Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-17

the second only partially so; the third has been
entirely overlooked, if not willfully neglected.
Had organization been thorough and complete,
the present dlsintegration Of our forces would
not have taken place. Those who have always
opposed the educational feature of our order
have sought to arrest this disintegration, and
perhaps to disguise their selfish ineonIpetency
revenue.
we therefore find ourselves after a lapse of
nearly twenty years, compelled to continue the
work OF agitation, strengthen and perfect organ
1zatlon and commence the work of education
eoucatIon IN such subjects of theoretical and
practical economies and industry as are not con-
templated or included in the course of a common
school education, which is the only education
the children of a workingInan can secure,
but which are highly essential, if not alb
SoluteIy indispensable, to make of the citizen an
independent and self-suPporting worker: an ed
ueatlon which shall secure liberty for all and
present to the world a spectacle which it has
never yet beheld-a free man in an industrial
state. : We believe IN secrecy, and so do
those who hypocritically profess to oppose it.
We are convinced that the present
disruption of the order has arisen
because of departure from the
original method of selecting members, and, hav-
ing admitted them by election, looking to num-
our activity we recognized three broadly distinc-
tive characteristics among our fellow-workers.
three different casts of mind and makeup of
men; those whose habits and tendencies belong
TO the constructive; those who belong to the
negative, and those who belong to the destruc-
tive school of thought.
I've nature and build up our movement by their
AID IN order that we might make education the
basis or our operations. The practice of latter
days has been 20 elect, no natteriwhonl, in order
to swell the numbers; hence the disintegration
OF the order and the defeat of our purposes.
TWAS never intended that the autonomy
of the local assembly should be abridged or
usurped by the district or general assembly We
distinctly recognized that collective counsel and
combined action were necessary to the success
ful prosecution of our ideas and the final achieve
ment OF our industrial emancipation.
We have seen what extravaganza has been
practIced IN the past. Men have left useful en-
Payments to live as parasites upon the pennies
contributed by the workers. They have used
the order as means of escaping from the ranks
OF the useful producers to become useless
consumers. We are determined to prevent
this in the future. We are of the opinion
that who viii not devote his time to the
cause of labor's emancipation for the same wages
which he receives from boss is not the man
who IS DESTROYS of helping his fellow-fnan. II
money be his only object, let him devote his
services to those who pay the best Devotion
not dollars, must be the standard of measure
ment of the manhood of our members.
in concluding this necessary long epistle we
would suggest that when you have selected a
sufficient number of persons at least TEN who
believe in the ideas herein enunciated, we viii
communicate with you as to the method of
founding assembly upon proper notification
of the above Respectfully and fFaternaIIy, -.
Box SS4, Philadelphia, Pa.
1t now transpires that George Schilling
and five others, whose names have not
yet come to light, are the organizers of
the new movement
They claim that in Chicago alone more
than score of assemblies have cut off
all communication with the general
executive board, and have organized
as a part of the new secret order
The work is done IN this way: The secret
picks ont ten anti-Powderly
men-parties whom he can trust. These
ten organize with a new charter on the
secret plan, with secret name, under
the most binding obligation. Then the
ten charter members feel their way with
the other members and lead them into
the secret order by twos and threes, in a
quiet way, until they have captured 4
majority Then they go back into the
old assembly long enough to vote it out
of existence.
An attempt was made yesterday to in
duce George Sehilliag to talk on this
but without success. He was
asked:
Are the Knights of Labor reorganiz-
ing on the secret plan?'
Il cannot answer.
Who represents the new movement
in Philadelphia with p. o. box S34 as his
address,?
q cannot answer
- Is this movement against Powderlv?'
q cannot answer You see. nv dear
fellow, that secret is a secret. Under
stand?
From other sources, however, it vns
learned that the attempt TO reor@aulze |