Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-08-15
LABOR ORDERS AT ODDS.
New York knights and Trades
Unions Fall Gut.

Unions Fall Gut.
A New York special to the Baltimore
American says that the present dissen-
sions among the laboring men OF this city
are fraught with a gread deal of import
snce to the Knights of Labor throughout
the country. The Knights here are no"
virtually engaged in death strugRie
with the trades unions, which can only
! be terminated when one or the other shall
! have received a blow which VIII
destroy its prestige for many years,
| II not tor all time. Although tne
knights at the meeting OF the Central
Labor Union last Sunday succeeded 10
capturing that organization, ;hey nave
since lost all the advantage then gained,
through their inability to supply cigar
makers to fill the places held by Progress
i've Union men. The manufacturers were
induced to give the knights control OF
their shops upon the understanding tnat
the Knights would see that the necessary
number of men were supplied to Nil all tne
benches. When the knights MADE tnls
gain they immediately ordered all men
out OF the shops who wePelnot knights OF
Labor. The intention was to compel the
memb ers OF the Progressive Cigarrnakess'
Union to join the Knights, and THIS Inc
latter refused to do, prelerrIng TO stop
WORK. The Knights cannot supply the
skilled labor necessary to NIL the places
of these men, and it IS, therefore, appar-
ent to-day that the manufacturers are De-
ginning to weaken in their allegiance 10
the Knights. The cigarmakers are conn
dent, and it really seems that the knights
will be signally defeated.
The trades unions were always strong
in New York and the efforts of District AS
/ sembly No. 40 to stamp them out Will un-
dOubtedly prove disastrous, not only TO the
Knights, but to the whole body OF LABOR
ing men. These dissensiOns will doubt
less spring out afresh after the coming
convention of the Knights at Richmond,
when many people think the home club
will gain control OF the national organl-
cation.
The representatives of the home CLUB in
this city control District Assembly NO,
40, and that they are bent upon capturing
the national body is shown by the despe-
rate measures which they have adopted
in appointing delegates to Richmond. At
the last general convention, 1t will be re-
membered, the local assemblies OF Brook
lyn and the county of Kings were given
charter and separate district assem-
bly,. District No. 40, OF this city, OPP
posed this secession from their
ranks, but were overcome. The Brook
Ign men have always been opposed to the
policy OF No. 40, but being heretofore out
fObeu, JDSy ndu 10 buDHlJ' OluC6 Tue
General Assembly adjourned the Brook
Ign men have vainly striven to get from
the General Executive Committee the
charters granted them by the general
convention. 1t is we'll known that the
general committee is controlled by the
home club, and the Brooklyn men have
been put off from time to time, until now
it has just dawned on them
that they are not to be given the
nnar ~ inf hn
vention at Richmond. The object OF this
direct failure of the general committee to
obey the orders of the last convention is
laid bare by the recent action of District
No. 40, which has elected delegates to
RichmOnd-the whole number to which
they were entitled before the division Of
Brooklyn and Kings county into a sepa-
rate body. The Brooklyn knights say
that every one of these sixty delegates
are home club men, and that they had
no voice in their selection.
The local assemblies OF Brooklyn and
Kings have elected the quota of delegates
to Richmond to which they are entitled
as a separate district, and will contest
the right of District No. 40 to send it's old
members to the convention. When the
contesting delegation appears before the
convention. it Will present a paper show
ing how the Brooklyn men have been re-
fused the charter which the last general
convention ordered the executive commit
tee to give them.
The fact that Mr.. Powderly has silently
consented to the arbitrary disregard of
the Brooklyn mems rights has lost MIN a
great deal of popularity among the me n
whom his executive committee has
wronged. When the last convention adj
journed, it was charged that Mr.. Pow
derby had made terms with the home
club, in order to prevent being ousted
from office, but it was not credited by tn g
Knights. Now the Brooklyn faction are
sure that some such compact was made,
as they can explain it on no other grounds
than MIR. Powderly's failure to compel
the executive committee to carry out the
the orders Of the national convention.
1t is clear that the coming convention
of the knights will be stormy one, for
not only will there be this "kick" against
the home club, but there will also be a
decided objection to the tyrannical as
sault made upon the Cigarmakers' Union
by District No. 40. The trades union ele-
ment will be largely represented at Rich
mond from the principal cities outside of
New York, and a strong effort will be
made to secure legislation whicl will
prevent New York's District Assembly,
or any other assembly, from warning on
the unions.
New York was never more excited over
labor questions than at present. The
knights have decided to go into politics,
but they are not q unit in the matters,
and the dissensions which will ensue will
doubtless render abortive all'their efforts
to elect Mayor of New York. MIR. Henry
George seems to be the coming candidate,
but there is a strong feeling in favor of
Roswell p. Flower. Mr.. Flower is a
kicker in the Democratic ranks, and he is
known to have big bar'l. 1T he should
consent TO run he would of course put out
his money literally, and the laboring men
are well aware Of all the importance
VIII III attaches to this particular qualif-
ca On in a candidate.
Drowned and Her Lover Mad.
NEW HAVEN. CONN, Aug. L. Nelly