Show PERMANENT UNION A STEP OF GREAT IMPORTANCE TAKEN American Federation of Labor and Knights of Labor May Yet Come TogetherTwo Million Toilers Interested In-terested NEW YORK May 11The Herald this morning says A long step toward a permanent union between the American Federation Federa-tion of Labor and the Knights of Labor which together control about two million organized workmen was taken at last nights meeting of the Central Labor union which is a purely local body unattached to either but containing unions owing allegiance to both A letter was received from Samuel Sam-uel Gompers president of the Federa tion asking the Central Labor union to sink all differences and join the Federation Feder-ation When the letter was read Chas F Hoadley of the Electric Workers union a Knight of Labor warmly en dprsed i The only opponent to Mr Gompers proposition was Joly dele gate of the brewers organization a I Knight of Labor who has a grievance because the Federation once opposed a I boycott by the Knights of Labor on a I brewery in Washington A motion by II James C Edwards a third Knight of Lab r to refer President Gompers request I re-quest to affiliated unions for a vote was carried by a large majority A letter was received from district assembly 75 Knights of Labor whicHi controls the street railway union of Brooklyn alleging that President C L Rossiter of the Brooklyn Heights trolley trol-ley road violated agreements entered into with i by discriminating against union men The district assembly explained ex-plained that i did not wish to inconvenience incon-venience the public by another strike and asked that the members of the Central Labor union patronize rival roads I Peter J McGuire vice president of the American Federation of Labor wrote to warn the Central Labor union against John McLuckie formerly burgess bur-gess of Homestead Pa who is conducting con-ducting a fight against the Carnegie Iron and Steel cpmpany and collecting I money from labor unions the members > c r r < < l of which are under the impression that he is connected with the Amalgamated I Association of Iron and Steel Workers Work-ers McGuire enclosed a letter from 11 l Garland of the Amalgamated association as-sociation declaring that McLuckie is II not a member |