The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1886-05-20
TIE MASTER WORKAIAN's ADDRESS.


Want Of Discipline in tho Ordcr---A Plan
for the Future Government OF the
knights to be Submitted TO the General
Assembly.
The Chicago Daily NcarS publishes
the following secret circular, which,
it says, has been received bv the
knights Of Labor Of Chicago, and will
bo read in the various assemblies
during the coming week. The circular
is from Grand Master Workman Pow
derby, and is very long one. 1t COM
plains of the hundreds ofuSclcss letters
Qour hundred a dav) and committees
with which he is bored by the order,
ami states that he must have time to
mature plans for the benefit Of the
Order aud must not be Interrupted,
and that he will not receive letters or
co":mittecs, or go anywhere from this
tim" until the meeting of the General
20, al Cleveland, Ohio. The only part
of the circular of general interest is as
follows:
"Ncarly four thousand assemblies
have pledged themselves to act on the |
Sth ultimo. | feel that il only re
qnires the coming to the front Of real
men of our Order 10 set us right
before the world. We have been
,o>ing ground SO tar rs public opinion
IS concerned for some time. One oi
the causes is that we have allowed
thin@s to be done under the name of
the Knights OF Labor for which the
organization was in no way rcspOn
>iblc. ! ask of our members to keep II
jealous eye on the doings of labor men
who never labor, and when they charge
anything 10 the Order in your locality
set The seal of your condemnation upon
It at once by denving ii. If q paper
criticiscs the knights Of Labor or it's
officers, do not boycott it, and if You
have any such boycotts on remove
them.
"a journal not long since made some
uncoInDi nDiimcntnTY alluSiOnS to the Gen
crul Master Norhmnn pi thG Knig hts
of Labor, and at the "cXt m"etIhg OF
the nearest assembly mTttloD was
cast TO boycott the papcr-not ,mH''
alone, but every person who advcr-
used L. The columns Of the paper. !
wrote to the assembly asking that they
remove the boycott, and it was done
We must bear in mind that the Gen
erAl Master Workman is only man,
and is not above criticism. We dc.
mand for ourselves the righta of free
speech. We cannot consistently deny
1t to others. We must tolerate fair,
open criticism. If reply is neces.
sary make it in gentlelnanly, digni-
lied manner. If we are criticised or
abused by blackguard sheet, treat il
as YOU would the bIackguard himself
III 8. tncc. That our aims and objects
arc good is no ,easOn why our mem
bcrs should be regarded as being OF
superior build or material. We are
no moro the salt of the earth than
millions of unknown toilers who do
the wC.k of the world. In orr deal.
'''gs with laborers and capitalists we
must deal justly and fairly by them; if
we would have it equally done to us we
must IN turn do it equally to others.
| ms is the aim of the Knights Of Labor
ana must'not be lost sight of in the
future.
1--WE have had some troublc from
drinking members and from men who
talk about buying guns end dynamite.
IL C'le men who possess money enough
TO bny guns and dynamite Would IN
vest 1t in the purchase OF some well
selected work on labor, they world nut
the money to good use. They viii
never need guns or dynamite in his
country. 1t is my opinion that the
man who does not study the politics OF
the nation and the wants of the people
would make but little use of a rifle.
The man who cannot vote iutelligently,
and who will not watch the man he
votes for after he is elected, cannot be
depended on to use either gun or
dynamite. If the, head and brain OF