The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-24
ENEMYOF WORK|NGMAN
President Mckinley Denounced BY
Knights Of Labor.
HIS DEFEAT IS URGED
UNJUST TREATMENT IN CUBA
AND IDAHO.
Appeals to the Administration to
Adjust the Wrongs of Labor Or
CARNATIONS Go Unheeded, and
Their Friends Are Asked to Vote
Against Executive.

Boston, Nov. 23.-After eleven days OF
deliberation the general assembly of the
| Knights of Labor concluded its bust
ness this afternoon and adjourned tC
meet in Birmingham, Ala, in Novem-
Der, 1900
The chief feature of the closing scenes
was the adoption of resolutions con-
demning President McKinley's policy
on the trust. Imperialism and labor
questions, declaring him to be the enc
my of labor and asking labor to use its
influence and votes against him in the
coming election.
Resolutions were also adopted de-
nounciEg national banks and favoring
the abolition of indirect taxation; the
abolition of contract system on all pub
lie works; the unlimited coinage of sill
yer at the present legal ration; the es-
tablishment of a postal deposit and
savings bank at every postoffice, and
the election of the president, vice presi-
dent, supreme court judges and United
States senators by the direct vote of
the people.
a protest from district assembly 200,
of Brooklyn, against the alleged unjust
treatment by the governor general of
Cuba of labor organizations in their at
tempt to introduce an eight-hour law
and against the same treatment in af-
ldlrS at w WdTQn6T, ludHO. Drought OH
the adoption of a rather startling reso-
luton. 1t was as follows:
Vigorous Resolution Adopted.
Resolved, That the general assembly
has ample evidence that President Nc
Kinley is aware of the conditions that
exist in these places (Cuba and Ward
ner) and has. to say the least, made no
effort to redress the wrongs or to cor
rect them, although urged TO do so by
prominent labor leaders, congressman
and United States senators. and we
therefore. must recognize William Nc
Kinley as the bitter enemy of labor, and
ask labor to use its votes against him
and his associates"
The resolution was passed and the
general officers We're asked to give it
wide publicity.
On the subject of International bank
bills, the recommendations of the gen.
eral 6ecretary-tTeaSurer were concurred
in. The subject of the recommendation
was that if the bill be again presented
to congress, the members are urged to
oppose it.
: On the trust question the resolution
adopted says.
Enemy of Trusts.
Resolved, That the order .of the
knights of Labor is a mortal, enemy
of the system that is rapidly getting
the great industries of the nation under
ownership or control of large combina-
tions of capital popularity known as
trusts and we call on the order and
working people everywhere to take
ground as a unit against any political
legislative effort to foist such institu-
tions upon u.s.
The resolution on Imperialism fol-
lows:
Resolved, That the general assem-
bly, of the Knights of Labor condemns
the foreign policy of the national ad-
in its effort to subjugate
the Filipinos by conquest and opposes
the extension of our territory or gov
ernment beyond the limits of this con-
tinent. as contrary to American princi-
pies, the American peoples interest and
the interests OF the great mass of the
working people"