The Knights of Labor (K of L), officially the Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor, was an American labor federation that was active in the late... 40 KB (4,961 words) - 22:55, 4 May 2024 |
a day be set aside to celebrate labor. "Labor Day" was promoted by the Central Labor Union and the Knights of Labor, which organized the first parade... 24 KB (2,382 words) - 01:38, 30 April 2024 |
Uriah Smith Stephens (category Knights of Labor people) was an American labor leader. He was most notable for his leadership of nine Philadelphia garment workers in founding the Knights of Labor in 1869, a successful... 18 KB (1,787 words) - 13:22, 26 October 2023 |
Ohio, in 1886 by an alliance of craft unions eager to provide mutual support and disappointed in the Knights of Labor. Samuel Gompers was elected the... 90 KB (8,078 words) - 04:02, 18 April 2024 |
Terence V. Powderly (category Knights of Labor people) June 24, 1924) was an American labor union leader, politician and attorney, best known as head of the Knights of Labor in the late 1880s. Born in Carbondale... 29 KB (3,430 words) - 09:30, 2 May 2024 |
merger of two old labor groups, the Knights of Labor Trade Assembly No. 135 and the National Progressive Miners Union. Adopting the model of the union... 55 KB (7,462 words) - 16:12, 5 April 2024 |
Roslyn, Washington (redirect from History of Roslyn, Washington) eight-hour work days and higher wages. These layoffs led to a labor strike by the Knights of Labor, which shut down the mines. Northwest Coal Company, which... 36 KB (4,566 words) - 05:48, 11 May 2024 |
is one of the few legal strategies that allow union organizers to talk with workers. Both the Knights of Labor and the Industrial Workers of the World... 4 KB (335 words) - 00:13, 15 September 2023 |
Knights of Labor. The AFL was founded as a continuation of FOOTALU, and as a rival to the now faltering Knights. The very success of the Knights of Labor... 97 KB (13,968 words) - 01:06, 28 February 2023 |
such as the Knights of Labor and the AFL (American Federation of Labor). It was led by William H. Sylvis and Andrew Cameron. The National Labor Union (NLU)... 5 KB (605 words) - 04:07, 9 May 2024 |
Initially attributed to the Knights of Labor, the expression took the form "an injury to one is the concern of all." At the suggestion of David C. Coates, the... 6 KB (851 words) - 19:58, 1 October 2023 |
International Workers' Day (redirect from International Labor Day) Encyclopedia: Origins of Labour Day". Archived from the original on 28 October 2014. Retrieved 5 September 2011. Knights of Labor. Progressive Historians... 174 KB (16,576 words) - 18:38, 7 May 2024 |
Labour Day (redirect from National Labor Day) September that year. Unions associated with the Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor in both Canada and the United States subsequently... 26 KB (2,685 words) - 06:03, 12 May 2024 |
and economic impact of the Industrial Revolution. National labor unions began to form in the post-Civil War Era. The Knights of Labor emerged as a major... 99 KB (12,330 words) - 13:26, 24 March 2024 |
Lafourche Parish, Louisiana (category 1807 establishments in the Territory of Orleans) Thibodaux Massacre. After state militia were used to suppress a massive Knights of Labor strike involving 10,000 workers in four parishes, many African Americans... 20 KB (1,545 words) - 02:38, 25 April 2024 |
Leonora Barry (category Knights of Labor people) Irish-American labor activist. As the only woman to hold national office within the Knights of Labor, she brought attention to the conditions of working women... 14 KB (1,833 words) - 10:41, 3 April 2024 |
Trade union (redirect from Criticism of labor unions) Knights of Labor, in 1869, which began to grow after 1880. Legalization occurred slowly as a result of a series of court decisions. The Federation of... 80 KB (8,884 words) - 10:30, 10 May 2024 |
Scranton, Pennsylvania (redirect from History of Scranton, Pennsylvania) 1878 they elected labor leader Terence V. Powderly of the Knights of Labor as mayor of Scranton. After that, he became national leader of the KoL, a predominately[dubious... 99 KB (10,504 words) - 22:28, 5 May 2024 |
1892 United States presidential election (category Presidencies of Grover Cleveland) and the Knights of Labor joined to form a new party called the Populist Party. It had a ticket led by former Congressman James B. Weaver of Iowa. The... 73 KB (5,572 words) - 19:42, 10 May 2024 |
Fourth Degree Knights swore an oath to exterminate Freemasons and Protestants. The Knights of Columbus vehemently denied the existence of any such oath... 101 KB (8,227 words) - 05:01, 4 May 2024 |
United Labor Party was a short-lived alliance of 115 different labor unions and labor parties including the Central Labor Union, Knights of Labor, and the... 4 KB (322 words) - 01:08, 4 May 2024 |
Mother Jones (category Child labor in the United States) shop was destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, she became an organizer for the Knights of Labor and the United Mine Workers union. In 1902, she... 44 KB (5,182 words) - 22:33, 17 April 2024 |
Haymarket affair (redirect from Site of the Haymarket Tragedy) socialist and anarchist organizations were active. Membership of the Knights of Labor, which rejected socialism and radicalism but supported the eight-hour... 85 KB (10,082 words) - 12:42, 5 May 2024 |
Jay Fox (category Members of the Communist Party USA) fall 1885. He joined the Knights of Labor in 1886 and was present at the famous strikes for the eight-hour day on May 1 and 3 of that year, as well as at... 21 KB (3,151 words) - 09:37, 18 January 2024 |