| Show The Knights Convention RICHMOND October Delegates to the general assembly of the Knights of Labor numbered scarcely 500 when the convention was called to order this morning Scores departed from the city on last nights train and many more will leave today Thfirn is therefore there-fore every reason for adjournment within the next thirty hours The officers offi-cers say the work of revising the laws will be taken up in regular order and pushed through to day the object being to complete all this before the close of the afternoon session Thomas ORiley of the Telegraphers District offered the following resolution resolu-tion Resolved That the organized power of the order of the Knights of Labor be directed in demanding at the hands of Congress the passage of a measure recommending t purchase under the right 01 eminent domain of the telegraph tele-graph system of the country that it is the duty of all to assist in the nomination and supporting with their votes only such candidates as will pledge their support to such a measure and that special instructions be issued to the legislative committee at Washington to agitate therefor such ownership and make governmental telegraphy one of the burning questions of the day In introducing the resolution resolu-tion OReilly called attention to the fact that telegraph lines in every country coun-try except the united States and Canada > Can-ada are owned by government and claimed that it was an absolute necessity neces-sity that the telegraph system should be controlled by the government in the public interest |
