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Show Fowdcriy Surprised at Brown. St. Louis, March 12. Grand Master Powderly says of Receiver Brown's telegram to him: In an editorial the Ledger advises me to go to St. Louis in order to effect a settlement. set-tlement. You will see by the telegrams that it was our intention to bring about a settlement settle-ment as soon as possible. Mr Brown has seen fit to refuse the mediation of the General Gen-eral Executive Board of Knights of Labor to secure a settlement of pending difficulties by arbitration. He must now be held responsible re-sponsible at the bar of public opinion for rejecting the overtures of those who, having as deep an interest in the welfare and prosperity of this country as Mr. Brown can possibly have, would do every- - 1 - thing in their power to not only set the idle wheels in motion, but to keep them going. I expected that Mr. Brown would have some suggestion on the remedy to offer by which the termination of this trouble could be reached, and I must confess that his reply was a surprise to me. Our board had arranged ar-ranged to have a committee go to the scene of action, but if those in authority will not meet with me, no good can come of any interference in-terference on our part. |