Clarksville evening chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn) 1886-1890, 1888-11-21
THE CONVENTION.
What Is Being Done BY the
Knights at Indianapolis.
THE GENERAL AssEMBLY's ACTION
FREELY CRITICISED,


Conflicting Elements and Delicate oues-
tions Make the Session Highly Inter
esting-Internal Attempts BEING Made
to Break Up the Order-The Pope and
the Knights.
INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 2i-Criticism is free
upon the action of the general assembly,
Knights Of Labor, in the case of William
Gleason, of Chicago, as compared with other
cases. Gleason was expelled by District
Assembly No. "a, and appealed to the general
assembly, which sustains his appeal, and
'relegates the charges back to his local assem-
bly,.
This is in accordance with the constitution
of the order; yet in the case of ]. NJ.
Bloomer, of Toledo, expelled by the general
executive board, the committees report in
favor of reinstating Boomer and referring
his case to his local, was rejected and the
action of the executive board in expelling
him sustained. AS Barry and Others were
expelled by the executive board its power
had to be maintained in all cases.
A significant resolution has been prepar cd,
as follows; I a
"REsoLvED, That 1t is the sense Of the
general assembly that National trades dis
tricts are contrary to The spirit of this order,
and that all National trades districts be re,
quested to surrender their charters imme-
diately; further, that the general executive
board and the officers of the order shall
hereafter cease to interfere in trade mat
| ters" . f guI c,4f4 81 -f
Members, in speaking Of this, even go SC
far as to say--for some reason--a deliberate
attempt is being made internally to break up
the knights ofLabor organization, for there
are many trades which will have nothing tC
do with any order that will not fully allow
them the right of regulating their own
affairs so far as refers to their particular
branch, of which they feel they know more
than any general board, or anybody else
can
The matter of uniting the two great or.
! ganizations of mine laborers, the National
district assembly, organized under the
| Knights of Labor, and the National Fedora
| ton of Miners and Mine Laborers, will moi
be settled until the meeting of miners al
| Columbus, o., on December B, if then
The executive board has asked this general
assembly to invest the board with power to
expel obnoxious members. Editor Dctwiler
of the Chicago Knight Of Labor, was here
the other day taking in ideas, which ap
peared in his paper on Saturday, severely
criticizing this general assembly for arbi
trary action under Powderlys personal
direction, and asserting that Powderly anc
Litchman were afraid to have certain things
made public.
Powderly denounced the article, and hac
referred to committee a resolution to the
effect that whenever member of the ordel
shall, through the public press, make accuse
tions of misdemeanor against members and
officials OF the order, without first having
made and sustained those accusations before
the proper court Of the order, he lays him
self open 60 immediate expulsion by the
general executive board without trial
Litchman and others supported the resolu
tion, and it will pass.
Much interest is felt in the news that tht
church of Rome will continue to tolerate tht
Knights of Labor.