The Washington times., 1895-01-20
THE DISTRICT ASSEMBLY.

THE DISTRICT ASSEMBLY.
The District Assembly held its regular
meeting last Thursday night Master Work
man Simmons and full representation OF
officers and delegates were in attendance.
Credentials from the TaiIors' Assembly were
read and accepted.
The master workman in his opening ad-
dress announced that he was making a tour
among the local assemblies and would visit
every one in this jurisdiction on their regular
meeting nights.
The master workman also announced that
an open meeting of the Suffrage Association
would be held next Monday evening.
The local assemblies having suffrage petit
tions should have them in by next Monday.
The officers-eleet were then duly installed
into their respective offices for the ensuing
term. which in the District Assembly is for
one year.
Under call Of locals it was reported that
non-union men were still at work on the
Washington Brewing Compary's new build
I'M. .in spite of the fair promises made to the
executive committee OF the District. The
matter was again referred to the executive
committee
Bakers stated that the question of wages
paid at the Skies bakery had been amicably
settled
meetings would in the future be held in
Bunchs Hall. on Eighth street, on the second
and fourth Mondays in each month. Attheir
last meeting the initiation and reinstatement
fee had been fixed at So, to take effect on and
after February 4. which would give members
in arrears and non-union mpn one more
meeting night to take advantage of the am
nesty clause which allows those in arrears
and those who desire to connect themselves
with the assembly to do so on the payment of
I 81. Notices will be sent to every member of
the craft in the city calling their attentin n to
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ruary 4,
/ The election of officers will take place at
! the next regular meeting, January 2S.
! The committee appointed TO have DR.. Kent's
! sermon on the preamble OF the Knights of
! Labor printed reported they had performed
that duty and all W as ready now for d.stri-
/ button.
| The committee appointed to act with the
| Federation committee on the getting up of a
! mass-meeting reported that the mass-meeting
| project had been dropped, and the Federation
| has decided to issue an address to the MEM
/ bers in Congress giving the reasons why Or
| ganized labor was opposed to the issuing Of
/ interest-bearing bonds.
The committee appointed to act with the
| Federation committee in making some recon-
mendations relative to the differences existing
| with the Typographical Union was granted
J one weeks further time to make its report.
/ 1t is hoped that as Typographical Union
/
| bodies some amicable settl ment may be
reached. The District committee stated that
| it would be ready to report next meeting
| whether the Federation committee were ready
| or not.
The committee on eight hour violations re-
| ported that they did not deem it expedient to
| take up cases that dated SO far back as this
case reported few weeks ago, where man
had been filling two government positions at
one time.
Serious charges against the superintendent
at Heurich's new brewery were reported
which in the opinion OF the delegates should
be criminally prosecuted.
Delegates from the Barbers' Assembly re-
ported that the following officers had been
elected for the ensuing term: Master Work
man, George W. Brown; worthy foreman,
j. e. Williams; alminer, Lewis Landrick;
recording secretary, William Sewell; finan-
cial secretary, Henry Saur; worthy guide,
Charles A. Bowman, and for judge of court,
d. ID. Stokes.
letter was read from the general secre-
tary calling attention to the false and abusive
article in the Philadelphia Press on the
Knights of Labor. As District Assembly.
No. &c, of Washington, was mentioned in said
article as about to seeede from the order it
was hoped the District would reply to it.
The recent order Of the Commissioners re-
lating to the removal of all distractions on
the sidewalks then received considerable at
teniion. The delegates thought that the
order of the Commissioners was hardly con-
sistent with their appeal to Congress, recon-
mending immediate appropriations for eharit-
able purposes. for by their recent act they
would directly be responsible for ten times
more suffering than the appropriation, il
granted. would relieve. If the stands ordered
to be removed were not q public convenience
they could not exist. for it was only by the
public patronage that the owners made a liv-
ing, which fact was evidence enough that the
public recognized them as beneficial and q
necessity. If as the Commissioners say they
were only obeying higher authority and were
compelled to issue the order, then the dele
gates were OF the opinion that, with the ap-
paling and frantis appeals made by the
charity organizations and the press for aid
for the suffering poor, the Commissioners
might with credit to themselves and in justice
to the citizens have at least delayed the order
till the winter months were over.
j The delegates then took up the all-absorb