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Circular From Powderly

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Parent Issue
Day
20
Month
May
Year
1887
Copyright
Public Domain
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An official circular frotó Genera! Mas(cr Workman Powderly, addressed to the order of K. of h. thronghout the United States has been matle public. In it the general master workman recommends that ii iicxt Foiirth of July the members of the order, where Diere is an assembly in exislence, hokJ demonstratlona and celebrationsln honor oí tl1 birth of a people'a government. He continúes: In the line of maren, and on your stands and public placls, use only one Hag - the stars and stripes. Show to the world iliat no matter where the Knight of Labor citizen was boni, lie respecta and honors tlie United States flag. Show to the world that we are deterinlned to lind uut what s wrong in oor system of government, and that we are equally as determlned to rifilit such wrongs as may rxIsl by peaceful legitímate nioans. I delire also tlial the question of the restoratlon of the people's Landa to the care of the people be dlsonssed. l'ass resoluUona dèelarlng that the holding of from fifty to slxtj mllllons of acres of the public domalñ by aliena is sinful and un-American. Qo further and demand that the alien landlord sliall lot go his ho!d. l'ass resolutlona declaring that every acre of land aoquired by fraud, jierjury or chicanery is an acre stolen, and demand that Uie tliief be requlred to make restitutionto the people. Pass resoluüons never to take your eyes od' the land imtll one good, plaln, simple, honest lew shall govera the holding of land. whether the holderberlch orpoon Individual ör corporatlon. Make Üa land for Hie people, ander the people's laws. thequestlon of the day. It was not for air, sunshine or water alono that our fathers fought; it was for the land, and we must hold this land free from the shark and the speculator, whether native or alien. _

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Ann Arbor Democrat