Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-08-29
At Albany.
The X. of L. Meets to Investigate the
Cases of the Discharged Men.

The X. of L. Meets to Investigate the
Cases of the Discharged Men.
ALBANY, N. Y, Aug. 25.-The execu-
tive board of the knights of Labor was
in session with the district assembly 246,
to-day. Previous to going into the after
noon meeting, Secretary Hays said: "In
the conference this morning, after Mas
ter Workman Lee called the delegates
together, Powderly explained that the
object of himself and his colleagues in
calling the meeting was: First, they
wanted the fullest possible information
upon the causes of the strike, and they
wanted to hear the statements of such of
the discharged men as they had not been
able to see; second, they wanted to know
the exact condition of affairs at every
~point-how many men were out; how
many, if any, had gone back; how many:
of the men on the strike we're now men,
bers of the order, and what is the condi-
ton of the train service of the company.
Nearly all of the discharged men we're
present as delegates, and ten of them
we're prepared with proofs to show that
the reason for their discharge was be-
bause they were Knights of Labor. In
vestigation was then confined to those
ten men, and it was shown that until
their connection with the Knights of La
Dor, there were no known charges of
drunkenness, INSTRUMENTATION or incom-
petence. The charges were trumped up
against them. The cases of the poor
discharged men who are not delegates,
and consequently not admitted to con-
ference, will be investigated later.
At the afternoon conference of the
general executive board and D. A. 246,
twenty of the men who were discharged
we're admitted and closely questioned by
Powderly relative to the causes which
they thought led to their dismissal. It
is claimed many facts were brought out
which tended to show that the discharges
were the results of a ~preconcerted plan
to drop all prominent leaders in the Cir
Gle of the Knights. Among those dis
charged we're some who admitted that
when they were dropped, the reasons,
not included i'll Webb's statement, were
given, but entirely different ones. Sew
eral of the men said they were charged
with INSTRUMENTATION at the time of their
dismissal, and added that the only act Of
theirs which the officials of the road
could construe as n of characterization
was where they had served on commit
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the road and presented grievances at
different times. Powderly said it had
been charged that the Knights of Labor
was a "foreign organization and this
! strike was the result of their machina-
tions. He asked the delegates present
who we're born under the American flag
to stand up. Sixty-seveu delegates
arose, and when those born abroad
were asked to rise, ten men re-
sponded. The men were asked what
sort of persons we're filling their places
on the Central road. So far as they
knew personally, the general tenor of
their remarks was that their places were
mostly filled by former employees who
had been discharged for incompetency,
~intoxication and dishonesty. A pream-
BILE and resolution was adopted calling
upon the state board of arbitration to or,
der a prompt investigation of the exist
ing difficulties. r.
A MASS MEETING.
The meeting held in the rink tonight
drew a larger crowd than has ever be-
fore entered the building at one time.
No one could get in the hall after the
meeting was called to order. At least
1000 men we're present. T. V. Powderly
entered the hall amid enthusiastic and
prolonged applause. District Workman
Lee called the meeting to order, intro
ducing Master Workman Dulin of the
local assembly. Later he introduced A.
W. Wright, member of the general exec
utive board, who was followed by T. B.
Mcguire, and T. V. Powderly. At
the conclusion of his remarks Powderly
offered the following resolution, which
was adopted by a storm of unanimous
a%pprovaIs: "Resolved, That it is the
sense of this meeting that the introduce
ton of armed force in the state of New
York IN time of peace is an outrage
against che laws of our state, is in VIOLA
ton of every law of humanity, and should
be forever stopped at the next session of
the legislature of New York state" At
ter the mass meeting, Powderly and his
associates repaired again to Stanwix hall
where a meeting of the general executive
board to decide on a division of labor for
Hayes, Holland, Wright and Devlin in
caring for the future of the strike. Pow
derby will leave in the morning for New
York, where he will address another big
meeting in the evening n Union Square.
STRIKERS ~RE1NsTATED. a5*#
ALBANY, Aug. Is. Superintendent
Hammond said he visited the Green la
land yards to-day where twenty-five Of
the strikers waited upon him and asked
that they be reinstated. Fifteen Of them
were taken back. Through freights are
moving on the D. & H., but no local
freights to speak of has been moving
since Saturday noon. Superintendent
Hammond says if the strikers in the Al
bany yards hold out much longer their
places will be filed by men who, he says,
are waiting to take their places. The
pay car of the Central arrived to-day,
and all strikers who were employed out.
side Of the shops were paid off. The lat.
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