St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-16
THE KNIGHTS oFLAnon.
They will Meet Next Year at Minne-
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RICHMOND, Va, Oct. 15.-When the
general assembly of. the Knights of Labor
went into session this MORNING at 0 o'clock,
the first business to be completed was the
election of the remaining general officers,
two members of the cooperative board.
1t was expected that this would take but
short time, and the consideration of the re-
port on the revision of the constitution,
presented by the committee on law, would
be resumed. This in turn was to be fol-
lowed by reports from other committees,
nearly all of which are ready to report.
Among the first to be presented is the re-
port of the committee on the state OF the
order, of which Ralph Beaumont is chair
man. This report indOrses the report of
the committee on legislation. of which
Beaumont is chairman, and recommends
that the supplementary report of the same
committee in which
A PLAN FOR A CONGRESS
composed of the representatives of the
Knights of Labor be established at Wash
ington, be. sent out to all the local assem-
blies for their approval. Mr.. Beaumont is
of Labor and Others commencing his idea.
The committee on the state of the order
also indOrses the general master workman's
address to the general assembly, and rec
OmmendS the Endorsement of the report of
Charles IL. Litchman, special agent, APP
pointed by the general master workman to
represent the order before the congress
sional committee appointed to investigate
the cause and effect of the Southwestern
railroad strikes. In his report Mr.. Litch-
man says that
HEARINGS WE'RE HELD
at various places in Texas and Arkansas,
and says:
The testimony in behalf of the railroad was
mainly to show what great damage had been
caused by the strike to the railroad property
and commerce: that it had been begun on
frivolous pretext, without real cause, and
that the order of the knights of Labor was
directly responsible TO" all damage done and
all acts of violence committed. With the I'M
limited resources at their command, it was
comparatively easy for the railroad officials
to carefully drill their witnesses in a line of
statements which should fit each other and
this preliminary drilling was painfully appar
ent in the testimony given. Like a lot of
parrots they echoed the statement that the
only cause they had ever heard assigned for
the strike was the discharge of a man named
Hall, of Marsh ALL Tex.
l.. T. Schleiber Of Massachusetts, and
J. W. Broughton, of Raleigh, n. c., were
elected members of the general cooperative
board. David r. Gibson, of Hamilton,
Ont, was elected
CANADIAN SUPPLY AGENT.
His duty is to receive supplies of printed
documents of all kinds in bulk and distrib-
ute them to local assemblies throughout
Canada. This completed the full corps of
general officers and their installation imme-
diately followed Mr.. Powderly addressed
the general assembly, expressed full conf
dence in the men elected, and pledged
himself to the faithful performance of the
duties entrusted to him. He urged upon
the assembly the
IMPORTANCE OF TEMPERANCE,
and asked them to endeavor to impress the
importance of, this subject on the various
local assemblies. He called attention to
the fact that notone of the general officers
elected at this general assembly used in
tOxcating liquors. Each of the general
officers than formally pleged himself to
total abstinence from Intoxicating liquors
during his years term of office. The gen.
eral master workman than installed all the
officers elected. None OF them made
speeches.
THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION
was presented by Delegate Barret. of
Pennsylvania:
Whereas, Reports have been circulated and
Impressions have been created by the press
of the country regarding the position of the
Knights of Labor upon the question of social
equality, and,
Whereas We believe the welfare of the
order in the South requires that this general
assembly take such action as will dispel those
wrong Impressions; therefore,
Resolved, That the organization of the
Knights of Labor promises the civil and po-
litical equality of all men and in the broad
field of labor it recognizes no distinction on
account of color, but it has no purpose to in
terfere with or disrupt the social relations
which may exist between the different races
in various sections of the country.
This resolution was adopted without debate.
Mr.. Powderly, who was asked whether the as
sembly would be able to adjourn this week.
said it was impossible to say. A commit
tee has been appointed to make arrange
ments for securing another hall in case the
assembly cannot continue its session in
Armory hail. if the session should be pro-
longed into next week.
At the afternoon session it was decided
to hold the next annual convention at Min
neaDOliS in October 1887.