Sunday morning globe., 1901-09-01
Astounding Disclosures Revealing The Deals, Schemes and HaluatOB
Of The KNIGHTS Of Labor and Letter Carriers Association.

At the twelfth annual convention of
the National Association Of Letter Car
riers, which opens at Chattanooga,
Tenn, on Labor Day, President John
N. Parsons will have the fight Of his
life either for reelection or election to
new berth, to which a few Of his
many old-time friends, who are still
under his hypnotic influence, hope to
have created especially for him, Com
pared to what is ahead Of him that
go" between him and Secretary Hayes,
of the Knights of Labor, is a feather
duster affair. And yet, a statement Of
that case, which Parsons, with Pitts
burg money, still keeps in the courts
of the District of Columbia, would be
interesting reading. But want Of space
forbids extended reference to it at this
time. Hayes has outpointed him in
every brush, mopped the floor with
him, and no hydrant water was used.
Even Parsons, when egged on, can
show some fight. Both are after blood.
hayes will win out, even If he has
only one arm. What the letter car
riers, for their own preservation as an
OI FERTILIZATION VI any cal AAAAg AuNAAN use
to themselves, will do with the man
who has played fast and loose with
them for many years, is what will agi-
tate Chattanooga's visitors this week.
The bane of organized labor yesterday,
to-day and tomorrow was, is and will
be INSCRIPTIONS leadership, cunning,
crafty, glibtongued mOuthers, tinseled
orators at a gathering Of working men,
but Of little use I'm performing work
that would benefit those they pretend
to make Sacrifices to represent. Pity
tbs It's true.
When they Joined the organization,
most of them doubtless meant well by
their fellows and were unselish. But
with power in their hands, only too
many of them too quickly betray their
trust for pelf political place or pres
tige-for self. Some succeed in deceiv-
ing their fellows for long time Slow
ly is their cunning discovered. They
keep no bank accOunts-checks tell
tales. Their tracks are as smooth as
their tongues. Their talk is plausible.
Parsons can talk more and say less
than any man who ever pretended to
represent organized labor in any ca
pacity. That's his wellearned reputa-
tion. The letter carriers have been
slow in sizing him up. He has thrown
dust in their eyes for years. What he
can not rule he wants to ruin. He had
the colossal nerve to aspire to Con-
gresham Quiggs (New York City,
seat. The first trifie in the way was
the Republicans OF Quigg's New York
gnk ah 10 Of
didn't know II Parsons was a Repub-
lican. He was all things to all men.
He was a Bryan man while he was
in the pay of Chairman Quigg, Of the
4.epublican county committee. How he
'hoodooed" ex-POstmaster Dayton, OF
New York City, out Of a nomination
for a judgeship in that city--a nomina.
tion that would have insured election
would prove interesting reading,
Croker didn't do a thing to him. Oh,
mo- Parsons deceived himself into the
belief that the king Of Tammany Hall
knew nothing Of his crooked political
record, which he bent so hard In that
recent third party labor movement in
New York that he found II wholesome
to move his residence to Washington.
"a htNNnA anu pei oheAnANN ANhahAA ANA
that move was an irresistible deter
nination to be nearer the legislative
fund Of the Letter Carriers Associa-
ton. Before throwing the search.llght
on his relations with the letter car
riers, let us see what his rule Of the
Knights OF Labor for nearly four years
has done for that once grand and
strong organization-weakened almost
disrupted itl Cunning as is Parsons,
Secretary Hayes was too smart for
him The former had bitten off more
than he could chew. The iirst step In
his move against Hayes was false and
lead to his undoing in the X, Of l.. He
Is an expelled member to-day. He vio-
lated the constitution OF the order by
seeking the courts for an alleged nee
essary cure, when the remedy was pre-
scribed I'm that same constitution. He
has violated the constitution and in
structions Of the Letter Carriers As
sociauon time after time, thus far with
lmpunity. For three years he has not
been legally president OF that organi-
sation He has held the Office for that
lime in direct and fragrant violation |