The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-11-22
KNIGHTS OF LABOR
AMALGANIATION OF ALL LABOR
ORGANIZATIONS
lroposed-Sovereign Delivers His An
nual Address-IIe Criticises Off
Gals for Their Actions at
Chicago Last Summer.

New Orleans, La, Nov. 15.-The knights
of Labor were in session three hours today,
adjourning just before l o'clock. They will
meet again this afternoon. The morning
session was consumed in listening to an ad-
| dress by George Howard, vice president of
the American Railway union, who was es-
pecially invited to attend the session. A
proposition was presented for the consolida-
ton of all labor organizations of the coun-
try under a single board of management
and with an amalgamation of interests.
Howard believes if such plan is adopted
| labor will be benefited and be in IL position
to more completely have their wrongs re-
dressed and more speedily obtain it. Grand
Master Workman Sovereign also spoke in
favor of the plan proposed by Howard, which
he recommended as possessing elements of
advantage that it would not be we'll to
overlook. No business was transacted dur
in gthe session, but it was a general dis
cuSsion of views on the proposition of How
ard.
The afternoon session convened at . o'clocl,
and adjourned at $50 O'Clock
Immediately after the opening of the SEES
sion, communications were read from Vice
President II. G.. Robinson, which stated that
while the f. NJ. b. A. were not of the
same order they were in sympathy with the
efforts of the Knights of Labor to CELEBRATE
| labor from the thralldom which now over
Whelms them" A telegram was also read
from Miss Francis Il. Willard, stating that
the Woman's Shristian Temperance union
would convene tomorrow.
Grand Master Workman Sovereign then
delivered his annual address, which was an
elaborate and exhaustive resume of the
work of the order from its incipiency. He
attributed the decrease in membership of
| the order to depression in business, low
| LII.
| classes. He stated that he had travelled
| 81. 46i miles since the beginning of his stew
ardShip and had organized IL new assemblies
and made 90 public addresses. He reviewed
his action of last January. when he secured
| the services of Judge G. G. Cole and filed a
bill in the district court of the District of
| Columbia setting forth special grievances of
| his order and protesting against the issuance
of bonds by the secretary of the United
States treasury. He characterized the writ
of injunction rom the United States circuit
court of the Eastern district of Wisconsin
as Il dcSpOtic injunction. Referring to the
American Railway union affiliations he adj
| viscd II coalition with this, as well as all
| labor organizations. His resume of the
| Pullman strike terminated in severe criti-
| ciSmS of Maj. Gen. John Nj. SchOheld and
| the recommendations of that officer for any
| increase of the army. together with the
action of "ChCagOS millionaire ariStOcracy,
who were permitted to present Il stand of
colors to the Fifteenth infantry" was an
| indication OF ali uneasy desire TO subjugate
labor through the military powers of the M
| ton lie urges that the assembly take
strong grounds against an increase of the
military force of the nation and that they
advocate decrease in the regular army
and the abolition of the state militia, for
| from them are coming to the surface sense
| too much of the orders time was taken up
| by minor questions and read the correspond
cncc of last month between himself and Sec
rotary r. NJ EaSlpy of the Civic Federation
I,,f Ibipupn also made n GnHrn criticism
of the banking laws. He advised few
| minor changes in the preamble of the order.
| At the close Of the address the report of
the general executive board was presented
and referred to a cOmmitte. The meeting
| then adjourned until tomorrow at 3 a. M.
The order of business for the morning session
| ing of resolutions. Al the committees have
organized and have got down to business.
REASON THEY WERE SHUT OUT. ,
| Pittsburg. Pa, Nov. 15.-The true inward
ness Of the shutting out of miners delegates
| from the knights of Labor convention in
| New Orleans" says the Chronicle Telegraph
sis well known here. It was their plan tt
| thus giving the control of the convention
James Campbell, cX-presdent of the Window
| Glass Workers association, was to be
elected general master workman and Rober
Watcheln, state factory inspector of Penn
sylvania nat onal secretary treasurer, thus
completely shutting out the present admins
tratiOn. but Sccretary-Treasurer Hayes hat
lacked over the books found the local assem-
bics composing the National Trades Assem-
bly, No. 49,, which the miners delegate
represented. had not paid dues for tW'
years past. Armed with TINS lntormatloh' ~
went into the convention and broke up tn
plans of the opposition by unSeat NJ thu
miners delegates on these grounds.
The eyacting tests applied to DR.. Price
Baking Powder n the Worlds Columbian
Exposition and the California Midwinte
Fair gave it the highest honors at both.