St. Paul daily globe., 1888-11-17
An Agitation Of Reforms Will
Be Begun in Continental
Europe.
John Chinaman Receives a Sc
we're Dig Under the Fifth
Rib.
To-Day the Appeals Of Tom
Barry and Others Will Be
Heard.
Special to the Globe.


INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Nov. 16.-The
entire forenoon of the general assembly
of the Knights of Labor to-day was
taken up IN the discussion of one of the
grievances. In August, OF this year.
George A. Schilling, the master work.
man of District Assembly "a, of Chicago,
granted to Il member of the local but
suspended Assembly 400, transfer
card. The minority of Schilling's con-
stituency protested against the granting
of the card on the ground that when a
local assembly was suspended the order
applied to individual members, and
therefore no transfer could be made
to another assembly. An appeal
was taken from Schilling's ruling,
which the committee OH appeals
and grievances sustained. After the
three hours discussion to-day, the as
sembly voted that master workman
had no right to grant member of a
suspended assembly transfer card. In
addition to this action the committee on
laws was instructed to report an amend
ment to the constitution embracing the
action of the assembly. The only other
business of the morning session was the
introduction by Delegate y. ID. BeGoit,
of Montreal. Canada, of a resolution
providing for the. printing in German
and French of the annual address OF
Mrs. l.. M. Barry. the general lecturer
and investigator of wOman'S work. 1t
was passed. The address. after being
printed in the two languages, will be
circulated in Germany and France,
with the hope of bringing about
AN AGITATION OF REFORMS
that will in the end improve the condi-
ton of the working women of those
countries. At the beginning of the
Crafts, ID. D.. of New York city, was in
troduced to the assembly. DR.. Crafts
is the advocate of national Sabbath re-
form, and. by request, he addressed the
delegates upon that subject. He said
that Sabbath reform needed natiOnaliZ-
alton, as it had been treated too much
as a local issue. A national evil needed
a national remedy. He then for. an
hour OF more spoke upon the bad ex-
ample the government was setting in
work in it's postal service on Sunday.
He was particularly severe on
Sunday trains and military paradeS
OF the regular army at the various posts
and garrisons throughout the country.
Inc COlnnlUU6e Oh Tue Sldtt VI tlc UlutI
submitted report recommending the
appointment of a special committee to
endeavor to bring apout legislation for
an eight hour law. The report was
unanimously approved, and the COM
mittee will be appointed later on in the
session. Unexpected trouble arose i'll
the assembly by delegate from Dis
trict Assembly 40, of New York city,
submitting q proposition that news
paper men be made Ineligible to mCnl-
bership i'm the order. After several
speeches had been made pro and con,
the proposition was defeated, only six
delegates voting for it. A resolution
providing tor the organization of local
and district
ASSEMBLIES FOR CHINESE
was discussed for nearly two hours.
Those favoring the proposition claimed
that in large cities like New York, Bos-
ton, Philadelphia and San Francisco.
where there were great 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
majority. The action of the executive
board in regard to National District as
sembly 222, of Brooklyn, n. Y. was
sustained, holding that national as
sembly could be organized within the
limits of district assembly. The Barry
appeal and that of District Assembly 40
will probably be heard tomorrow.