The Knights of Labor will have their annual meeting Monday, October 4 at Richmond, Virginia. Cummings is one of two delegates representing Ulster and Dutchess counties, in which the membership at present numbers 2500, and while he does not hope to have any influence on the 1000 delegates-each of whom represents 1000 members he nevertheless intends to offer at the Richmond convention a preamble and resolution which he would like to see adopted. He asks McMaster's advice on his resolution, which he reproduces at length. The preamble: Some unauthorized person claiming to be a member of the Knights of Labor has presented to Cardinal Elzear Alexander Taschereau a copy of the Union's constitution. Since this constitution was condemned by the Cardinal it would seem not to have been an authorized copy. The resolution is that the General Master Workman appoint and authorize members of the Union to lay before all Archbishops and Bishops, wherever the Union exixts, a copy of the constitution and the laws and explain them, and that otherwise these authorized members be sworn to secrecy if necessary. Cummings asks McMaster if it is wise to introduce such a resolution, and asks McMaster, that if he does think it wise, to restate it more concisely. Cummings says he has read Father Muller's book on secret societies which McMaster gave him in February 1884-very carefully, and finds nothing to bar a Catholic from joining the Knights of Labor. He deplores McMaster's deprecation of the Society, and assures him that unwelcome elements shall be removed from the Union. He indicates this as being one of the purposes of the Richmond convention, and asks what McMaster thinks of the proposed reorganization of the order, which would pattern it after the state and Federal governments, with County, State, and National assemblies. Whatever McMaster says editorially is looked upon with peculiar interest by his readers. Cummings hopes McMaster will answer his questions before September 30, and gives him permission to print any part of his letter, if he pleases, except the preamble and resolution. :: I-2-g A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo.