The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-11-22
THE LABOR QUESTION
Knights Reflect General Mas
ter Workman POwderly.
uomEsTeADERS ASK FOR WORK.
rh. Leaders Of the Strike Blacklisted-
Socialist Agitation in Germany
and England.

sr LOUIS, Nov. 2l.-The sixteenth annual
assembly of the Knights of Labor is con-
ended. proposition to strike out of the
r,attorm the demand for graduated in
sane tax led 10 another Lively debate to-
s.v and il was finally decided 20 change
the plank TO read that graduated tax be
,.vied on incomes and inheritances. A
,osoIution was adopted declaring that
~. outcome of the recent struggle
!, Homestead was TO be deplored.
/. bu, that the struggle had been of
f.r.reaching results in settling. Temporal
,lv at least, great economic questions, and
;rs.ructing the general executive board to
issue an appeal for aid for the thousands
If working people left in idleness and on
the verge of starvation.
Despite the fact that Powderly had an
couuced that he did not desire reelection,
\. vas once more named as general mas
,sr workman. Other officers elected were:
General worthy foreman, Hugh Cava-
naugh; general secretary-treasurer, John
Hayes
sr Lours, Nov. difference V. Pow
derlv. general master workman of the
Knights of Labor, has submitted to the
f-st interview he has given on some Of the
questions that are agitating working
men. What is your opinion of the
Homestead t-oubles?" he was asked.
"The Homestead troubles are as
much the result of obstinacy
as anything" he replied. Frick is
oyerbearing and tyrannical. Carnegie is
in Europe, studying the conditions of
labor there, and reports his findings to
Frick with instructions to 60 as far as pos
sibe towards establishing similar rela-
tons in this country. 1 regret that the
Amalgamated Association does not con-
s,i.ute branch of the knights of Labor
Our relations, however, are very friendly"
"Wha. do you think of the labor
situation in this country today?" at
was never better. The recent election
proyed that both Harrison and Cleveland
were good. but not better than in 1888, hut
the impression that Carnegie. and speak
of him as representing a class, was
the real opponent of Cleveland caused
hundreds of thousands who never
before gave thought to such a
thing to change their votes. That
act demonstrated that they are thinking.
They will continue to think, and in 1896
will have the Democratic party no better
than the Republican party. and will then
turn to the Peoples party as the only
friends that offer relief. The statement
before the election that l was a
pro,ectectionist was lie out of
the whole CLOTH" ''Do the knights
of LABOR cooperate with the Fedora
ton of Labor and other labor organ
isa,ions?" 1.-THE Knights of Labor CO.
operate with trades unions and all other
legitimate labor societies which are in the
interests of the labor classes, but we do
not cooperate with or recognize them, a
fact which affords an outlet for the per-
sonai spite of expelled knights now in the
American Federation of Labor" .'What
the legislation the Knights of
Labor expect from the national congress ?''
Restriction of immigration; restriction
Of railroads; transfer of telegraph lines,
under the right of eminent domain. to the
care of the people; the initiative and ref
erendum, so far as it can be applied to
national legislation; taxing all lands to
their full value for use. and such other
matters as the general assembly may
direct