Telegram-herald., 1890-08-08

brotherhood VI Ia l-abor.........-.. lJJ, ,OOJ
That is pretty good band of wage
workers, bat II is oaly a small proper
tion of the whole, the entire army Of
1900, 900 or 1S,0Oo,0 900 leaving large
surplus from which any one or all
three Of these big organizations can
draw recruits. In ths fight that is 10
come many think that the new organi-
zgtion stands the best chance. The
Federation OF Labor has about reached
its full growth, so the experts say. The
Knights of Labor are struggling TO hold
their own and are not succeeding.
Meanwhile the newer organization Is
gaining men as fast as Il can take them
in. IL is an organization SO far as its
aims and scope is concerned as the
Knights of Labor were before the
tricksters, in that once wonderful
organization, to an extent ruined II.
1t is against strikes except where they
cannot be avoided. In the matter Of
shorter working hours, of restriction
of child labor, rigid factory inspection,
it's positions is similar to that of the
other organizations. 1t is not one of it's
aims to put Extraordinary power into
the hands of its general officers. Chief
Organizer Barry remem bers that il was
this that enabled clique to obtain
control of the Knights OF Labor and to
drive him and thousands of other good
men out of that order.
Now the question is. Is there room
for the new organizationl Is there
need for itl Those behind ii say that
there is both need and n field for it and
that ii will certainly succeed. II is ex-
pected to hurt the Knights of Labor
rather than the Federation of La
bor The latter is made up
OF members of trades unions aud
is strongest in the East. The
new organization is doing what
the leader of the Knights did to their
sorrow. So it is likely to attract trades
union men at the West, and in this way
it may, to some extent, interfere with
the Federation. But 1t is from tho
Knights that they hope to gain. AT
the West and Southwest Powderly and
his aids are thoroughly discredited,
while in the same locality the popular
fly of Barry is immense, il having been
won for him by his clever work on the
occasions of various strikes there, Of
which he to a certain extent had charge.
All the discontented knights are flock
ing to the new brotherhood and il is
for that reason that the members o Z
the latter hold that within year / t
- he In Il,
Barry is doing yeoman work among tho
farmers of the West. These too are dis
contented, as is evident from tho course
of their Farmers Alliance Barry ia
trying TO some extent to pool issues
with them and with considerable sue
cess. He is persistent, tireless work
er, and he not only believes in his work
but he has an addition, an old score to
settle with Master Workman Terence
Vincent Povderly, and being human he
wants to pay IL MP by building up
a better organizAti on than that man
aged by Mr Powderly, thereby depriv-
ing the latter worthy of some glory and
profit, too.
1t is not easy to build up great
labor organization and il is still harder
TO keep it going successfully after IL
has been built up. Some very able
men have gone into such movements,
have spent both time, money and labor
in them only to loose sli that they bad
invested and 20 emerge from the strug-
gle broken ia health, spirits and IA
ances II any one doubts that let him
consider the case Of that eminent aaf
honest philosopher, John SrInton. or
snv one Of half a dozen others who
might - named However. the new
orzanirstion starts out well IL bs.
become instantly popular.
The struggle vlll bs between three
gisuts.