Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1886 — INDUSTRIAL NOTES. [ARTICLE]

INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

The International Typographical Union held its yearly meeting at Pittsburgh last v?eek. Wilham Amison, of Nashville, Tenn., was elected President over Charles G. Stivers, of Chicago, the result being taken to mean that the gathering was in favor of joining the Knights of Labor. President Witter's report opposes amalgamation with the Knights of Labor. The next convention will be held in Buffalo. Mr. James/J. Bailey; of Philadelphia, foreman of the Public 'Ledger, read a letter to the convention from George Wi Childs, proprietor of that paper, expressing his interest in workingmen, and especially in printers, and inclosing a .check for $16,000, of which $5,000 was given by the writer and $5,000 by A; J. Drexel. No conditions accompanied the gift except that it be used for the good of the craft in whatever manner the convention may see tit..... General Master Workman Powderly has returned to his home at Scranton, Pa., from fee Cleveland Convention of the Knights of Labor, and has been interviewed. He says the statement that the communistic element captured the convention is ridiculous for the reason that the convention granted every request he made except that of accepting his resignation, which the delegates absolutely refused. He wanted to resign health was breaking down under the heavy work which he was called upon to perform. ... At Stoneham, Mass., half the members of Company H, of the Sixth Regiment, on their way to the State muster-ground, thrice refused to enter the horse-ears because of n boycott by the Knights of Labor. A court-martial is certain to result It transpires tiiat General Master Workman Powderly. K. of L., offered his resignation at Cleveland, but the convention would not receive it.' He was also proffered a large increase of salary, but declined to accept the advance.-... H. D. Davis, Local Master Workman K. of L.. was convicted at Union, Mo., of obstructing the track during the railroad strike, and sentenced to ’ two years in the penitentiary. The business failures occurring throughout the country during last week, as reported to R. G. Dun Co., number for the United States ISO. and for Canada 29, or a total of 209 failures, as compared with a total of 187 the previous week and 181 the week before that. The Central Labor Union of New York City, said to’be the most powerful executive body in the ranks of organized labor, has gone to pieces... .The delegates to the national convention of telegraghers, in session at St. Louis, resolved to joi(L the Knights of Labor. Before the adjournment of the International Typographical Union, at Pittsburgh, the special committee on the question of the Union joining the Knights of Labor I presented a long report, which was adopted. ' The report, after complimenting the I Knights of Labor in the highest terms, an<f , pledging thenl support, demands/first, that' . the Knights of Labor will not attempt to dictate the conrse-of—action of distinctive trades; second, that they will not eovefc with the shield of the order any man' who has been found unworthy to mingle with the members of the Union as a fellow-craftsman in good standing. The report of the special committee on the use of stereotype plate matter was approved. The report recommends that the executive council endeavor to unionize all firms manufacturing plates, and that all non-union finns-nbe published; that the local unions be required to interdict the use of plates where a reduction of the working

force will ensue;' newspapers must be prohibited from using news plates manufactured in non-union offices, or else b® declared unfair; no subordinate union can bike any action regarding the use <?f plates without the consent of the executive council. '