The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-29

| men on the Burlington ana quincy ROAD.
| In it Mr.. Powderly says he knows nothing
| of the merits of the controversy between
the strikers and the Burlington Company,
and says: But, if it is true that the men
are making an effort TO do away with the
| European custom of grading men up and
down, regardless of merit, then they are in
the right in making fight for equality.
| My opinion of man who takes the place
! of another who is struggling for his rights
is that he deserves the contempt and Scorn
| of every man who loves justice.
CRowDING OUT THE KNIGHTS.
at is true that members of the Brother
| hood have on repeated occasions taken the
! places of members of the Knights of Labor.
! 1t is true that away back in the early days
! of the seventies the Brotherhood men did
the same thing with the machinists and
| blacksmlths at the command of their chief.
| 1t is true that the Brotherhood men stabbed
the Knights of Labor i'll the back on the
Southwest system, not only by taking their
places, but by urging them to strike with
| proffer of assistance if they would do SO.
| 1t is true that tho knights of Labor
We're used as cats paws by the Brotherhood
mon in the struggle, and 1t is true that
many fingers We're burned in raking out
| chestnuts for others. Ii is true that the
Brotherhood men did take the places of the
Reading men in the strike on that road
| The merits of the various cases herein men
toned have nothing TO do with the principle
! of honor which is involved in all of them.
TO THEIR SHAME.
at is to the eternal shame of the Brother
| hood men that they stopped to such acts of
meanness and treachery. such unmanly con
! duct The man who takes the place of
another when that other is engaged in
struggle with a corporation is "A 'scab,"
whether he be a member of the Knights of
! Labor or a member of the Brotherhood of
! Locomotive Ems ineers"
Mr.. Powderly carries his arraignment of
| the Brotherhood into further detail and
proceeds to say that the members of the
! Brotherhood were not obliged to make
| cravens of themselves, as many of them did
! both on the Southwest system and in the
Reading strike. The taking of the mems
places was ''mean and dastardly." If these
actions were with the sanction of the Chief
of the Brotherhood, he, too, is mean and
dastardly.
TWO WRONGS DON'T MAKE A RIGHT.
1.-TWO wrongs never make a right and
what is mean and dastardly in members of
the Brotherhood of Engineers cannot be-
come grand and noble in member of the
order of the Knights of Labor No Knight
of Labor should be-little his manhood by
stopping to such dirty work. If it is the
| habit of the Brotherhood men to do such
work as taking strikers places, in heavens
| name let them have a monopoly of It,.
knights of Labor, If you take my advice,
you will stand back and allow this struggle
to go on. Let the Brotherhood demon
strate its power to stand alone without
| any entangling alliances with those of
other trades. Let the past be forgotten i'll
this strike. No matter how bitter you may
feel toward these men remember that they
have not stepped out of the rut of selfish
ness yet. and it is best to teach them what
manhood means by keeping hands off the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy strike"
DEPLoRABLE SPECTACLE.
The spectacle presented by men of labor
who belong to different organizations, rush
ing at each others throats whenever strike
takes place, must be gratifying thing for
the employers of labor to look at. 1t must,
indeed, give satisfaction to corporations to
know that ne ther the knights of Labor or
Brotherhood men, dare in the future ask
for better treatment with any assurance OF
receiving it. II must be consoling thought
to the monopolist to know that his
! power is not half so dangerous to
the labor organization as the possibility
that another labor organization will espOuSe
| his cause through revenge Labor Will for
ever be bound hand and foot at the feet of
capital so long as workingmen can be pitted
against each other"
After some general observations upon
"
labor organizations Mr.. Powderly concludes:
"Knights of Labor, from Maine TO Cali
fornia stand back. Keep your hands off
Let the law Of retaliation be disregarded,
and let the men of the Chicago burlington
| and Quincy railroad win this strike If they
can"
START OF THE KNIGHTS.
The Broad street station Of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad for a long time before the
departure Of the first section Of the Western
| express, on which the accepted applicants
| for the Burlington strikers places left the
city, presented an unusual scene Of activity.
! By actual count ll6 people were admitted
to the train. about one-third of whom
were engineers, the remainder fremen.
| Included among the number were
Bernard J. Sharkey James Gleason
and Frank McGill, members Of
| Central Committee Of the Reading railroad
| strikers. each of whom declared chat they
we're acting individually, and had made
| application to the Burlington company's
| agents for positions, and had been accepted.
| Mr.. Sharkey said that fully 200 men of this
city, and an equal number from points
along tho line had expressed a desire to go
| to Chicago. Another contingent will leave
| here tomorrow night and Mr.. Ward says
that he will be on hand all day tomorrow
to receive applications, of which no has
large number not yet acted ON.
| WHO WARD IS.
The man who inserted advertisements in
! to-day's papers and who received applicants
for employment on the Burlington and
| Quincy. was known as E. d. Ward, but as a
matter Of fact he is none other than Capt.
Doughertv, chief Of the PinkertOn forces in
this section, and is the man who had charge
of the Pinkerton police arrangements at
Port Richmond during the strike at that
point II was amusing 10 see such men as
| Sharkey, Gleason and Mctiill leaders OF the
Port Richmond strikers, in close conference
with Mr. Ward at the station 10 night, and
was n ade all the more so when it was re
membered that tho local assemblies 10
which these men belong and Of which they
are officers, had time and again passed reso-
lutions denouncing the Pinkerton men as
things "cut-throatsh and "the scum OF
the earth" and these leaders we're the
loudest adherents 10 the sentiments ex-
pressed Capt. Dougherty acted more as
| an executive chief of forces at Port Rich
mond. leaving the active work under the
charge OF Capt. Eckstein, and this explains
why the men were IN such blissful ignorance
Of his Identity He did not come In direct
contact with them at Port Richmond at
any time. his headquarters being at the
Office Of the company superintendent.
KNIGHTS GOING FORWARD.
PITTgBURo, Feb. 2s.-Agents Of the Chi