The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-10-16
THE KNIGHTS.
Their Plank on the Subject of
Social Equality.
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The knights in Convention.

RICHMOND, Va, October Is. -'The
general assembly elected the remaining
members of the general cooperative
board at tn cir session to. day. Pow
DERBY, addressing the general assembly,
expressed full confidence in the men
elected. and pledged himself 10 faith
full performance of the duties entrusted
to him. He urged upon the assembly
the importance of temperance and
asked them to endeavor to impress the
Importance of this subject on the vari-
Gus local assemblies. He called atten-
ton to the fact that not one of the
general officers elected at the
general assembly used intoxicating
liquors. Each of the general officers
then formally pledged himself to
total abstinence from intoxicating
liquors during his two years term OF
Office. The General Master Workman
then installed all the officers elected.
The following resolution was presented
by Delegate Barrett, of Pennsylvania;
Whereas, Reports have been circulated
and impressions created by the press OF the
country regarding the position OF the
knights of Labor upon the question OF
social equality, and
HUCTCQS, We DClloNS Tue hGlAdLC Vi VIC
order in the south requires that this General
Assembly takes such action as will dispel
these wrong impressions, therefore,
ResolUed, That the. organization OF the
Knights of Labor promises civil and polit-
ical equity of all men, and In the broad
field Of labor it recognizes no distinction on
account of color, but it has no purpose to
interfere with or disrupt social relations
which may exist between the different
races which may exist in different portions
of the country.
The resolution was adopted without
debate.
When the General Assembly, of the
Knights of Labor went into session the
first business to be completed was the
election OF the remaining general Of
fcers-tWo members of the general CO.
operative board. It was expected that
this would take bat 9 short time, and
that the consideration of the report on
the revision of the constitution, pre-
sented by the committee on law,
would be resumed. This, in turn, was
to be followed by reports from other
committees, nearly all of which are
ready to report. Among the first to be
presented, is the report of the commit
tee on the state of the order,
of which Ralph BeaEnan is
chairman. This report endorses
the report of the committee on legisla-
ton, of which Beaumont IS also chair
man, and recommends that a supple
mentary report of the same committee,
in which plan for congress composed
| of representatives of the Knights of
| Labor, be established at Washington, be
sent out to al local assemblies for their
approval. Mr.. Beaumont is daily in
receipt of letters, both from Knights of
Labor and others, commencing his
idea. The committee on the state of
the order. also endorses the General
! Master Workman's advice to the gen.
eral assembly. and recommends the
4 endorsement of the report of Charles
\ II. Eitchman, special agent. APP
| pointed by the General Master
| Workman to represent the order
| before the Congressional committee,
appointed to investigate the cause and
/ effect of the Southwestern Railroad
strikes. In his report, Mr.. Litchman
recites that the hearings were held at
various places in Texas and Arkansas,
and says: The testimony in behalf of
| the railroad was mainly to show what
great damage had been caused by the
strike to railway property and COM
merce; that it had been begun on a
frivolous pretext, without real cause;
and that the order of the Knights of
Labor was directly responsible for all
damage done and all acts of VIC
lence committee. With unlimited
resources at their command, it was
comparatively easy for the railroad
officers to carefully drill their witness
in the line of statements which should
fit each other and their preliminary
drilling was painfully apparent in the
testimony given. Like lot of parrots,
they all echoed the statement that the
only cause they had ever heard assigned
for the strike was the discharge of a
man named Hall at Marshall, Texas"