Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16
DOWN TO BUSINESS.
MIR. Powderly's General Assembly
Has Plenty of Work on Hand.
A LETTER FROM JUSEPH L. EVANS.
Local Trades Councils Will Assist in Get
ting Shorter hours.
DRIFT OF A DAY IN LABOR CIRCLES

Considerable interest is being manifested
among local knights of Labor IN the pro-
ceedings of the General Assembly now IN
session at Denver. A letter was received
yesterday, at X. of J.. headquarters, from
Master Workman Evans, who represents u.
A. 3, in which he states the business OF the
assembly thus far has been transacted with
greater harmony than usual, although they
have not more than started rightly on the
measures 10 be considered.
The session will last two weeks yet, ana
some very important business is to be con-
sldered. The matter of bringing about
closer affiliation with the Farmers Alliance
will probably be considered the first OF this
week. The question will hardly be settled
In day, as a great manv OF the delegates
are believed to regard this affiliation as
move toward taking the order into politics.
This feeling is strengthened by Mr.. Powder
ly's hearty recommendation that iraternai
delegates be sent to the next convention OF
the Farmers Alliance.
ABoND OF UNITY WANTED.
The attention of the General Assembly
will also be taken up for some time consid-
ering the proposed federation with the rail-
way organizations. 1t is not intended to
bring about a complete consolidation, but q
closer bond of unity between the men en-
gagged in the railway service will IN all
probability be formed. Many new laws Tor
the government of strikes are likely to be
adopted.
Mr.. Evans will present measure himself
IL, II a. &C. Z fhn
delegates on the question of emigration. He
will ask the assembly to make an effort to
have bill passed requiring that each per-
son shall be required to have a passport
issued by the proper officials of the country
from which they sail; the passport to be
signed by the United States Consul at the
port of EN- barkation.
The election OF general officers is not ex-
pected to come up before the middle OF next
week, and while this matter does not seem
to have created as much discussion as in
the past, there is great deal of interest
manifested in it. Of course the majority
feel that Mr.. Powderly will be reelected
without opposition, and the contests, if any,
will likely be on the other officers. Speak
ing of the meeting in general way, Mr1
Powderly's official paper has this very in
teresting comment to make:
MEETING AGAIN WITH CONFIDENCE.
This meeting has not been SO widely adver-
tised in the press by means of stories of the
orders impending disruption as were former
meetings. A feeble attempt was made to start
the usual annual story of dissension and dis
satisfaction, but the falshood would not float,
and the Pittsburg fabricator who started it
of course it emanated from Pittsburs-relapsed
into silence. The truth is that the order
has lived down its detractors. With a
steadily increasing membership and with a
very much larger proportion than ever before
of members whose belief in its principles, and
not their mere membership constitutes their
connection with the Order, the Knights of La
Dor can now treat with indifference the carping
attacks of enemies. instead of the widespread
distrust and dissatisfaction apparent two years
ago, threatening as it did the defamation, if
not disruption, of the order, the General As
senbly meets this time with confidence restored
and with enthusiasm as lively as in the orders
palmiest days.