Arizona silver belt., 1886-11-20
rHE ADVANCE OF LABOR

There is no organization more tract able in the known world than that of the Knights of Labor. It has but single will and, when a proposition has been determined upon, moves to execute 1t with az much certainty as an army by direction of its general, and this is nowhere better exemplihed than the obedience of the Chicago Knights to the notification by Grand Master Workman Powdcrly, that "the strike was off as against the packing houses, Notwithstanding the fact that the strikers had failed to gam the desired concession from the packing house companies, and undoubtedly would have preferred continuing the strike, yet they Obeyed the order of their leader with an alacrity that IS wonderful, when it IS considered how discordant and hostile to all opposition bodles of strikers usually are.
 The growth of the Knights of Labor in the few brief years since their or ganization, to membership of almost million and quarter, and the fact that this immense body of undisGi- plined men, representing So many in congruous elements, should submit to the dictatorship of one man, is proof of the rapid advance that the laboring class in this country IS making towards intelligence and self improvement. The history of this gigantic move ment furnishes abundant material for the political economists to study and 1 digest, and how this irresistible force can be directed and controlled so that it may lawfully secure the alleviation of wrongs of labor, which thus far have seemed irramediable, without crippling the vast and growing indus trial interests of the United States, is one of the momentous problems of the ! day. While reforms in the treatment of labor in this country may be urgent 1 (and their consummation will be at- tained if jusD yet ii is an undeniable fact that the condition of the working man in the United States is far in ad. vance of that of his brother toiler in any other part of the habitable globe he receives better remuneration for his work, io treated more humanely, has more time to give to self educa, ton, and the opportunity to rise in the social scale to a height limited on ly by his intelligence and perseyer. ance.
 And this latter fact suggest the thought that in this country there l are no barriers between classes as ir l Europe. Tie laborer of to-day may be the capitalist of tomorrow and vice versa. It is erronious to argue that the two interests are inimical. They are inseperable and only by reeogni ton of each others rights and the arbi tration of grievances can either pros. DOT. The boycott must ga, and the strike be resorted to only when all at tempts at arbitration fail. This is thu 1 yiaw taken by the leading minds ii the order, and their general accep tancc must in time prevail
 The inyiduous growth of socialism and anarchism must be checked at al hazards, and their teuets which hayr gained lodgment within tue orde \ must be weeded out, elso the grount already gained through organizatioi 1 will be irretueyably lost.
 That tke Knights of Labor have at tained to snch proportions and powe < is due in a great measure to the wis and conservative councils of Gran, Master Workman Powderly, and fo | the welfare of the country at large, q 1 well as for the organization which D controls, it $ ferVsntly to be hope that he may continue igs ruling spirit
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