The evening times., 1897-07-21
OPPOSITION TO POVDERLY
An Editorial in the Knights Of
Labor Journal.
NomIuatfon Not q Recognition Of Or
gapized Labor-Editor Says He
Will Not Be Confirmed.

Henry Martin, member of the knights Of
Labor executive board and editor Of the
Journal, the organ of the order, declares
today as s, result or the warm crusade
against PowderIy's nomination that ma.
jority of the Senate has given assurances
that the nomination will not be conf rnied
this session. He shys every Senator has
been polled ON this question, and Powder
Iy's defeat is certain. To correct an erro-
neous impression regar ding the attitude
of the Knights on this matter, Mr.. Martin
explains that the order viii not oppose
any man for immigration commissioner
who is not All ayowed enemy OF organized
1aboI
Mr.. Martin has giyeR,to The Times an
advance proof OF an editorial ON the can
didacy of Terence .V.,P'owderly for COM
missioner OF immigration. This editorial
will aIpear In the issue of the Journal TO
morrow and is as follows:
1t was the influence OF organized Iaoot
that most potently worked IoT the enact
meut OF the .lmmlSrition iaw WHICH e'1
commissioner of imnlgrauon is e4pecteu
10 enforce and carry out. Hence Organized
labor has a direct and Important interest
In seeing that these laws are stiicuy'
and thoroughly enforced.
The era ton la ws were not enacted
as party legislation, and no one patty
should make the com mlsslonersnlp OF
Immigration a mere reward fCr party
service without regard to what the effect
Will be on the interests OF labor.
The organized wCrkinginen OF the coun-
try, almost to man, without regard TO
party have entered their most emphatic
prutest against the appointment and con-
f1rination OF 7. v. Pow wdehy for COIN
missioner.
For the rea sons above stated the voiceof
organized labor should have much weight
both with the Senate and President III
this matter. !
Tne cl;.ull tnat the appointment Of Pow
derly is a recognition or organized labor is
utterly without foundation. Mr.. Powderly
was long ago suspended from membership
in the Knights of Labor for the very bestOf
reasons And NO man who has his con-
necuion with a labor organization severed
under such circumstances as Mr.. Pow
deTiy's connection with the Knights OF
Labor was severed, Is a proper man to De
placed In great position of Government
trust, as IN any way representing labor.
Nor is Mr.. Powderiy's unfitness confined
To the matters above enumerated.
We are Informed that Mr. Powderly is
today member OF "a law firm in Scranton,
Pa, which receives several thousa nd dollars
per year fees from one of the great coal
and iron corporations aud also act for one
or the great railroad compauies Now
both these corporations have a direct and
inercenary interest in having the immigra-
ton laws violated and evaded every day
In the year. They both employ large num-
bers or poor laburers who come In as i'm
migrants and displace American labor
10 the proflt or these corporations and the
injury or American labor Nothing could
DC more grossly against public policy and
IN more utter disregard of the public in
oerestS than to appoint railway and coal
iilhe corporation lawyer To the position of
general or imm grafton