Show I 1 HOSTILITY TO POWDERLY 1 A significant occurrence took place I 1 in baltimore at the meeting of the i i federation of labor there on 1 day night A letter wag was brought before the assembly an asking for contributions for the strikers on the new york central railroad it wai was tabled not from want of sym pathy for the strikers etri kera but because of a I suspicion that the money contributed 1 would never reach the men for whom it was intended the speakers all declared that they had every confidence in the local organization through I 1 which the money would page pass but they bad no confidence in the executive board of the knights of I 1 labor one speaker declared that powderly was the jonah of the knights of labor and hoped that I 1 I 1 y wh when e n the next I 1 assembly dropped him tb there re would bo be no whale to ta tike ke him up there is no question of the diplomatic dip 10 M a tic ability of powderly lie ile bad ban thus tu far carried the knights of labor over somo scaly difficulties As a letter writer he is isa a blooming bloomi n g success but aa an executive he has not done well by any means when his own people lose confidence in him it is time for him to stop it is clear that they at least think or is more than he ho is worth |