the business of the
convention to an early adjournment is
under consideration. Parks and his follow
ers profess to believe that President
Buchanan and his supporters intend TO at
tempt the disruption of the present organ
ization, that they may reorganize the con-
vention before new set of officers is elect
ed Parks wants TO finish the business OF
the convention. including the election of Of
| fcers, before Buchanan can accomplish the
disruption.
The refusal of the convention to grant a
charter 10 the new union known as the
New York Housesmiths' Union" which
| sent four delegates to this convention, Del
| egate Parks says is a closed incident.
| The four delegates, in a statement issued
| TO the convention, say I'm refusing d
] charter to the New York Housesmiths
Union you have virtually Endorsed all that
| Is bad and rotten In trade unionism. BY
your action you have lost to your body the
greatest city In the United States. Al
present refuse to recognize union which
| will in the end be the dominant power in the
| iron trades in New York"
| The statement attacks Samuel Parks and
| continuing says: Keep that man i'm and
| within tive months there will be nothing
left of No. q and the international union
will be down and out as far as New York
| Is concerned. Now we will say that any
organization that relies upon brute force
l to maintain its supremacy in the end vii
| end in disorder and disruption
| Delegate Parks said tonight: IT an
| quoted in New York as saying that l an
| going to raise all kinds of trouble upon my
| return there. Present conditions do not ex
! actly call for strikes. / do not intend Il
| call any strike among the structural irol
| workers engaged on buildings in New
York. But IL there is not change in tn,
| conditions at the East river bridges / shall
| start something there in about two weeks.
President Buchanan said this afternoon
81 know Of no reason why there should b.
| any further trouble in the convention
| There Will be no split.