The Portland daily press., 1886-05-10

ana manufacturing, building industries. and for
denomination TO those engaged therein for in
lurles received through lack of necessary safe
guards.
VII The recognition, by incorporation of
trades unions orders and such other associations
as may be organized by the working masses to
improve their condition and protect their
rights. '
VIII The enactment of laws to compel cor
porations to pay their employees weekly, in law
iul money, for the labor Of the preceding week,
upon the product of their labor to the full extent
of their wages.
TX. The abolition Of the contract system on
National, State and Municipal works.
X. The enactment of laws providing for arbi-
tIaton between employers and employed, and to
enforce the decision of the arbitrators.
XII. The prohibition by law of the employment
Of children under 10 years Of age in workshops,
mines and factories.
XII. To permit the hiring out of convict
labor.
XIII. That graduated income tax be levied.
And we demand at the hands of CONGRESS;
XIV. The establishment of National moneta-
ny system, In which a circulating medium in nee
without the intervention OF banks; that all the
national issue shall be full legal tender in pay
the pp mot or
any private banks or create any banking corpora
tons.
XIV. That interest bearing bonds, bills Of cred
1t or notes, shall never be issued by the Govern
ment but that, when need arises, the emergency
shall be met by issue Of legal tender, non-inter-
est-bearing money.
XVI That the importationaof foreign labor I'M
der contract be prohibited.
XVIII. That. in connection with the post office
the Government shall organize financial exchang-
es safe deposits and facilities for deposit of the
savings of the people in small sums.
XVIII. That the Government shall obtain pos
session, by purchase, under the right of eminent
domain, OF all telegraphs telephones aud rail-
roads, and that hereafter no charter or license be
issued to any corporation for construction or OPP
Grafton of any means of transporting intelligence,
passengers or freight.
And while making The foregoing demands upon
the State and National Government, we will en-
deayor to associate our own labors.
XIX. To establish cooperative institutions
such as will tend to supersede the wage system by
the introduction of a cooperative industrial sys-
tenn.
XXX To secure for both sexes equal pay for
equal work.
XXI, To shorten the hours of labor by gen
eral refusal to work for more than eight hours.
XXI. To persuade employers to agree to arbi-
trate all differences which may arise between
them and their employees, in order that the bonds
of sympathy between them may be strengthened
and that strikes may be rendered unnecessary.
Now we affirm that the PRESS has not
been fighting of late single one of these
declarations, and the most of them have its
hearty approval. 1t has in the past fought
the currency programme therein announced
and it would do so again should occasion re-
quire. 1t has doubts also as to the expediency
of placing the railroads and telegraphs in the
hands of the Government; and in view of the
untruthfulness Of men it questions whether
the taxation of incomes would yield the re-
suits the Knights anticipate from it. We be-
lieve these are the only declarations the
PRESS takes serious exception to. What the
PRESS has been fighting is a lot of acts
committed by the men in the name of
the Knights of Labor, but contrary, we
believe, to the principles of that organiza-
ton and not endorsed by the better part of
it. We have criticised the action of the
Knights of Labor in the case of the Missouri
Pacific trouble. The twenty second article
of the Knights creed is ito persuade en-
ployers to agree to arbitrate all differences, p
&c. The st. Louis strikers violated that
article. They went out without notifying
the company that they had any grievances.
We have condemned the strike on the Third
Avenue railroad at New York which was
avowedly for the purpose of compelling the
discharge of men not members of the Union.
We believe that a workingman who does
not belong to union has just as good right
to earn his living as a workingman who does.
We have condemned the boycott which is a
species of blackmail and barbarous and we
believe unlawful practice. But we have
not fought single article of the constitution
of the Knights Of Labor nor single act
which was not contrary to the spirit if not
the letter of that document we have not
coddled the organization for votes as
have some of our contemporaries, but we
have treated it fairly and justly, COM
mending such Of its acts as were good and
denouncing such of its acts as were bad.