POW'DERLY, TERENCE VINCENT (1849—). An American labor leader, born at Carbondale, Lackawanna County. Pa. He received a common school education, in 1862 became a switchman for the Delaware and Hudson Railway, in 1S64 a car-repairer, and in 1860 an apprentice to the machinist trade in the shops of the company. In 1869 he entered the employ of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railway at Scranton, Pa. He became president of the Machinists' and Blacksmiths' National Union. held several offices in the local and district assemblies of the Knights of Labor (q.v.), and in 1879 was elected Gen eral Master Workman of the latter organization. He reorganized the order and greatly furthered its interests. but in 1893 resigned owing to in ternal differences arising from opposition to his policy. In 1878, 1880, and 1882 lie was elected Mayor of Scranton as candidate of the Labor Greenback Party, and in 1891 Republican dele gate-at-large to the projected State constitu tional convention. He studied law in 1893-94,
was admitted to the bar of Lackawanna County, Pa., in 1894, and to that of the United States Supreme Court in 1901. From 1897 until his resignation in 1902 he was United States Com missioner-General of Immigration. During the Presidential campaigns of 1890 and 1900 he ap peared as a Republican stump speaker in the West and South. He assisted in establishing the Labor Advocate at Scranton in 1877, regularly contributed to the Journal of United Labor, and wrote on economic subjects for various periodi cals of the United States and Canada. He was also known as a lecturer, and published Thirty Years of Labor: 1859-89 ; The Labor Movement: The Problem of To-Day (1890, with James and others) ; and Trusts (1892, with Dodd).