Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-26
THE LOGIC OF IDEAS
Rather Than Merely of Winning
Strikes Coming to the Front.
AK. OF L. EDUCATIONAL SCHEME
To be Put into Effect in This City Soon
by the Old Guard.
HOW THE COLUMBIA SIGNED THE SCALE

A movement is on foot among a few of
in this city to organize local assembly to
educate the younger members and inculcate
into them the true principles of the order.
The scheme is yet in its infancy, and little
is known about in. A meeting will be called
within few wee ks, when the assembly will
be formed.
The prime NOV er in the scheme is Editor
John Flannery, ex-Secretary of the old
Coal Miners As ISOLATION. He belongs to
what is known in the order as the
old Guard" The latter is a faction of the
Knights of Labor who were among the first
TO ioin the organization, but who have since
ceased to take an active part. They have
quietly stepped aside and allowed young
blood to run the locals. They were really
the mainstays of the organization, and,
when others deserted, they stuck to the prin-
ciples they loved so well.
PRINCIPLES INSTEAD OF SHOP TALK.
The new assembly will be a mixed local,
and the ordinary shop talk of trades locals
will be missing. Instead Of discussing diff
ferent questions relating to their
trades, the members will debate the
principles of the order, which have
become, to many of them, almost obsolete.
These and their ideas in regard tc land and
money questions will form the principal
subjects of conversation. Many of the old
est members in the city believe in the old
greenback doctrine, and, notwithstanding
the fact that as a political party they have
lbng ceased to exist, they like to promulgate
heir ideas.
A great majority of the members of the
X. of L., who were initiated at the food
tide of the organizations success, do not
know anything about the real intents and
purposes of the order. They have never had
time to pay attention to the literary part of
their association, and the deep-seated ques-
tiOns were never touched upon. The men,
bers of the "OId Guard" came to the con-
clusion few weeks ago that it was about
time to do something in this direction. In
the new local they Will invite all members
of the order to be present. By the inter-
change of opinions and free discussion on
the above questions, much good can be &C
complished.
THE wHEREwITHAL.
The dues in the new local will be 81 per
month. The money they expect to get will
be devoted to building up the order. Halls
will be rented and mass meetings held. 10
these the public will be generally invited
to hear the pri nciples and questions of
economy discussed.
Mr.. Flannery, speaking of the matter
yesterday, said:
There are hundreds Of young people, both
men and women, in the order who have not a
true conception of its original principles. They
have SO much to do talking shop in their
locals that they have no time for anything else.
Consequently what the founders of the order
intended. they have entirely overlooked. We
will now begin to revive the educational scheme
md think il will be great success; and instead
If retrograding will 60 forward. Every
true Knight will be welcome. We will have no
trouble securing the members who have stuck
TO their local assemblies through thick and
thin They have gone to their meeting halls
when they could not get quorum for nearly a
year. yet they did not desert their organization.
Another thing the new local will have a large
library where its m embers can spend the even
ings and read good books.