Show KNIGHTS OF LABOR Grand Master Workman Pow derly is Interviewed KOW5Q DEDUCE THE SURPLUS In July August and September 13080 Original Pensions Were Issued Socialist Party of the UnitedStates ST Louis Oct 2In an interview ti day Grand Master Workman Powdorly said As to the statement that tte Knightof r hive been losing power and they have no confidence in their exccu officers there is no trath in it The order has been growing rapidly within the last year and the greatest cause of its growth is the feeling that the executive board is active in a manner conducive to the best interests of the Knights J J Hollander of Jacksonville Fin said The whole animus of tie opposition to Powderly originated in the process of house cleaning which we adopted sometime some-time ego Many unruly and bad elements are being expelled Since that time they have been making war on the management of the order but with little success In the north the negroes are joining join-ing the order in great numBers There is scarcely a doubt that an alliance of some kind will be made between the Farmers alliance the wheelers and the Knights of Labor The former organizations are particularly par-ticularly strong in the southwest As to charge of extravagance on the part of Powderly in regard to the southwestern south-western strike that has been declared groundless by the authorized assemblies of the order time and again and for these men to try to say anything against his conduct con-duct now is simply absurd The GIbe Democrat gives a sensational interview with one of the Knights of Labor who claimed at last nights meeting that his name among others is attached to a document docu-ment indorsing a furlough for the chief of the secret service was a forgery Upon being questioned and with the understanding understand-ing that his name would not bo mentioned he said The names were not forgeries When we slimed them we did so with the understanding that the recommendations were to be filed in Washington for official eves only But the committee betrayed us While we signed them for the Presidents < yes we did not sign them for the public eye Three other Knights of Labor also concurred in the above story ST Louis Mo Oct Tonight General Master Workman Powderly visited the local assemblies and addressed them briefly on matters pertaining to the good of the order He was accompanied by members of the general executive board The anti Powderly demonstration at Central town hall tonight had a small attendance at-tendance Editor Detuiler of Chicago arraigned ar-raigned Powderly and the executive board for wasting the funds of the order and said that Powderly was a poor general to lead an army to victory W H Blake pictured Powderlys palace in Philadelphia and charged corruption all around |