Abstract

The Week

This article presents information, related to social problems of the U.S. The grievances of the trades-unions against the Knights of Labor, have been reduced to writing, in the form of several demands, and presented to the Cleveland Assembly. Some of these are, in brief, that the Knights shall not initiate any person, or persons whose trade has a national or international organization without the consent of such organization; that no person shall be initiated as a Knight, who works for less than the union scale of wages, or who has ever been convicted of "scabbing," "ratting," or embezzlement of the funds of a trade-union; and that all charters granted to assemblies having a national or international union shall be revoked. The Oleomargarine Bill afforded the U.S. House as much merriment on Thursday as any circus clown or band of burnt-cork minstrels could supply. All "bogus" articles of food and drink were sought to be added to the list of things to be taxed, such as artificial eggs, motherless chickens, watered milk, sanded sugar, glucose syrup and honey, mixed liquors, and wooden nutmegs.