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Show THE ltXIOIITS or UBOS. rowderlT ToathMsn ln rolley'' Ihs Government. Desveb, Nov. 11. The general assembly of Knights of Labor con-ened con-ened this morning, with about two hundred delegates present. General JIaster Workman Powderly read the annua address, afU r which the assembly adjourned until tomorrow. A public reception wss tendered the delegate this afternoon, at which several thousand people assembled. Powderly, In his annual address, touching on the economic policy of the government, said. In paiU "Wo have not, as an order, adopted a tarifl or anti tariff clause In our preamble, and I do not advise such a thlnix now. We should, however, throw open the doors of our assemblies assem-blies for discussion of this great problem, so the memLers may become be-come educated in the basis of tho principles 01 protection nuu irco trade. I recommend that on and after the 1st of January It shall be permirtible for local assemblies to dbcugs the question of which will bring the greatest good to the greatest great-est number, high tarifTor free trade. Thus we do not commit the order to either school, and jet allow our members to take up for discussion and agitation that -vital question." Mr. Powdtily dwelt at length upon the New York Central strike. He said, in part "Individual eflort In the direction of ameliorating conditions con-ditions that were not easy of cn-durancehad cn-durancehad proved abortive. Public officials were appealed to here and there, but nothing ever came of It The public press, from Buffalo to Ntw York, was, with few exceptions, excep-tions, under the influence of thu Vanderbilt system." Referring to visits of committees of tbe men to the railway officials, Powderly said: "The idea of meeting meet-ing on a Ifvel of equity with employees, em-ployees, for the purpose of discussing discuss-ing 7EBUS OF AOKEEMEST, was repugnant to men whose aristocratic aristo-cratic tendencies v. ero given birth beneath tho shaJow ot the house of Vanderbilt, and means to put a stop to these Importunities were sought for. The plan of picking oO the spokesman in order to terrify the rest was resorted to, and one afUr another was discharged, in the hope that the lesson would be of practical value to the company In terrorizing the rank and file." Befi.rrlng to his correspondence with Master Workman Ixre, Powderly Pow-derly says: "Many malicious persons per-sons and papers presumed to Interpret Inter-pret my langusge as being In favor of a conplracy to get up a strike, cither during tho presidential year or when the World's Fair Is In pro-cress. pro-cress. What I ail J was that U the organization could be kept up until the World's Fair, the 2ew lork Central would not be able to refuse nr Joint session. We see the editor of a Newi ork ?,rjer and the president of the heir J Central Railroad operallcg the wor fund to feed men and wo-n wo-n fn Jlrcland who have been ShbVd through exactly the tame ,vr al Vysieni lhat Is now lgin-nS lgin-nS nib the wurkmen of Ameri-lThat Ameri-lThat which is wun.l worthy of !Lln tbe Irfslvworkmaiwwho PiacalMt It Justice, is dsmned ffbffin America when he Mor though to keep W children eutoftieFOOliwriee ' a "ter to Prevent strikes we rnv- m?ko eTe,y preparation to make them successful when en-h? en-h? ..i!? aDd 'egilitlon in that direction must be enacted at this session or your Incoming gene ral officers must be given to understand under-stand that under no circumstances must they take part in strikes of any kind." Mr. Powderly advocated equal ."vi18 for both aexe:r "JO acceptance of the Invitation to send delegates to the next FArmers' Alliance cunven-tlon,and cunven-tlon,and co-ope ration of the Knights or Jjxbor with the various railroad erganlzatlons in the work of federa-ation. |