The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-08-22
Knights Of Labor Will Strike
Hard Next Week.
PoWDERLY HIMSELF WILLS IT.
Young Mr.. Webb Awaits the Crash
With Courage of Ignorance.
All tho Other Employees are With the
knights, and are Acting Deliberately
This 10 the First Strike Powderiy
Has Ever Sanctioned.

New York, Aug. 21.-This day has been
to the labor leaders here like pause in a
battle. Rather, it has been to them day
of preparation after the declaration of war.
Never before has Powderly been personally
in the heat of a contest like the one
believed to be coming He has never yet or
dered strike, and feels some pride in the
record OF peace which he has held previous
to this. There is little doubt. however,
about his determination in this case. His
men say he is here to stay, and the execu-
tive board say its headquarters during the
strike, if one is ordered, will be in this
city.
II is clear that Powderly and his cabinet
intend, If the strike is made general, that
the responsibility shall be brought just as
close as possible to the rank and file. This
purpose under.ies the orders of the
board to Master Workman Lee to
convene his district assembly, also the order
which has gone up the river to Albany to
convene their district assemblies Monday.
At these meetings the local assemblies will
voice their disposition as to a general
strike, and the result will be that fair
concensus of opinion among the men will
be had
The Federation's supreme body will not
meet till Saturday. and will probably COM
mrnicate its determination to the Knights
of Labor here that night or on Sunday.
The Albany district assembly, whose action
will be influential in the plan laid out by
Powderly to maze the men themselves de-
clare general strike, will not meet till
Monday. A fair conclusion from the facts
and circumstances is that the grand strike.
if il is to come, will not fall before next
week
New YORK, Aug. 21.-Secretary Hayes,
of the executive board, announced this
afternoon that on Monday next, at Albany,
a meeting of District Assembly 246 would
be held, at which the executive board
would be present for the purpose of con-
sultation. At this meeting each of the
local assemblies will send from three to
five delegates, and there will be present
from 800 to 700 members from that section
of the state lying adjacent to the Central
road from New York to Buffalo.
Webb late in the afternoon said, relative
to the charge made by Powderiy that ne
and the executive board since their arrival
here had been shadowed by detectives.
that unless he had taken every lawful
means to protect the interests OF his road
and kept himself informed as to what the
members OF the board were doing. he
would be wholly unfit to remain half an
hour in his present position.
Chief Sargent this morning said that q
meeting of the Federation of Railroad Men
will be held at Terre Hante Saturday with
the undoubted result that a strike on the
entire Vanderbilt system would be ordered,
as he and his three associates had indorsed
the action of the general executive board
of the knights of Labor.
He thoroughly believed the supreme
council of the federation would sustain it.
He also said the action of Webb last night
in adhering SO firmly 10 the stand taken
had rendered the action they had taken
necessary. Webb's arbitrary methods and
utter refusal to arbitrate make it useless to
deal with him any longer.
Vice. President Webb this morning said
he did not believe the impending strike
would be nearly so gigantic as the Feder-
alton and the Knights OF Labor would have
people to believe. Webb did not doubt that
the supreme council of the Federation
would call out the men, but he was of the
opinion that the number who would re-
spond would not be so great after all.
Fort PLAIN. n. Y. Aug. 21.-The strike
on the Central is having serious effect on
business in the Mowhawk valley and
Johnstown and Gloversville. In the latter
place the manufacturers and merchants ex-
perience great delay in getting goods
shipped. Some of the glove factories will
soon have to shut down if the strike con-
tinues. Provisions are advancing in price.