The morning times., 1895-11-14
WITH UHBROKEH FRONT
knights of LabOr's Present A.
titude Before the World.
MIR. SOVEREIGN'S REPORT.
General Master Workman Urges an
Aggressive Report on the Foes of
the Working C!asses-Worthy Fore
man Bishop Thinks 1t Is Time TO
Attempt Control of Machine Labor.

Shortly after tue opening of the afternoon
session of the assembly of tie knights or
Labor, yesterday final action was taken
on the report of committee on credentials.
The report was adverse to the seating or
the contesting delegates and was based on
the principles Of law governing the organi-
zatiou. 1t, however, requested that Gen
eral Master Workman Sovereign issue an
order dispensing with tue rules SO as 10
allow the delegates seats i'll the assembly.
The request was consented to and tue mat
ter was satisfactorily disposed of.
A communication was received from the
District W. c. T. u, asking for an audience
for their representatives. The request
was granted, and Friday, at $50 O'Clock,
fixed for a hearing OF their delegates
Master Workman Sovereign has received
an invitation to attend the reception to De
rendered labor leader Eugene V. Debs,
at Woodstock Jail, on his release on NO
vefnber 22. If possible, It is Mr.. Sovereign's s
intention to attend the reception.
MR. soVEREIGN's REPORT.
Master Workman Sovereign then read
his annual address, as follows:
ITO the officers and members OF the
general assembly:
In the general master workman an
nual report, read at the general assembly,
which convened at Indianapolis, lnu., NO
vember l3, 1888. may be found the follow
ing words:
Many causes combined to reduce the
number of those who swore aiieSlanc 10
the principles of the Knights uf Labor. The
circulation Of false statements concerning
the strength OF the order drove away thou
sands who regarded quantity as being su-
perior 10 quality in the makeup OF the
membership of labor organization When
the rumors went forth from the enemy s
quarters that the numbers were dropping
down, those members who looked to Others
for what they should do them selves, dropped
out also.
when the divergence of opinion between
the general officers became heralded broad
cast by those who always mag gnlfied, then
the members who looked for unity among
the Officers, instead of doing their duty BY
waiting until they could replace these Of
ficerS with Others, Withdrew from the order
temporarily. The story SO often circulated
and so wonderfully nagnified OF the eN-
travagancc of the general officers, fright
ened others, and they, too, stood still un-
Ill this session would assemble. In the
ranks were men whose love Of self pre-
dominated, whose selfish desires could not
be suppressed for the commonweal and on
no occasion would they consent to sink self
for the good of all. The oft-tolG story Of
their grievances sickened and drove many
from the order.
CONSPIRACY TODESTROY THE ORDER.
If the cause above quoted had q disin-
tegrating influence on the order seSen
years ago, and had a tendency to arrest
It's onward march in the Struggle iUr inCus-
trial emancipation, what COuiu le expected
as the result OF well directed conspiracy
10 Gestroy IL, controlled and directed by men
who have served for many years ia It's high
est and most influential positions,
.sAs general assembly which
vened at New Orleans one year ago, there
were men who took part in It's sessions
by day, and went out in tie shadows OF
The night to act with q CoDclave, determined
on acknowledgment and destruction. While
pretending loyalty to the order and shedding
humid, sympathetic tears for Its cause, they
were plotting under cover of the night to
effect Its assassination in the most CO waTdly
manner known 10 intrigue and deception.
Tie doors Of thesesSion were scarcely closed
until letters were sent TO all parts OF the
country containing falsehGOd and vilifi-
cation, and urging local assemblies to pay
no more per capita tax TO the general as
sembly. Five delegates came TO that
session with l,5OO which they drew
from their constituents. ana evidence is
not wanting To convince tie most credulOus
that they were actuatcdby sinister motives.
ORGANIZED GUERILLA WARFARE.
- 1 ne eN-5enerai master workman u solicited
funds from mt tmberS under the pretense
of landing the present general officers
in Jail, ana came to New orleans with o
coterie of eX-ufficcrs and defeated CaDdi-
dates to aid in the work of disruption and
death. He was not willing to wait until
officers whom he dislikcd could he repla ccd
with others, nor would he sink self for
the good of all as expressed in his com
plants against members in his report of
1888.
He Joined the clan OF office-seeking de-
structionists who used the virtues OF the
order TO cover up their devilish treachery
and committed their crimes in the name of
Knighthood. Baffled in their every pur-
pose TO disrupt the order at New Orleans,
the band of seceders silently stole away
TO a secluded ambush and organized a
guerrilla warfare against the order they
had sworn TO support and protect. They
employed the ever willing emissarles of
putocracy and the columns of the public
press TO nialign the general officers and dis
courage the loyal and confiding members.