The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-08-19

opportunity to empress ats Uotc e unrcstrdlned
Short letters regarding the condition of labor.
its demands, abuses, etc., ,rM be promptly pub
lished.
There are five Assemblies of knights of
Labor in Durham.
There are two lodges of the Knights of
Labor here, one composed of whites, the
other of negroes. In the latter one member
is being tried for some violation of the laws
of the order.-Idr6o orc Southerner.
Mecklenburg Assembly, No. o6S7, knights
of Labor have presented Mr.. John R. Ray,
of this city, with neat gold headed cane,
as an appreciation of his labors as State or
ganizer for that order Mr.. r. is very proud
of his cane, and speaks in very glowing
terms of the members connected with that
Assembly. Visitor.
At convention of deleg ates fro IA L. A.
64s5, 650s and $685., K. of L., held in
Winston last Thursday, Mr.. Leonidas n.
Keith, of L. A. No. 64S5, the foreman of
THE SENTINEL Job Printing Rooms, was
chosen as delegate to represent the three
Assemblies at the General Assembly which
meets in Richmond in October next And
Mr.. J. ii. Elan of L. A. No. 65OS, was
chosen alternate. We congratulate the
Knights upon their wise selections. Mr.
Keith will make faithful and efficient rep
ressntativs.
At the State Assembly of the Knights of
Labor held at Raleigh asst week, the
name of Mr.. w. T. Pfohl, of Winston, was
recommended and sent to Grand Master
Powderly as one of the State Organizers, in
place of Mr.. John r. Ray, who has accept
ed a lucrative position in printing house
in Massachusetts. Mr.. Pfohl. was also
elected member of the Executive Board
of the State Assembly.
EDITOR SENTINEL :-Undoubtedly the
great question of our time is the labor prob
lem. 1t is for US to determine what are the
proper relations of wage-earners to their
employers, and how near to such relations
the world can come without a social revolu-
ton.
There are, of course, some so-called re-
formers principally oreigners--though
more noisy than numerous, who seem to
think that the relations which they desi re
to establish cannot be substituted for those
now existing without turning society, laws
and government completely upside down.
They do not shrink from that consequence,
and boldly proclaim themselves Socialists
or reformers of society. Consequently it is
not easy to persuade minds that are preju-
diced already that the knights of Labor
and other trades unions are institutions
which are the outgrowth of the best human
experience, and that are most strongly en-
trenched, as we'll as deliberately constructed.
L take it then, that for the time being the
reform of labor relations must proceed with
in the limits of modern social arrangement
That is to say, we must recognize rights of
capital and well as rights of labor, and must
so frame any new laws which the growing
Importance, in political sense, of the wage
Garner makes it certain will be passed, as to
prevent eiLner from making unjust encfOacn-
ment upon the ether. How this is to he
done is a matter for the most careful consid-
Grafton and subject upan the details OF
which it is unnecessary to enter in this con-
nection. 1t is merely a principle which ev-
cry right-thinking man will, no doubt, ac-
cept without question.
The writer has been connected with labor
organizations for number of years, and
must admit that there are individuals in
most every organization who entertain a
spirit of violence and riot yet this is scorn-
ed by representative members, and is not to
be found in the fundamental principles oil
any trades union. While the laboring class
are conscious of increasing strength, yet rep
resentative union men are likewise conscious
that when it becomes evident that the de.
struction of property and blood-shed are
aimed at, sympathy is forfeited, and labor
invites its own defeat.
FRANK DoUGHERTY.
Walkertoten, N. c., August 18th.