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Report of Envoy to I. R. B.
The following report of my experiences on the other side is
respectfully submitted to the Executive of the U. B.:
I arrived in England, by the route previously arranged: on
November 27, 1895, and immediately went to ——, where I met
North of England Convention was fixed for December 9, at ——
You are already aware that the convention was to have been held
two months previously, that the men were on the ground, but
that it had to be postponed owing to a police raid said to be caused
by the exposures of the Irish Republic and the constant shadow-
. ing of the men it denounced.
My first object was to attend that Convention, as_an officer of
that division had been brought to Chicago without the knowledge
of the organization and introduced at the private Convention held
there uuder cover of the ‘‘new movement’? as a representative of
‘the I. R. B. in the North of England. I was told, however, that
the Convention for Scotland would be held on November 3oth,
and as I was invited to attend, I went to and‘ was fpresent
during the whole proceedings. ‘There were 33 men present and
' the proceedings were very warm. The same stories; had}.been
circulated among the men in Scotland as in the North of England
by the agents of R—— of London, who is-in correspondence with
the Triangle.
Dr. S—— of London and D , who claimed} to”represent
Ulster in Chicago, had been through Scotland and had tried to
et the men away from theS. C. by the most damnable‘lies.. They
said the S. C, had sold out the organization to Parnell_and {that a
prothinent member in Scotland had sold Jack Daly. They told
the men that the Scotch division of the I. R. B.{was,not,working
with the S. C., but was standing by itself, and that{no transfers
were received in America. One man who had lived a while in
Philadelphia and belonged to a suspended Dfthere, was_in the
meeting and repeated these statements, using vile language and
acting in a most blackguard manner until brought to time by a
threat to throw him out. I was informed that the officers_of two
small circles numbering less than 60 men {between them, were
absent from the meeting because they believed the statements
made to them by D , who had once worked in their neighbor-
hood.
I refuted the statements made by these? two men; gave the
meeting full particulars of men received in Philadelphia by trans-
fer from Scotland, and told them all about D claiming in my
presence that he and his two companions in Chicago represented
the whole I. R. B., and that the S. C. was in with the Alliance.
A representative of the S. C. who was present and the Executive -
of the Scotch division showed the men that the organization in
Scotland was in complete harmony with the S.C. Every man
present was satisfied, except the two. disturbers, but they were
the friends to whom I was directed. They informed me that the