Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-05-13

sohere the difficulty Is shall continue at
too5k. No matter what the difficulty Is, no
matter il every hand in the place is dis
charged but one, that one must keep at
work and can neither go out nor strike
because there is no strike until all means
of adjustment have been exhausted and
the committee appointed to arbitrate the
matter returns 10 its executive board and
submits the case, unless they are pre-in-
structed If they cannot settle ii TO imme-
diately order strike. There are many
times when five or six meetings between
firm and an executive board are held
before strike is ordered. The proof
that this system is the correct one lies in
the fact that there has been only two
strikes ordered in our jurisdiction this
year.
'No local assembly under the iurisdic-
ton of d. A. No. / is allowed. under
penalty OF losing its charter, to order
strike without the sanction Of the dis
triot.
SOMETHING ABOUT BoYooTTs.
"My opinion of the boycott is that IL
seems to be the last resource of wretched-
ness against oppression. We are all hor-
riied because manufacturer has been
injured in business through boycott,
and yet, If we analyze this subject, we
will find il was the suddenness thereof
that crushed him and not the result of il,
for we all boycott somebody more or less.
| When manufacturer becomes offended
with one or dozen of his employees, nine
times out of ten he will refuse to give
them work, and If they are very offensive
he will notify other men in the same line
of business not to give them work.
"There is one case which comes before
the notice of District Assembly No. l /;
it may have been different in degree from
many others but it was one of an almost
countless number that the board has had
to deal with, where an employer who
owns mill insists upon refusing to hire
anybody who will not live in one of his
houses, when they can prove to him thnt
the house is not fit to live in or that il
does not suit them. This is the same
treatment you would bestow on horses OF
cattle, and yet such things have become
80 common in our ears that they have
almost lost their meaning there. But
says some one, 4 am opposed to boycotts
because they lnjure one mans business.
So am l, and am opposed to any kind
of boycott that injuries people, whether
in business or not. i would have the
whole country and world genus homo
and that is what the Knights of Labor are
working for. would give to every mar
the same rights that demand for myself
and we should never forget the rights o.
others"
Mr.. Wright declined to say anything
whatever OH the local situation. In thu
course of an informal talk on miscel
laneous matters, he stated that man,
people were under the impression that b,
was receiving pretty good salary for hi
work in the organization, whereas il
truth his compensation was no create
"than that of the meanest weaver in TIL,
ranks" and that, while working to Obtain
reduction of hours of labor TO
others, he frequently put in II
hours of hard work to his own day. HI
spoke strongly of men of diminutiv,
brains, who could not make living a
their trade using their endeavors when i
came in their power to pull down or in
jure fabrics the nature and scope o
: which their feeble minds were not capabl
} of comprehending. Such men are poo
} marplots of whom he would say, withou
; irreverence, "Forgive them for the,
} know not what they do"