The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-13
STRIKES DECLARED OBSOLETE
General W. orthy Foreman Bishop Expresses
Himself Warmly.

Rochester, N Y, Nov. 12.-General
| Worthy Foreman Bishop of the knights
| Of Labor, of Boston, today in his report
| which contains strong recommendations
| as to strikes, said the competition from
| Oriental nations promised very quick
| ly to assume alarming proportions.
THE japanese are to be particularly
feared" it says, from the fact that
their skill and capacity to produce is
admittedly almost as great as that OF
| our best workmen.''
Japan itself furnishes no adequate
home market for even such products as
she now turns out, and the only pos
sisle profit from their labor will come
from competition with the men in COM
paratively well paid countries, with
nigh individual consumptive capacity.
No tariff lower than an actual prohibi-
tive one will serve to protect us from
labor which can sustain productive en-
ergy upon an average compensation of
ten cents a day"
The report severely criticises the ".
c. T. T., the Salvation Army, and 9TH
ers for bringing Armenians here to com
pete with American workmen but at the
same time, however, expresses great
sympathy for the Armenians. It dis
cusses the immigration question briefly
and says:
Personally, I favor the McCall-Cor-
iiss bill, with the Lode amendment, pro-
viding for an educational test for all
measure were feasible, 1 would favor
that in preference"
Commenting on report on immigra-
ton, it seid: ITO per cent of the
Portuguese. t5.59 of the italians, 47.sS of
the Poles, 45.05 per cent of the Austr;-
-Hungarians and LIS per cent of the
Russians would have been excluded un-
der the Lodge-Corliss bill"
The question of government owner
ship of railroads and telegraph and tel
ephone is here taken up and strongly
urged.
Continuing, the report discusses
strikes and sympathetic strikes and,
protests against them. 1t dwells at
length upon the pending effort to or
ganize the Interna tional Longshorer,en
and urges that the folly of the whole
proceeding be clearly exposed"
The great changes wrought by in
ventions are referred to and the report
continues:
Under such circumstances any COM
oination, based upon the line of trade,
craft, or occupation, which has for its
main purpose an intention to force its
views upon employers through a strike,
must meet with sudden and disastrous
failure, and the picture should be paint
eo so strongly for the benefit of possi-
bic victims as TO deter as many as we
may from starting on the road TO ruin
Science has in this age. absolutely an
initiated distance. Asia and Europe
are almost as accessible to Massachu-
Setts as is California. and the obsolete
methods which the Knights of Labor
were originally formed to obviate and
supercede viii no longer serve to pro-
tect the toiler from the greed and op-
preston Of unscrupulous employers
In conclusion Mr.. Bishop says:
'The close of this general assembly
will complete my eleventh consecutive
year of duty as an officer of the Knights
Of Labor, and as my ambition does not
run in the direction Of further honors,
feel at liberty to speak more freely
upon matters affecting the organiZa-
ton than would otherwise be the case"