Omaha daily bee., 1888-04-08
FRIENDS IN THE FUTURE.
The knights and the brotherhood
Kiss and Make Up.

New York, April 7.-lSpecial Telegram to
the BEE "A Herald special from Scranton,
Pa, says: AS result of the recent confer
ences between General Master Workman
Powderly and representatives of the Broth
hood of Locomotive Engineers, the Herald
correspondent is justified in stating that a
friendly feeling has been established between
the knights and engineers by which fu-
ture antagonism between these organiza-
tions will be averted. IAN injury 10 one will
be the concern Of the other,m and provisions
will be made TO prevent the brotherhood men
taking the places of knights on strike and
vice versa. The committee that recently
came here from Chicago to wait on General
Master Workman Powderly had a letter of
introduction from Chief Arthur, and when
they were going away Powderly gave them
q letter to the chief f'the brotherhood as
surfing him and his order of cordial sympathy
and support Powderly stated to corre-
spondent that such was the case, and that an
understanding mutually advantageous to
both organizations would soon be reached.
When asked if it was true that he had or
dered out the knights of Labor on the "Qn
road Mr.. Powderly said: "There is no truth
IN that statement. ! was waited on by
committee representing the brotherhood, who
came on from Chicago, and the calling out of
the employees who are Knights of Labor was
not spoken of or limited at. The main ques-
tion discussed was the stoppage of the
knights of Labor who went from the east to
take the places of the engineers on the 20"
road. i explained to the committee tnat it
was a difficult thing to reach these men or in
fluence them in any way, for the reason that
they had violated their obligations as knights
of Labor by taking the step they did. told
them that it was unfortunately true that the
relations between the knights and the broth
erhood had been strained somewhat previous
to the Burlington strike, and for that reason
some of the former would feel justified in the
course they were pursuing l also explained
to them that many of the men who claimed
to be knights of Labor and took the place of
| the Burlington engineers had never been
| members of our organization. l have taken
pains to sum up the number of men reported
to have gone from Reading to the "Q'' road,
| and a careful compilation shows that 5000
| men, all of them engineers, ana all of them
| claiming to be knights of Labor, passed
| through Pttsburg. 1t is also reported that
| no less than 1000 passed through Buffalo,
| while other large centers, through which the
| men had to pass, would no doubt raise the
| total number to something like 10000 men.
| The truth of the matter Is that all these re-
| ports are grossly exaggerated and that not
| over $50 knights, all told, have gone out to
the 80" road, and over one-half of them have
| returned to their homes. indeed, | do not
see how man who has taken the pledge of
| the knights of Labor could put himself in
| charge Of Pinkerton's agents, for if there
| is creature that crawls upon the face
| of the earth that a Knight of Labor
should despise 1t is Pinkerton detective. l
have addressed a letter to the knights of
Labor along the Burlington road, advising
| them to meet with our erring knights and
| ask them to return to their homes"
| HAS any arrangements been entered into
| between the Knights of Labor and the
| brotherhood for union of interests:''
| "Well, yes. 1t is agreed that when this
| strike is over there is to be an effort made to
have the brotherhood and the knights Of
| Labor come to an understanding as to n set
tlement Of all disputes in the future. A
| great many of the misunderstanding of the
| past have resulted from failure of the or
| ganizations to come together Had the
| chiefs of the brotherhood and the knights of
| Labor been on good terms as they should
| have been, and had they understood each
| other as they will in the future. persons who
| did not belong to either organization could
| not palm themselves off as taking revenge
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