The Labor enquirer., 1886-07-24
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
TWO SIDES.
The Document Issued by Dis
trict Assembly "a,
of Chicago,
And the Answer by A. r. Par
sons, From Behind the
Bastile Bars.
TIVE Sides Of Prominent Question
Presented for the Careful Con-
= srusratiOn OF the Public.

wv SINUS Va IOmiucnl QueSti0n
Presented for the Careful Con-
| srusratIOn OF the Public.
las a great deal has been said about
the connection of A. r. Parsons with
the Knights of Labor, and considerable
stress has been laid upon the utterances
OF the Chicago press upon the question,
give below two extracts from the Chi
cago Herald, which are self-explaining.
Some friends doubted that The Eou1RKR
would print the matter |; but that's where
they were mistaken. This paper believes
in fairness, and any man. woman lor
child with a just cause can get hearing
in its columns.-ED. ENQUIRER.
The following was reported in district
assembly No. "a, Knights of Labor, by
the committe on publication and legisla-
ton Friday night, pursuant to resolu-
ton introduced June Is by George
Rodgers, The statement, together with
the accompanying resolution, was
adopted by the district assembly, and
ordered published:
+ "In view of the endeavors being made
by divers persons to place the Knights
of Labor of Chicago in position of SYM
pathy and affiliation with Anarchists
and the followers of the red flag, 1t has
been thought hest by district assembly
No. "a to issue this statement: i
First Of all, the Knights of Labor are
an organization Of peace. The order has
its aims and its objects for the better
ment of the condition of its members
but it is only by peaceful agitation, ar
gument and arbitration that it hopes to
attain them. Nothing else is taught in
the national, district or local assemblies
of the order than peaceful revolution,
accompanied by the justice and equity
of the demands of the order upon that
public opinion which is the basis of our
government. District assembly No. "a
has over 100 assemblies and 1000 mem
bers. Not single charge Of violence
hasIbae sustained against member
dafang the troublous times Of early sum-
mee and not sAstSike has occurred un-,
ldertthe orders of the district, while
scores OF ineipient difficulties between
employers and employees have been sat
isfactorilv arbitrated.
"It ought to be plain to every right
minded citizen that there can be no
sympathy or utilization between such an
organization and body of men who,
while publicly proclaiming themselves
at war with society, advocate what they
call social war; but what is in reality
violence and murder. This class of per-
sons, Haunting themselves as the friends
and representatives of the labor element
of the city. have done the working peo-
pie of Chicago more injury and have
proved greater block in the way of
progress than all other causes combined.
They have been the first to foment
trouble and the first to retire from it.
From well-founded hatred of organ
lied labor they have worked increasingly
to break it down, and they are to-day
its worst enemies. Not only can there
be no sympathy, affiIiation or co-opera-
ton between the knights of Labor aud
Anarchists, but your committee believes
that no Knight who fulflls bis pledges
can hold and publicly proclaim the doc
trines of Anarchism. 1t is believed
that the good of the order will be sub
served if the Anarchists now unfortu-
nately holding memberships in the Or
der were forced outside its ranks, where
they could no longer violate its privi-
leges by advocating riot and murder,
and that che doors of the order should
be hereafter closed against all followers
of the red flag. To make this recon-
mendatIon effective, the following stand
ing resolution Is respectfully presented.
1t does not touch Socialism as q theory
of government, but deals only with Ar
archists and Anarchism :"
ResoIv, d, That n case member of
any local assembly attached to district
assembly No. "a should publicly adyo-
cate or avow his belief in what is COM
monty known as Anarchism, the local
} assembly shall, if the charge is legally
substantiated. e1pel the member 30
charged. If it is proved that any candi.
date for admission into the order is be.
lever in what is known as Anarchism
it shall be permanent bar to his ad.
mission. A violation of this resolution
shall subject the offending assembly tt
the penalties prescribed in the constitu'
tuition Respectfully submitted,
HI. CARR, Chairman Committee.
F. J. VETH, Secretary.
Anarchist Parsons, from his retreat in
the county Jail, is keen observer of the
events transpiring in the world without