The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-10-08

man pnwdefIy, Ia hia adde's, aaid Ne
0ad prepared the dfsn ~ . bal
~ bs presented io COnafots, which
will, N adopted, prohlhli the employ
nent ~ Inmates Of State NJ onnntf
Prisons w government wsff OF nsF
klna. He Recommended that Congress
should DO asked IN inoorp1fsie
tha grade aud labor association
In tho DiaiiiO. 81 Columbia
aud tha territories OF the United
States, also Ia am0nd trio bill passed
last session, b prohisii the employ
monl OF foreigs Labor Of contract =
Some pOstmastors who eui.
pl0yod labor Intercepted md
opsnsd communications bolwess
tho officers az sha Assembly, The
remedy wIn 70 prohibit tue smplorera
from acting as postmaster. Tho work.
ing people of tho State should demand
Of Congress tho passage OF an
creating Postal Savings bauka. The
passage OF MIR. Oates bin inlroduoedGs
tha last session OF Con-
gress prohibiting silans nom hu,d.
Tag large tracts of lands should
ba insiHtad on, ana tha assembly
should 20 farther Ia demanding that
all lands noH hold for sDcculaiiye
purposes be restored 20 the public
domain. He disc0uutenaneed the
proposition % naugurate " atriko
for the establishment Of the short hosr
plan on May /. 1886. He believed an
snnual convention Hhould bs held In
ovsry State, Territory and province 20
bo composed OF representatives from
all labor orders within tho boundaries
az tho stats, Territory or province 20
discuss all matters pertaining 20 the
labor interest. a board of Industry
should be also organised In oyary mu
niolpglity, which shouli keep watch
over tho destinies Of vorkGrn. Tho
workiugnen OF tho continont OF North
Amerlcs, BIO said, must take aolcp
action locking 20 prevention
OF Immigration during tho periods 81
depression. This country can no
longer bo called tho work shop NJ the
poor. Every step 20 make 10 the poor
house Of the world should he
resisted. DO then touched on hOycot.
ting, aud said that whom the end
sought for had beon accomplished IL
should be discontinued. Drunkenness
which was prevalent during strikos
should BIO punished bv expulsion, Ho
pointed out tho weak spots in coop
Grafton and mutual benp-
fit organizations. do suggested
a similar cooperative movoment TO
the one located In Covington, Kon-
lucky, be iusugurated IN every locality
where there Ia an assembly. This
plan, he said, binds tho wCrstpgmon
and his employer together
In movement which their interests
are identical. Tho sssist.uos OF
funss should bs abolished aud
another plan substituted. Workins man
had to come IN look on IL nsn fund TO
support strikers. This was not
time. No strike should be
ordered without the sanction
of the general executive board, than
only after every stbsr had failed.
The executive board should set as Il
national boxrd OF ooncilistisn and ar
bitrs.ion. He thought it time
for tho Knights of Labor
to be more sarafsl about
the strikes Of otasr
orders. 1t had brought odium on
itAeH in tho past and in some instances
for its gsDefosity. Before teking
sides hereafter, it should be fully con-
WINGED that there was right on the side
OF the laborer. lie hoped the ststemen1
that tho Brotherhood or Engineers WIS
opposed to the knights of Labor, was
not true. He discouraged the forml-
ton OF any more national trade assem-
blles AZ q stop backward.