Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-11-17

gGnize what was called a Provisional Commit;
tee ior Inc purpose of purifying the Order y
e., peelsion s,, NO 20 which Is herewith presented
with The question of the right of the mem befs of
the PROVISIONAL Committee" to visit or Other
wise Wise NEEDLE with the Assemblies of this Order
Inat decision should be approved and a law
passed at this meeting which would promptly
and forever eXpel from the Order anv member
VINO would engage in such dastaidly work as
was lnauSafated at the meeting of the Chicago
Provisional committee. Reforms spring from
the noblest impulse but the impulse which
iurthered the assembling of the Professionally
was born in hate, nursed IN envy and grew to
It's present size in the hope hat this great Order
would one day be brought beneath the rule of
men VINO do nCs possess the courage of man
selves. -N---
No humanitarian and mawkish sentiment
should sway us st tlis session. Let us at once
al hila IofeYeT put It beyond the power of any man
10 hgnt TINS order or its principles and remain
member If they VIII tear down let them tear
IRON the outside. ana let every true, honest man
IN the order take SIDES, and ther 90 with these
misguided creatures or stand firm and defend
the Order from their vile attacks
1hese attacks upon the Knights of Labor come
T from Ihe persistent opposition which has been
SHOWN TO the idea OF allowing other organiza-
tons 10 control the Knights OF Labor. DO not
mlsnnderStand me for do not refer TO trades
unions. once referred to this matter at a
meeting OF this body and my remarks were
twisted aud tortured to serve the purpose of
designing knaves, who attempted to play unon
tHc iSSi1hSS u lhe Trades uniOnistS ( do not
mean the trades uniOnistS. Their cause and
ours are one III the main.
The organization which your General Master
speats OF IS the International Workingmer's
Association, which tassed resolutions three
years ago TO secure the election of its trusted
agents as general officers Of the Knights of La
Dor. Tbe proofs are in my possession 1he
plans ot these men met with but little success,
ana from that time 70 the present the members
OF thaJ organization have secretly and untiringlv
Workt Tor the ruin of this Order We had the
misfortune to elect mau whO was either n
member or sympatbizer with these men to the
General Executive Board, and he has at all
Tunes shown preference for the principles of
that organization. An honest man would go
with the society which claimed his allegiance.
but men who will deny their connection with
thelr societies will not scIuple to destroy the
knights OF Labor if an opportunity presented
itself That opportunity has never presented
Itself, aud they sought to make it and failed
You may accuse your General Master Work
man or entertaining a bitter feeling for this
element. If so, you are wrong There is no
bitterness. There is, however, a determination
on MS part TO drive from the Order every ele-
ment OF discord if it lies in his power to do So
Continuing, he advocates a more equal divis-
ION ofthe wealth produced by labor and de-
nounees gambling in money. in land, in rail
ways and III the very food which is withheld
nom the mouths OF millions at the sound of the
stockholders ticker"