Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-11-17
LABORERs LEGlSLATlNG.
Proceedings of the K. of L.
 General Assembly.
NO REAL BUSINESS TRANSACTED

An Important Question Settled-One Day
 Hoar Question-Proposition to Bar News
 paper Men-Chiuamen Ineligible.
 INDIANAPOLIS, Nov 1.-The entire first session of the General Assembly of the Knights of Labor was taken up in the dis cussion of one of the grievances In August of this year George A Schilling, the master workman of District Assembly @, of Chi cage, granted to a member of the local, but suspended, Assembly 400 transfer card. The minority of Schilling's constituency protested against tho granting of the card on the ground that when local assembly was susEended 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 on appeals and grievances sus- taiaed- After the three hours discussion the assembly voted master workman had no right to grant a member of a suspended assembly a transfer card. 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 session was the introduction by Delegate Benoit, of Mon treal, of a resolution providing for the III OerInan ana fTencn the an- nual address of Mrs L. M. Barry, the gen eral lecturer and investigator of woman's work. It 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 re- forms that will In the end improve the con- dition of the working women of those coun- tries At the beginning of the afternoon ses- sion Rev. Wilber F. Crafts, D. D., of New York city, was introduced to the assembly, Dr. Crafts is the advocate of national Sab bath reform, and by request he addressed the l delegates on this subject. He said Sabbath reform needed naturalization, as it had been treated too much a local issue. A national evil needed a national remedy He then, for an hour or more, spoke upon the bad exam pie the government was setting by work in its postal service on Sunday. He was par ticularly severe on Sunday trains and mill tary parades of the regular army at the var ious posts and garrisons throughout the country.
 The committee on the state of the order submitted a report recommending the ap pointment of a special committee to endeavor to bring about legislation for an eight hour law. The report was unanimously approved and the committee will be appointed later or | in the session.
 Unexpected trouble arose in the assembly by delegate from District Assembly 49. ot New York city, submitting a proposition that newspaper men be made ineligible tc membership in the order. After severa speeches had been made pro and con the proposition was defeated, only six delegate. | voting for it.
 A resolution providing for the organiza tion of local and district assemblies fo
 Chinese was discussed for nearly two hours
 Those favoring the proposition claimed tha
 in large cities like New York Boston, Phila delphia and San Francisco, where there wer
 great many Chinese laborers, great gooc
 could be done by taking them into tn
 Knights of Labor and allowing them to or
 ganize local and district assemblies of thei own. The resolution was voted down by decisive majority
 An officer high in authority says positivel,
 that Powderly will not accept 8 reelection a
 general master workman, partly because tn
 salary of the position is to be reduced, an , partly because he has under consideration two offers of liberal salaries from New Yor ,. newspapers for work of a special character