Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-17
COMMENDS PRESIDENT
ADDRESS By JOHN W. HAYES, 4.
OF L, MASTER WORKMAN.
Annual Meeting Of the Organization
Election of Officers - Business
Matters Considered.

President Roosevelt and many members
Of Congress are commended In the annual
report of John W. Hayes. general master
workman. of the knights of Labor, deiiv-
cred at the yearly convention of that or
ganization just ended here. The meeting
was an important one, and at its conc1ud-
ing session Mr. Hayes was reelected gen.
eral master workman.
s The other officers elected were 1. D.
Chamberlain of Colorado, general secre-
tary-treasurer; l. H. Sanderson Of Toronto,
Canada; general worthy foreman; E. E..
Mckay of Brooklyn, F. ]. Mcclure of New
York and A. ]. volIer of Jersey City, men,
bers of the general executive board.
3 Resolutions intended to promote the
growth of the organization were adopted;
also resolutions defining the position of the
organiza ton to be in favor of restricted
use of the injunction in labor disputes, but,
not in favor of entirely abolishing injunc-
lions.
/ Position Of K. Of L.
In his annual address General Master
Workman Hayes spoke with pride OF the
position now occupied by the knights of
Labor after thirty-eight years of existence,
while cautioning the general assembly to
take no action that Twill dim this glorious
record or cause mankind to lose conf
dence in our order"
After dwelling upon "labor's rights in
Congress-" the report says:
There is very little favorable considera-
ton given to labor measures or to the men
chosen to represent organization by either
democrats or republicans as such," he says,
but much of the criticism of your repre-
sentatives, because he has not secured
certain legislation that has been expected.
Is unfair and helps to cripple his work. Our
knowledge of many of the members con-
nected with both the great political parties.
r. 6npI fufr IvY our 20
honestly in the interest of labor measures
when properly presented, eompels us In
justice to them to make this statement
me report commends the passage Of the
employers liability act and the attiture
OF President Roosevelt. 1t barely refers to
the meat inspection act; then, passing to
the amended immigration bill, declares
that labor should do all In its power to Sc
cure its passage
Anti-1njunction Act.
Master Workman Hayes has this to say
in regard to the anti-njunction act:
1.-The Knights of Labor have for years
advocated the very just and reasonable
measure first introduced by Mr. Ridgway,
then by Mr.. Grosvenor and finally by Mr.
Little; and I recommend that this general
assembly urge all members of the order
70 continue their advocacy of 1t until it
shall have become the law of the land"
The present eight-hour law Is compared
uuldNOTdpy WIN IndC signed Dy PRESIDENT
johnson. June %, 1868; but Mr.. Hayes rec
Ommends:
I've would better wait the action of the
United States Supreme Court, to whom the
present act will eventually be submitted for
decision as to its constitutionaity, be-
fore committing ourselves to something pro-
posed to take its place."
''The subterfuge committee Is the way
Mr. Hayes defines the House committee on
labor. 1t was formed. he added, that bun
combe bills may be put into its NAV to be
smothered and buried"
Postal Savings Bank Advocated.
The report advocates the establishment
Of a postal savings bank, and declares that
1--WE need more laws on the subject for the
protection of the public lands" while COM
mending the recent order Of the President
In regard to coal and mineral lands.
TRUSTS and monopolies,'' continues the
report, constitute the worst feature of our
civilization at the present juncture. Until
the new legislation shall have been con-
strued by the courts it will be impossible to
say whether it will or will not prove suffi-
Client. AS far as it goes it should meet our
approval
The master workman recommends the in
corporation of all unions, directing atten-
ton to the fact that voluntary associations,
of workingmen have no legal status.
I'VE, as Knights of Labor" he says,
should not shift the responsibility for our
acts on the individual. but place it where
it properly and legally beiongs-upon the
organization"
The report closes with strong appeal to
favor restricted immigration laws that shall
not only exclude the Japanese and the Hin
docs. but shall restrict "all immigration to
persons who possess on their arrival money
or property exceeding 81. GOO in value and
such knowledge of the English language as
to enable them to read the United States
Constitution and laws with ease and
fluency. We do not want hordes of ignorant
paupers imported from any quarter of the
globe