The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-05-19
TIE MASTER NoRK,,AN.S ADDRESS.

TIE MASTER N0EKNiNS ADDRESS.
Want of Discipline in the Order---A Plan
tor the Future Government of the
| knights to be Submitted to the General
assembly.
The Chicago Daily News publishes
the following secret circular, which,
it says, has been received BY the
knights of Labor of Chicago, and Will
! be read in the various assemblies
during the coming week. The circular
is from Grand Master Workman Pow
derby, and is q very long one. Ii com
plains Of the hundreds of useless letters
(four hundred dav) and committees
with which he is bored by the order,
and states that he must have time 10
| mature plans for the benefit Of the
Order aud must not be interrupted,
and that he will not receive letters Or
committees, er 60 anywhere from this
:inie until the meeting of the General
Assembly, which is ordered for May
25, al Cleveland, Ohio. The only part
of the circular of general interest is as
follows:
s:Nearly four thousand assemblies
have pledged themselves to act on the
advice contained in the circular of the
Stti ultimo. feel that it only re
quires the coming to the front OF real
men of our Order 10 set us right
before the world. We have been
losing ground so far IS public opinion
is concerned for some time. One OF
the causes is that we have allowed
'hings to be done under the name Of
the Knights OF Labor for which the
organization was IN no way respon
>ibic. ask of our members TO keep
Jealous eve Oh the ooiugs of labor meh
who never labor, and when they charge
anything !othe Order in your locality
set The seal of vour condemnation upon
it at once by denying it. If paper
criticises the knights of Labor or its
officers, do not boycott 1t, and II you
have any such boycot,s on remove
them.
"a journal not long since made some
uncomplimentarv ailusions TO the Cen
eral Master Workman of the Knig hts
Of Labor, and at the next meeting Of
the nearest assembly motion was
cast TO boycott the paper-not that
alone, hut every person who adver
tised il the columns Of the paper.
wrote to the assembly asking that they
remove the boycott, and it was dOue.
We must bear in MUD that the Cen
erui Master Workman is only mau,
and is not above criticism. We de-
mand for ourselves the rlghts Of free
speech. We cannot consistently deny
il to others. We must tolerate fair, !
open criticism. If a reply is neces.
Sary make it in a gentlelnanlv, digni- !
fed manner. If we are criticised or
abused by blackguard sheet, treat it
as you would the backguard himself
in silence That our aims and objects
arc good is no .eason why our men,
bers should ue regarded as being OF
superior build or materlai. We are
no more the salt of the earth than
of unknown toi.erS who do
the work OF the yorld. In our deal
ings with laborerS and capitalists ne
must deal justly and fairly by them; il
we would have it equally done to us we
must in turn Jo it equally to others.
This is the aim of the knights of Labor
and must not be lost sight Of in the
future.
"We have had ooulo trouble from
drinking members and from men who
talk about buying guns and dynamite.
If the men who possess money enough
to buy guns and dynamite would III
vest it in the purchase of some well
selected work onlabor, they wolld put
the money to good use. They will
nevc.' need guns or dynamite in this
country. 1t is i..y op!E:cn that the
man who does not study the politics Of
tie nation and the wants OF the people
wonId make but little use Of rifle.
The Dlan who cannot vote intelligentlE,
and who will not waici. TIE ;nan h"
votes for after he is elected, cannot be
depended on to use either gun or
dynamite Il the head and brain OF
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