Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-05-30
THE CONVENTION.
Work of the Representative Knights
at Cleveland.
The Various Committees Full Of
Business.
The Trades Unions viii Not Get An
They Ask.

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session Of the General Assembly OF tho
Knights of Labor this morning Was devoted
to the discussion o! the motion made -.
terdAy to refer the report Of the Executive
Board on tie return OF the order to trades
unions to the Committee on the State Of
the Order. Speeches weIe made BY . mum.
Der Of leading members, and from their
tenor it is certain the trades unionisis will
not get all they ask. 1t seems more than
probable the sff.ir will remain unsettled.
Anopg the few new delep stes to The
Knights OF Labor General Assembly to a.
rive in this city to-day vas Frank N. Fosg,
who was elected to represent sixteen as
semblies, from Lansing, Mich, but whose
district has already increased TO Thirty a..
semblies.
THE LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE
Of the General Assembly has been one OF
the hardest working com mmittees appointed,
the msmbers having devoted their even
ings to the duty before them. The com
mittec will report on Monday morning and
will propose important legislation in rail.
roads, public lands, education, alien, labor
and mo..ey. The four hours session Of the
General Assembly Of the knights Of Labor
this morning WAS passed in the discussion
ola motion made Friday to refer the 70.
port Of the Executive Board on relations
Of the order. Speeches were made BY q
number Of leading members. and from tho
tenor it is certain that the trades unions
WILL. NOT GEr ALL rnIY ASK.
i, is more than probable that the affair
will remain unsettled. After shon die.
cussiou this afternoon the whole matter
was recon mitted TO the committee and
few moments later Mrs Sarah NJ. Perkins,
OF this city. appeared a, the door Of the
ante room to the convention hall and sent
note to Mr. Powderly saying that she
had been delegated by the Ohio WomAns
Suffrage Association to present an address
to the General Assembly A recess Was
taken to admit the lady and Mrs Perkins
was escorted to the platform aud introduced
to the convention.
The Committee on Laws second ptopo.
si,ion was the recommendation that where
practicable unattached local assemblies
should become part OF the district Assem-
plies and transact business with the Gen
eral Assembly through them. After .
short discussion the proposition was adopt
ed.
IMPRISONED KNIGHTS.
The State Secretary read q letter from
Galveston, Texas. relating 10 the hard.
ships Of strikers who are confined in tho
Jail of ,ba, city for Constructive con-
tempt" and asking the General Assembly
10 do something to obtain for them psivi-
lsges given persons similarly charged In =.
other courts The following resolution
was presented aud unanimously adopted
Whereas. the jsils At Galveston. Dallas,
and elsewhere 10 Texas, are filled with
brother Knights, suffering for Contempt
Ct Court, rs issued by Judge Csdse; and
be it Resolved by this General Assembly
that we petition Grover Cleveland. Presi.
dent Of the United States, TO exercise elem
ency in their behalf, NJ the United
States Judges have released sll Imprisoned
strikers on the Southwest system and thds
he the means Of causing better feelings be-
tween employers and employees.
A committee Vas appointed 10 arAt
suitable documents TO be foruardsd 10 the
President asking him 10 exercise clemsn-
cy with the prisoners.
A Compromiss.
ST. LoUIs, Mo. May 29.-Ths 81. Louis
Sugar Refining Company employing FIVE
hundred men, will resume operations next
Monday With q fall force Of men. The
works we're closed down three weeks ago,
on account Of the eigh, hour agitation. a
compromise has been effected in the mean,
time with the employees. who will return to
work.
A Voluntary Advance.
PrrTsBuRG. May 29-The Black Dis.
mond Steel Company has voluntarily id.
vanced the wages OF oil Of their employees
ten per cent. The increase amounts 10
several thousand dollars . month 10 the
firm.
Martin Irons Furniture Levied On.
ST LoUIs, Mo, May 20 "A special from
sedalia, Mo, says: Deputy Constable
William Wsllsco today levied upon . Dor
ton Of Martin Irons household goods, 10
satisfy Q debt Of 81 due Patrick O'Copper
for several months past for house rent
Irons stepdaugbtsr. . young lady Of IG
years, claimed that the furniture hsd been
disposed Of to . nsiehbos. bot the offioer
took charge oft, nevertheless, snd will
dispose OF ii 10 satisfy the dsot.