Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-12-27
DISSATISFIED KNIGHTN.
Talk Of q New Convention % Try 90
Unseat POwderly.
HIS HOME CLUB ALLIES SAY THAT THAT rs A JOB TIA
CAN'T BE DoNE-wHAT PowpKRLY SAYS


The New York sun OF Saturday says: There is
strong probability that special session OF the
general executive board OF the knights OF Labor
VIII be called to meet at Chicago MIR. Powderly's
action in ordering district assembly "a, OF which
Mrs George Rodgers is master workman, 10 return
the money collected for the condemned anarchists
was the last straw on the camels back, so Knights
OF Labor I'm this city say. The carpenters local
assembly, Knights OF Labor, in Chicago, adopted
resolutions calling on all district assemblies to
demand an immediate special session OF the gen.
eral assembly. The purpose is stated TO be 20
AFFORD an opportunity TO prefer charges against
General Master Workman Powderly for overstep-
MS authority. For special convention one dis
t1ct assembly each IRON five states must sign the
call The Chicago district assembly, IL is said, is
backed up by assemblies in Michigan, Colorado,
Kansas and Missouri but il another signer should
chance TO be required national district assembly
l26 OF carpet workers, OF which John Morrison is
master workman, will sign. Knight OF Labor
said yesterday:
''An these amendments to the constitution
adopted at the Richmond convention and now in
operation are unlawful. No one but member OF
the Home club would have had the assurance 10
make himself more powerful than the constitu-
ton. The constitution I'm operation up 10 the
Richmond convention provided that the general
master workman should receive s., 500 year and
be In office one year. IL called tor an executive
board OF i've. Now the board is seven. The mas
ter OF the Home club Thomas h. Mcguire, is the
particular counsellor OF the general master work.
man: levy of 100000 has been made upon the
Knights all over the country. The constitution
distinctly says that no assessment can be made
without the consent OF the assessed. Neither the
assessment nor any OF the changes have been
voted upon by any local assembly, changes ia
the constitution must be. They were put into
effect the minute they passed the convention. Not
a large number or Knights are i'm sympathy with
the anarchists, but they do believe in fair play.
Ihey DO want TO say to whom they shall give the
money they earn"
A member of District Assembly 40 said after the
above was repeated to him: "A number OF sore
headS, who are not satisfied with Pow1erly, are
Raising hubbub to get the things done at the
Richmond convention recOnSidered We want NO
new convention. The local assemblies have con-
Sented TO accept all the amendments OF the con-
levied by assessment at the general assembly. IL
Is all right In theory TO talk about constitution,
put Where would an organization as big as ours
land II 1t waited for the constitution. We do the
pest we can with the means at hand. IL Is all
nonsense TO talk OF impeachlng Powderly for join
Ing the Home club, with him in the government OF
the Knights OF Labor. Everybody was saying that
the Home club would be overthrown at Richmond,
but IL was not. II came out pretty near the head.
That shows that the Home club was I'm the ad-
vance OF all other Knights OF Labor. Should there
be convention at Chicago We have no doubt that
PoWderlys actions will be sustained"
The Knight of Labor, the official organ OF d. A.
"a of Chicago, has printed this:
Let IL be understood by all the world that the
Knights OF Labor have no affliation. association,
sympathy, or respect for the band OF cowarlly
murderers, cut-throats and robbers known as an
archiStS, who sneak through the country like mid
aootSSilio. the paSSlDnS lEflOr-
ant foreigners unfuriing The red flag OF anarchy,
causing riot and bloodshed. Parsons, Spies Field
ing, Most, and all their followers synpathizers
alders, ana abbettors should be sumlnaIily dealt
with. They are entitled TO no more consideration
than wild beasts. The leaders are towards and
their followers fools. Knights OF Labor, boycott
them. IL one OF the gang ol Scoundrels should by
any mistake get access To our organization eXpel
him at once. Brand them as Outlawed monsters.
DO not even permit yourself TO hold conversation
with one OF them. Treat them as they deserve TO
be treated, as human monstrosities, not entitled
TO the sympathy or consideration OF any person in
We are sure we voice the sentiment OF the entire
organization when we say we hope that Parsons,
Spies Most, Fielding and the whole gang OF out
laws Will be biotted from the face OF the earth.
PHILADELPHIA KICK.
The IOcsin, the organ OF the workingmen OF
Philadelphia, says editOrially: s'From the number
OF secret circulars published by the head of the
noble order, IL Is to be inferred that the disffn-
guiShed gentleman Is trying to make it appear. at
$1,000 year. Many poor Knight OF Labor IL
not on the verge OF starvation is certainly not
together during this Christmas season, while the
heads OF the order are reveling i'm all the uxurfes
their p1ncely salaries afford. The officials GER
tainly have bettered their condition. Pile on the
assessments"
WHAT POwDERLY SAYS.
The New York Herald OF yesterday publishes an
interview with Powderly and reports him as say.
ing: "There may be a few dissatisfied people In
Chicago. It would be unreasonable to expect that
could please every body. There are a few men in
Chicago who, up to last spring, had no use for the
Knights OF Labor. They did everything in their
power to discourage the patient persevering
workers OF the order, and when the boom began
that brought us so many members throughout the
country Chicago was not behind in furnishing her
who claimed to be leaders OF thought and radical
sentiment, seeing the rapid Increase or member
ship, Jumped In 10 lead that which they could not
throttle Mr.. POwderly did not regard the infIu-
ence OF these men as being OF particular moment
and smiled as he produced large bundle OF CORE
spondence, marked Chicago" and said: ''See Tor
yOlrSeiI. have the Endorsement OF nine-tentbs
OF the order In Chicago, and those who oppose me
are the l0udeSt In their proteStatiOnS OF friend
Knights OF Labor were handed over TO the men
who profess to be leading the revolt against me
nine hundred and nine out OF every thousand in
the organization would desert IL rather than fol.
low such leadership"
CAUSES OF OPPOSITION CLEARED AWAY.
81 know that certain men connected with the |
anarchist movement in Chicago are endeavOriny
to create feeling against me because or the ORDER
ing OF the strike on the 10th OF last month and
they claim that overstepped my authority They
also claim that Messrs Barry and Carlton are on.
posing Inc for the action took. In this they are
for neither OF the gentlemen named has
give out such an impression IL is true that Barry
and Carlton were both in Chicago when the order |
to declare tine strike OF was sent from Philadel-
phia Before ordering that strike off had the |
opinions OF four other members of the executive |
board OF the Knights OF Labor in addition 10 NV |
own views These were MeSSrS. Hayes Bailey
Mcguire and Aylesworth. They were Unanimous
In voting TO put an end TO the strike, and gave as
their reasons that the order had not decided ft
proper at that time to strike for EIGHT hour.
They also held that ii was act OF injustice for
people who were receiving good wages 20 strike for
the hours OF labor at a certain point.
while men engaged In the same line OF business
throughout the country were competing with
them on the ten-hOur system.
DOES NOT CARE FOR HOT HEADS
'Isthe revolt against your leadership as deep as
the dispatches indicator" asked the Herald cor
respondent.
"There is no revolt against me in Chicago" said
Mr. POwderly. ''The general assembly, which sent
Mr. Barry to Chicago, unanimously voted 10 ADOPT
the decision OF the chairman, that only the good
Offices OF the Knights OF Labor We're rendered
toward settling the trouble but that i'm the event
,f failure the order should not be called on for
financial assistance. don't care for any revolt
hat q few hotheads may 1naugurate. The order !
Will stand by me and the executive board is with
ne to a man In defending the Organization from
assaults OF its enemies, within and without"
AStruggle with q Mad Dog.
SHEPHERD ATTACKED AND FRIGHTFUILY BITTEN ON
HIS HAND AND WRIST.
The Hon. John z Russell Congressman-elect in |
he worcester, Mass, district, says that
last while Maurice Webb his
shepherd, was at work In his barn In Lefces- l.
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