| Show I UNITED WE STAND I ten Thousand Knights of Labor Join I Hands With S5000 Texas I Granger The New York Labor Assembly Meet Report find Endorse the Labor I Record of Governor Hill I The British Press Pleased With Min I inter Phelps Happy Speech to English Workmen Knights and Farmers Fuse in Texas GALVESION Texas September INews from Dallas says The Knights of Labor today perfected the organization of the I Grand Assembly by electing a full set of i officers with Henry Golden of Galveston as Master Workman It became known during dur-ing the day that the Assembly was waited upon by a committee of five from the Farmers Union headed by President Dun lap with a proposition to fuse with the latter lat-ter which was accepted A comparison of notes showed that the Knights of Labor only organized in Texas in last March have bince increased their membership to almost al-most 10000 while the Farmers Union had a membership of nearly 35000 in Texas with a prospect of controlling 85 per cent of the farmers in six years The harmony existing exist-ing between agriculture and labor is said to have been proved by a proposition from the farmers to back the Knights of Labor with as much as 10000 a week to secure a successful suc-cessful conduct of the strike The fusion rests on the understanding that PARTIES AND POLITICIANS ABE TO UK IGNORED In the united effort to save labor and production pro-duction by the subordination of corporations and destruction of syndicates rings corners and other aids to the accumulation of great wealth All classes are admissible to membership bership except bankers lawyers saloonkeepers saloon-keepers gamblers and professional politicians poli-ticians It is claimed by the delegates that the aim of the Assembly is not to promote strikes but to prevent them by arbitration to which end committees with controlling powers over local assemblies will be created Where the work of arbitrators appointed from opposing op-posing interests is not satisfactory DISINTERESTED PARTIES ABE TO BE CALLED IN Whose decision must be accepted but should I corporations refuse their consent to arbi trate then strikes may be inaugurated as a I last resort The leading members of the organization or-ganization say there will be no fusion with either Prohibitionists or antiProhibition I ists and the rapid growth of the order pre I eludes a probability of collusion with jury of j I the existing great parties |
