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Show a KEEP AWAY, KEEP AWAY. An Official "Warning from Powderly's Organ to Knights of Labor. Philadelphia. May 24. The coming issue of the official journal of the Knights of Labor will contain another large batch of warnings to workingmen to keep away from Tarious places. On2 states that Little Rock and other places in Arkansas should be shunned by every one seeking work as these places arc crowded with idle men, many of them on the verge of starvation. The cotton-oil mills are closed down for the summer leaving hundreds of men out of employ-men:. employ-men:. Mine laborers are requested to stay-away stay-away from the Co'iir d'Alene mines of Idaho and from the mines at f'inevile, Kentucky, at both of which places there is a lock-out, as well as from the mines at Huntington, Arkansas, which place is crowded with idle men. Mechanics and laborers are warned to stay away from Carthage andTorkio, Mo., Benton Harbor, Mich., and Charleston, 111. The Missouri points named, it is claimed, are flooded with men from Kansas and southern Arkansas, and much suffering caused by lack of work is unavoidable. - |