Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1894 — AN UNCROWNED KING. [ARTICLE]

AN UNCROWNED KING.

Powderly, Wright and Quinn Excelled From the Knights of Labor. The Philadelphia correspondent of the Pittsburg Dispatch says: “Terrence V, Powderly, ex-general master workman oj the Knights of Labor, or. as he was recently termed, ‘The Uncrowned King of the Workingmen,’ A. W. Wright, of Toronto, Canada, ex-member of the general executive board of the Knights, and P. 11. Quinn, master workman of District Assembly 99, an ardent supporter of Powderly, have been unceremoniously expelled from the Knights o-f Labor. The cause of the expulsion is said to be the discovery’of the fact that these nmr have been secretly plotting and working to bring about the downfall of the new officials of the Knights. Evidence of this was presented to the board at the meeting held in Boston, continuing from Monday until Friday of last week. The charges against all three of the malcontents were secretly investigated, and, as a consequence, letters were mailed advising them of the charges against them, and it within fifteen days they do not make satisfactory answer to the general executivt board they would stand expelled, subjeci only to appeal to the General Assembly next fall.