St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-11-17
LABOR KNIGHTS IN A ROW.
TREASURER HAYES CHARGED WITH
FaLSiFYiNc HIS ACCOUNTS
TO PUT POwDERLY I'm A HOLE
Today Will Determine Whether
Hayes or Powderly Will Be
Forced to Resign A Great
movement for Labor Likely to
BE the Outcome Of the Present
Meeting.

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 49, The row in
the ranks of the Knights of Labor,
which started last night with the filing
OF the report of Grand Treasurer
Hayes, was continued with great bitter
ness today and tonight. There are no
evidences of an amicable settlement.
. Inc morning session Of the convention
was taken up with routine business.
Then in the afternoon the Hayes
friction was renewed again, and very
bitter addresses were made by
A. w. Wright and John Davlin, of the
general board. disclaiming the charges.
Mr. Wright accused Mr.. Hayes of fav-
Ing false system of bookkeeping. and
said that if any unlawful expenditures
were made it was owing to that fact.
He intimatsd very strongly that Mr..
Hayes had been carried away by his en-
nifty to the general master workman to
the extent of deliberately classifying the
accounts so as to miSlead the delegates.
Mr.. Davlin continued in the same
strain, reviewing the circumstances at
tending the Knights assistance to the
C9ur d'Alene and Homestead strikers,
and said that even if all the money col
lected had not been sent them the bal
ance was simply held as loan to the
organization to be used hereafter as part
OF the strike fund.
At the morning session the following
resolutions were referred to the appro-
pirate subcommittee:
Recommending political action by
members in the interest of organized
labor.
Advocating the restriction of immi-
grafton so as to shut out undesirable
persons. Thst the saloon clause of the
constitution-which prohibits saloon
Keepers from becoming members of the
order-be modified SO that barkeepers
may be admitted under certain condi-
tons.
Concerning the relations of the order
with several establishments upon
which boycotts have been declared.
Favoring the Swiss method of legiS-
latiOn, or initiative and referendum.
On political action.
On the question OF the amalgamation
of all labor bodies into one powerful
organization.
Providing that the general officers be
selected from the four parts of the
country-north, south, east and west.
On the special work in New England,
and providing for the consolidation of
the order there into one district.
? Urging the enforcement of the con-
tract labor law.
Asking for an Increase in the pay of
letter carriers.
On the organization of the woman
shirt workers.
talIoWIng agents of the Society for the
Suppression of Vice to open maiD as
unjust.
On the organization of the coopers.
On the extension of the jurisdiction OF
District Assembly No. 147, including
Albany, n. Y.
For the better government of isolated
locals not attached to any assembly.
Providing for the organization of
political body to be known as the In
dustrial Army.
When the assembly adjourned in the
evening the delegates were as nom
commltal as on previous days.
p The scene in the corridors was not so
animated as usual, the delegates, as
a rule, seeking the seclusion
vacy of committee rooms. Mem
bers of the executive board gathered in
Congressman Davis room, where they
were closeted for an hour. Members of
finance committee were Secreted in Mr.
Hayes room with guard on the door,
Here for two hours they were engaged
III scanning his accounts. Subsequently,
it was stated that the finance committee
met and agreed that the charges were
not we'll founded.
1t is understood that Mr.. Powderly
will occupy the floor of the convention
all tomorrow, aud then the report of the
finance committee will be presented.
The executive board, it is said, will then
formally demand MIR. Hayes resigna-
ton. One of these members of the
board said this evening:
"1f the charges are dismissed. and
the counter charges maintained, gen.
eral officer not member of the general
board will be forced to resign"
Mr.. Hayes, it is said, will have docu-
mentary evidences to back up his
charges before the general assembly
tomorrow. A strong effort is being
made to save the organization in order
to make it pivot in the proposed con-
solidation with other labor organiza-
tions. That Mr.. Powderly aims to be at
there is no doubt.
One of the leading knights said to-
night that the outcome of this assembly
Will be the beginning of the greatest
movement for organized labor that this
country ever saw. Whether or not Mr..
Powderly will be the head of the move
ment, he could not say. but he did not
think that any one man would again
possess the power once enjoyed by MIR.
Powderly, and he did not think it would
be for the good of the organization to
have so much power vested in one
head.