Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-17
Topics Of the Times.
Under Discussion by Repre-
sentative Bodies.
KNIGHTS OF LABOR IN ASSEMBLY

Listen to Talk on Sunday Reform and
Refuse to Admit All sin or Exclude
Newspaper Men-Business Men Demand
the Suspension of Silver Coinage and
Otherwise Express ThemseIyes-Farm-
ers Put in Word or Two.
INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 1.-THE entire fore
noon yesterday of the general assembly OF
the Knights of Labor was taken up in the
discussion of one of the grievances
In August of this year George A. Schilliug the
master workman Of District assembly No. "a, of
Chicago, granted to member of the local but
suspended assembly No. 400 a transfer card The
minority of Schiiling's constituency protested
against the granting of the card on the ground
that when local assembly was suspended the
order applied to individual members and there
fore no transfer could be made to another assem-
bly,. An appeal was taken from Schining's rul-
ing which appea' the committee on appeals and
grievances sustained
After the three hours discussion yesterday
the assembly sustained the appeal also. In
addition to this action the committee on laws
was instructed to report an amendment to
the constitution embracing the action of the
assembly
The only other business of the morning
session was the introduction by Delegate o.
D. Benoit, of Montreal Can, of a resolution
providing for tine printing in German and
French OF the annual address of Mrs l. NJ
Barry, the general lecturer and investigator
of women's work l. was passed The ad-
dress after being printed in the two Ian
guages, will be circulated in Germany and
France, with the hope of bringing about an
,f a.. j
prove the condition of the working women
of those countries
At the beginning of the afternoon session
Rev. Wilbur F. Crafts, D. D, of New York
City, was introduced TO 1he assembly Dr.
Crafts is the advocate of national Sunday
reform, and by request he addressed the
delegates upon the subject
He said that Sunday reform needed nationaI
Zation, as it had been treated too much as local
issue. 4 national evil needed national remedy
He then for an hour or more spoke upon the bad
example the government was setting in work in
its postal service on Sunday. He was particn-
larry severe on Sunday trains and military parades
Of the regular army at the various posts ald gar
IiSons throughout the country.
The committee on the state of the order
submitted report recomn ending the APP
pointment OF special committee to en-
deavor to bring about legislation Tor an
! eight hour law. The report was unani-
| mously approved. and the committee will be
appointed later in the session.
Unexpected trouble arose in the assembly
by delegate from District assembly 40, of
New York city, submitting a proposition
that newspaper men be made ineligible to
membership in the order. After several
speeches had been made pro and con, the
proposition was defeated only six delegates
voting for it.
A resolution providing for the organiza-
| ton of local and district assemblies for Chi.
nese was discussed for nearly two hours.
| Those fayoring the proposition claimed that
in large cities like New York, Boston, Pnila.
deiphia and San Francisco, where there were
many Chinese laborers, great good could
be done by taking them into the Knights OF
Labor and allowing them to organize local
and district assemblies of their own The
resolution was voted down by decisive ma
jorty.
The action of the executive board in re
gard to National District assembly 223
| Brooklyn, n Y, was sustained holding that
a national assembly could be organized
within the limits OF a district assembly.