Show POWDERLY TO GET OLD POST will be comm ss oner of immigration succeeding F P sargent washington the appointment of T V powderly as commissioner of im k 0 51 terence V powderly migration to succeed the late frank P sargent will it Is said be an bounced in a few days mr powderly was for years at the head of the knights of labor and Is now chief of the information bureau of the immigration office he was commissioner of immigration until sue ceedee by br mr sargent he and ly man J gage while the latter was sec see detary of the treasury and while the immigration bureau was a branch of the department had a disagreement which resulted in mr powderly s with drapal from the commissionership mr powderly was general master workman of the knights of labor from 1879 to 1893 and from 1878 to 1884 was mayor of scranton pa elect ed on the labor ticket he was bora born in carbondale pa in 1849 and be came a machinist in 1894 he was ad bitted to the bar in Lackawanna coun ty pennsylvania mr powderly has written often on economic topics for leading magazines and labor pub locations licati ons |