People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1895 — SECEDE FROM THE K. OF L. [ARTICLE]

SECEDE FROM THE K. OF L.

Brass Workers Hold an Important Meeting at New Haven. New Haven, Conn., Jan. 22.—Seven-ty-six delegates of the National Trades assembly of the Knights of Labor, representing 100,000. brass workers, chiefly from Connecticut, New York arid New Jersey, met in convention here and voted to secede from the Knights of Labor and establish a new organization. Resolutions were passed condemning the action of the national, convention of the Knights of Labor in unseating legally elected delegates and seating others with no constituents for the purpose of perpetuating themselves in power.