The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-01-19
Rival Order OF The
Knights Of Labor
1t Will BE Organized Next Month at a
Convention in Columbus, 0.
POWDERLY WANTED AS LEADER
Courts viii BE Asked to Give the New
Organization the Property of the
knights in Philadelphia A
Lively Fight Ahead.

There are very dark clouds shading
the horizon in knights of Labor circles,
and the threatening forecast points
to either the complete reconstruction
OF the prominent labor organization or
most rancorous dssension accompa-
MED by, perhaps, the entire oblitera-
tion of the present anti-PoWderiy OIL
cials of the general executive board
District Assembly No. 1G Is the pre-
mier fomentor and its example has been
followed, it Is claimed, by about
50 per cent. of the district assemblies
of the United States and Canada. AS
| sembly No. lG is made up of local or
CARNATIONS of the Knights of Labor
of northeastern Pennsylvania and EN-
! braces the territory covered by Lack
awanna, LuZerne, Wyoming, Susque-
! hanna, and Wayne counties. Timothy
ID. Hayes, of Dickson City, Is district
master workman.
; There are in the neighborhood of
twenty local assemblies in the district
! and delegates from each meet every
, three months in quarterly convention.
! The last convention of District l6 was
! held in this city on Dec. Is, of last year,
which is the date of the beginning OF
! the trouble In order to understand
/ what led to this trouble, it will be ne
! cCssary to revert to the last national
convention of the Knights held at New
! Orleans.
The Delegate Was Ignored.
District Assembly No. l6 elected n
! delegate to that convention ac-
cording to the rules of the Organi2a-
ton and he was fitted out with regular
| ly signed credentials, expense money,
and a mileage ticket. When he got to
| New Orleans and presented his papers,
he was refused a seat in the convention
on no other grounds than that he Was
q friends of General Master Workman
! POwderly. These statements are au-
thori2ed by Information received from
an executive officer of District Assem-
ly No. 49, 1t is said that District As
scmbly No. 22O of Chicago elected u
! Powderly delegate, but that a member
of that assembly, who did not aspire
for delegate at all, was admitted to q
seat and vote upon credentials that
We're forged.
When District Assembly No. 16 met
in this city last December, one of the
| tnlnES llldl WAS uOne was lHe. rel uStil
to pay any more per capita tax into the
funds of the general executive board.
This action was the result of the denial
of the powers that be to allow the dis
trict's delegate a seat in the New Or
leans convention. The district set up
the same claim as the revolutionary
forefathers, "TaXation without repre-
sentation." \ set of resolutions were
drafted cOndemning the present officers
of the general executive boarda and prom
Using to pay no more per capita tax
while they remained in power.
Others Fell Into Line.
This determined stand had the effect
Of making other district assemblies
throughout the United States and Cam
ada take up a similar stand. with the
result that more than eighty of them
passed resolutions condemning the
Hayes-Martin regime and vowing
solemn threats to oust that faction
from root to branch from any cOnncc-
ton with leadership in the knights uf
Labor. All the protesting assemblies
of the country Immediately began to
communicate with one another and
the outcome was that they agreed to