Ogden Daily Standard | 1890-09-10 | Page 4 | Hostility to Powderly

HOSTILITY TO POWDERLY A significant occurrence took place in baltimore at the meeting of the federal ion of labor there thereon on wedlee day night A letter was brought before the aaa embly asking tor for contributions for the strikers on the new york central railroad it wag was tabled not from want of sympathy for the strikers bat but because of a suspicion that the money contributed would devir never reach the men for whom it was as intended the speakers all declared that they bad had every confidence in the local organization through W which hief the money would pa but they had bad no confidence in the execl live five board of the knights of labor onn ona speaker declared that powderly was the jonah of the knights of labor L abor and hoped that when the next assembly dropped him there would be no whale to take him u up P there is no question of the diplomatic ma tic ability of row powderly derly lie ito has thus far carried the knights of labor over some scaly difficulties As a letter writer b he 0 is a blooming success but aa as an executive he be hadnot has not done well by any means when bis his own people lose confidence in him it is time for him to stop it is clear that the they ay iy at leaf least t think or is more than he lie is worth