St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-22
The Knights Who Deserted
the Central Will Not Be
Employed Again.
Vice President Webb Issues a
General Order Shutting
Them Out.
The Brotherhood Of Engineers
Approves the Action Of
Chief Arthur.
Engineers and Conductors on
the Northwestern Form a
New Association.

PoUGHKEEPsIE, n. Y, Sept. M.-The
following has been posted at every sta
tiOn the New York Central & Hudson
railroad, by order of Acting First Vice
President Webb:
TO All Agents-On and after Sept. 20, any
promotions to be made on the road must be
made for men now In the employ of the COM
Dany. If you need new men, you may hire
them, but in no case are you to employ any
man who left the company Aug. 8.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 21.-General
Master Workman Powderly, of the
Knights of Labor, left the city to-day
before Press reporter could get talk
with him about the confession of the
three Knights of Labor, duplicating
Master Workman Lee, of District As
sembly PAT, in the wreck on the New
York Central railroad. In his absence
Mr.. Wright. of the general executive
board, spoke for the general officers of
the order. He said:
''Until these confessions were pub
lished we believed that Reed, Cordial,
Cain, Buett and Herman were innocent
of the charges against them. We in
tended to defend them, but since they
swear they took part in the wrecking of
trains, we will make thorough inyesti-
CATION and lend every assistance to
the authorities TO bring the guilty
party to justice. The order of the
Knights of Labor does not recog-
nize that sort of warfare, nor does
1t tolerate within its ranks men who
will resort to it. | cannot believe that
Master Workman Lee had any knowl-
edge of the guilt of these men. Their
claim that he gave them money to leave
the country with do not credit. l know
~ T 40 TO- nd hn
money that was given the executive
committee of the district did not pass
through his hands,"
''What about the statement that men
high in the councils of the order and
who have had the confidence of the gen.
eral officers have been hired as agents
by the railroad company"
Il do not believe that there is any
truth in it. Every man who holds an
important Office is an old member of
the order, and will remain loyal to it
under all circumstances. A day or
two after the strike was ordered,
get its agents into our lists, in order
that they might know what we were
doing. To prevent this we issued an
order that no new men should be mus
tered in in the whole state fer certain
period, and in that way, | am quite
sure, we blocked their game"
did Mr.. POwderly tell you what he
thought of the affair before he left?"
''We had short talk about the mat
ter. but l cannot talk for Mr. Powder
ly."
ALBANY, N. Y, Sept. 21.-As regards
the published confessions of Cain and
Buett, in reference to the attempts at
wrecking on the Central road, John
Herman said tonight that he had no
idea his name was connected with any
of such attempts until the time of his
arrest. Cordial emphatically denied every
allegation in the confession which seeks
to connect him with the wrecking.
Master Workman E. j. Lee, of District
Assembly 246. said tonight that he did
not know Cain or Buett. and denied
everything connecting him with either
aiding or abetting the alleged train
WreckerS