Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-01-30
THE FUR WILL FLY.
Ninety-FIye Thousand Texans, Voters
All, IN Solid Phalaux, Listed
for the War,
Grand Master Workman Powdcrly and
the Grand Executive Committee
iudorse the boycott.
~ interview witt, an Executive Can,mlt
tceman Merchants osder Thor
Goods hy o,hcr rincs.
special TO tho C;nsottc
A srtcN INTERVIEW,

special 10 tho Gnsottc
srtcN INTERVIEW,
iNRis Tx, Jan 70 The order 10
boycott The Mallory line Of stoamships AZ
Galveston, ISSUED by The executive board
81 The Kuights Of labor, has rcachod nero.
| II takcs effect simultaneously wherever
an assembly Of knights OF Labor Is 10
be found, aud by an understanding with
the Farmers alliance that organization
VIII also fall IN HE aud take part In Is.
ono OF the executive hoard,.Mr NJ. W.
1 Connolly, resiucs hero, and being appealed
70 by TnE GAZETTE reporter for luiOrma,
ton concerning this trouble said
! "Thls Mallory line trouOl0 n not now
things II is q grievance which the pr0soni
executive board Inherited from the old
board. The public knows about the first
| trouble when a strike was declared laat
! fall II Is the same old sore which has
never healed and never will until settles
mcnt agreeable TO bot aldcs is reached. y
''What ~ the Immediate causo OF the
I present boycottYn
4 'Sou mean why was the orderssuedsn
4 "Yos''
! at was issued because tho agent of the
| Mallory line had broken faith with us hs
openly violating a SOLEMN contract witch
was agreed upon by tho executive board
aud committee Of citlzens authorized 80
act for tho Mallory line, He seems 10
I think that be can defeat the object OF this
ngreement by pleading The baby net and
1 taking refuge behind his own ntprpron.
I ton Of lts provisions, but, aR You are
/ aware, the knights OF labor arc u pun
] q
/ they have no love for qulbhles aud tuchnl.
calliics and will not tolerate them whcn
possblep
"what part OF the agreement is Il thag
I cnugps the misunderstanding
\ "That part which uhllgalts the Alnllorv
4 limo TO employ l<Oghts Of Labor without
I discrimination whrn additional force A
\ needed, hosldes what men were employed
that day. Now, hero is the rob- capt
I Sawyer CLAIMS that the words 'on tho
I rolls today means all the seas labor en-
.snlpycd ntnpy ume slncc the inc0nlicn ~
( tho strike, We deny this What We
| meant and understood was Just what wo
/ subscribed to, aud the rolls 0i that day
embraced only iorty.two NAMES. In this
I we are bOrue out BY the fact that the rolls
| are only fur labor done by the hour. No
one IL employed from day 20 day, and II
Capt, Sawyer wishes TO stretch the thing
! 20 cover The names OF every man who has
over worked for him In the pnst, he
should Include the knights Of Labor, who
I are also on his books This he does not
! propose TO d., He wants to interpret
/ the agreement 10 suit himself
aud then Violate that part which
oblIgates him 70 give the knights an
equal showing with other luborcrH. 10
| plain men, who are not skilled IN the art
VI expressing words TO conceal their
\ thoughts, this qnlbbling Is distastniui,
\ You see the very words themselves are
! ldlomatlc aud peculiar to the wharf bush
ness, aud ~ understand them one must
understand the methods OF this business
I 10 q certain extent what was meant was
Just what was said, that when an Hddi-
4 tion 90 the forty O III men employed that
1 day WAS necessary, they should be soloct-
J ed from the knights without diWrlminn.
! Knightsn
! elias any other effort boon nude
I recently TO adjust this matter ancably2o
4 "Yes, air, when the district assembly
/ vas Ia session IN Galveston this mouth q
4 committee waited on Capt sawyer or hls7
/ representatives and endeagOfcd 10 arrive
at an nmlcablo solution. They wef1
I treated ineonedHratNly contemporaries,
/ | may say and were sont back 20 tho as
/ sembly with empty HANGS ! believe,
among other thugs, they Woro told ihai
\ knights uf Labor would bl employed
when the other laborors were al dead OF
| words 60 thal effect OF course. with tic
aaunllrt thrown down % ", wr lad no
| other recourse bat 10 take It un or ne
knowledgo ourselves defeated, and this
we are not prepared 20 do"
"Was the bOycOtt Issued while Tie dis
/ trict assembly waa IN sesslonfN
1 "Noj but few minutes after Il nd.
/ jOnfnpd, Ii did not take as long 90 dla.
posi- oi the Natter
! "Where has the order been all this time
aud why did IL not 70 into eject
I souncryh
For prudential reasons We hage nu
enormous organization IN tho State and
I its movements must bo directed ln-
diligently and regularly, fan cannot OK
poet 10 secure q naii'r support unless yoii
convince him Of tne justice Of your cause,
Az Tins takes time aud work
"Why was not q strike ordered instead
OF buycOtty'
nfor the renson TINT wo had noiblng 10
strike on oar men were driven out and
their places liilcd bY n0h-unlon labor, II
wu stuck u would DO Just what the Mai
( Tory line desires We don't want 10
strike, which means 70 qult work wc
are hunting Job
n1n,n this boycott, AZ ! understand ~,
is leycled against the Mallory lluo oniYfH
"That u tue intention. OF course we
may nnd II necessary 10 eXt end II Va order
10 MAKE II effective. Did sou over con
slider what u terrible Weapon CHS boycott
! II Ia the hands oi Kay $4,000 people IN
rexaa2 Why, air, II can ruin my town,
bankrupt any railroad VI other enterprise
IN the state. u IL 30 inrldI0ns, 80 far.
Reaching and relentless that, order II
ralred ~ you Will, Il takes time % repair
the damages don't IN even one day OF ~
nxstoDCe. just think Of itl The Gal.
weston merchants cannot pattonllc that
line on the interior merchants VIII mott