Morning journal and courier., 1886-03-27
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. POWDERLY CALLS A HALT Strikes and Boycotts Must
 Cease. NO CHANGE AT ST. LOUIS. The Edmunds Resolutions
 Go Through. MIR. MANNING'S CASE CRITICAL. Gladstone Offers Home
 Rule for Ireland.
MIR. hfANNING'S CASE CRITICAL.
Gladstone Offers Home
 Rule for Ireland.

1
 Rule for Ireland. POWDERLY PUTS HIS FOOT DOWN. , These Useless Strikes and Boycotts 1 Must Re Stopped-If Not Another
 Man Must Re Found To Take His
 Place as Chief of the Knights.
 ST. LOUIS, March 26.-General Master
 Workman Powderly has issued secret cir
 cular to the Knights of Labor of America,
 which has just been made public. He in-
 structs the secretary of each assembly to call
 meeting and read before it the sentimen ts
 which follow. The address opens with an
 order to the assembly to cease initiating new
 members until the relations with capital
 shall become less strained than at the pres
 ent time, and continues:
 sTo attempt to win concessions or gains with our
 present raw undisciplined membership would be | like hurling an unorganized mob against well
 assemblies to bring in members pick up their
 quarrels as soon as organized, and have them ex, I the order up for noble purpose.
 After dwelling at some length upon the
 individuality of taking in new members at
 present the address continues:
 I've must not fritter away strength and miss
 the opportunity of present success in the struggle
 the cardinal principles of the order we must add
 another-patence. You have had patience for | upon the SC ne you would still be waiting. Your
 scales of prices must stand as they are for the pres
 ent if you cannot raise them by any other process | than strike. You must submit to injustice at the l er Bide well your time. Find out how much you
 are justly entitled to and the tribunal of arbitration | will settle the rest.'
 Mir. Powderly then cautions the assemblies
 against receiving into their ranks employers,
 and warns the Knights of Labor that the pol l itician is planning night and day how to 1 catch Knights of Labor for the advantages of
 himself and party, and adds that to use the
 name of the order in political contest is l criminal, and must not occur again. Refer ring to the eight-hour movement, the circu- 1 lar says:
 l Assemblies of the Knights of Labor must not
 be nor ehG aa tey sh @ headquarters, for such an order was not and will
 States and Canada. order has possibly 100000 | Can we mould the sentiments of the millions in nonsense to think of it."
 | After speaking of the qualities which the l officers of assemblies should possess, and ex- pecting the Knights to elect honest men of even temperament, Mir. Powderly continues:
 Whs e is easd me e in ro5e
 and we struck for you know our motto is an injury
 is the concern of al but it is not wise to njure all for the sake of one It would have been far better | matter bringing it before every known tribunal, than to have struck.
 l Speaking of the relations between the church and the Knights of Labor, MT. Pow derly says:
 ed action T The s church s % not interfere with us | So long as we maintain the law. If the law is l to meet with clergymen and others to tell tLem our order is + composed s of laTabidng Sr intelligent some petty boy colt or strike"
 In conclusion, the Master Workman says:
 T write this circular to lay before the order the oi eo o e 1o quired of me. I willing do my part, but not
 g mue place-ether the local and district assemblies of the resign from a vocation which obliges to play part. before the public and another
 that he Knights of Labor do not appro1e of or en courage strikes and in one day desPatfhes came to Cincinnati, T Lynchburg Va, springdeld, O., ana 1a stsud the strain any longer: must have the as, sistance of the order or my most earnest efforts avoided; boycotts must be avoided. Thoss who boast must be checked by their assemblies. No move must be made until the court of last sort has been appealed to- Threat, of violence must not be made Politicians must be hushed up hood must have preference those of any other order If these things done, the next five years will witness the complete emancipation of mankind from the curse of monopoly In members require secrecy, obedience, assistance. patience and courage. If with these aids you strengthen my hands will continue in the work
 The Present outlook at St. Louis. ST. LOUIS, March 26.-J. B. McCullagh, editor of the Globe Democrat, sent leading newsdealer named Mahoney to the Knights of Labor headquarters today requesting an in- terview with the principals regarding any suggestions he might recommend to MT. Gould tending to amicable settlement of existing difficulties. Chairman Irons of dis trict assembly 1O1 and MT. Coughton of No. 93 responded. The question was asked "Can I make any suggestions or offer any manner of compromise by which the present strike can be settled through the meditation of the Globe-D -Demoerats" While the mediation was not authorized by Mr. Gould or others, the impression was conveyed to the two chair men that he was speaking by the card and was open for propositions, the Knights representatives replied that the recognition of the committee of Knights of Labor would probably be the most sensible method of ad-
 
 there was disposition shown to treat with the committee there would be no immediate prospect of a settlement. A long discussion ensued. MT. McCullagh gave the impression to the visitors that all though Mr. Hoxie had refused to arbitrate with the Knights of Labor as members of that organization, he had reconsidered his de- cision and was now anxious to meet them as members of such an order. The interview ended without any promises on the part of the editor to take any action in the. matter. He acted as a diainterested party. It is com mon street talk, however, that the attitude of the Globe Democrat towards the Knights since their trouble has made serious inroads on the business of that paper.
 The incidents of the afternoon were not of an exciting nature except in East St. Louis where an event occurred at 4 o'clock which shows the temper prevailing there At the hour mentioned freight train was gotten ready and pulled out of the Vandalia road yard to start upon it's journey eastward. The train slowed up in crossing the tracks of the bridge, when in an instant the pins were gone from between every car and a crowd laughed at the engineer, who was industriously running away with the first few cars of the train After he found his train was too short he returned and his train was showed back into the yards. The strike on the bridge this afternoon extended to the coal beavers who coal up the engines used in transferring pas senger trains from the various roads to the depot and the coaling of engines will be diff fcult. The freight train which left the Mis- souri Pacific this morning proceeded through Pacific. Mo. without encountering resist ance.
 At late hour tonight there is nothing of an exciting nature to record. The engineer who took out the freight train yesterday re- turned tonight and asked for police protec tion for his residence, which was given. The reason of this, he claims, is his fear of the vengeance of the strikers.
 Chairman Irons' Talk All Bosh. PHILADELPHIA, March 26-General Secre- tary Turner of the executive board of the Knights of Labor this afternoon when shown | copy of the St. Louis dispatch in which | Chairman Irons is quoted as saying the strike ] would probably very soon extend throughout | the United States said: "That is all bosh. | If Chairman Irons is correctly quoted" |" he