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The Knights of Labor had been founded in 1869 and its membership was largely Catholic.

Church, labor need to renew their bonds: the relationship has frayed, but efforts are underway to restore its vibrancy

The Knights of Labor made similar claims when they supported the NGCU, resolving that no " K.

A parody on the law: organized labor, the convict lease, and immigration in the making of the Texas state Capitol

Conwell; Democratic politician William Jennings Bryan; suffragist and educator Frances Willard; civil rights and suffrage activist Mary Church Terrell; radical labor organizers Marry Harris "Mother" Jones and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn; Knights of Labor leader Terence V.

The rhetoric of nineteenth-century reform

This is a story with familiar highlights, such as Terence Powderly's leadership in the Knights of Labor, the unparalleled influence of Monsignor John Ryan, and the Catholic labor schools and the priests who organized them.

Strangers in a Foreign Land: The Organizing of Catholic Latinos in the United States

"Jumping scales," as radical geographers put it, Palmer places the booming Kansas City area in "a world of change." The historian demonstrates how Cannon drew upon ideas from the Irish diaspora and his family's own Knights of labor and socialist past in a city in which immigrant labour mattered deeply.

No glory: one Communist's struggle in difficult times

Healy and union leader Sigismund Danielewicz made strong stands against exclusion, the labor leaders who became most powerful, like Knights of Labor president Terrence V.

Introduction

And for a brief time groups like the Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor succeeded in uniting disparate groups under the leadership of men like Uriah S.

Misled into laboring for anarchy: the Haymarket Affair is a classic example of how well-organized agitators cleverly manipulated many well-intentioned laborers into committing acts of social demolition

Though their methods differed, both the Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor (AFL) that later supplanted it sought to create among workers the equivalent of the small-town, autonomous proprietors that Thomas Jefferson and others lauded as critical for the functioning of American democracy.

Sinyai, Clayton. Schools of Democracy: A Political History of the American Labor Movement

"The Chinese Empire contains 600,000,000 inhabitants," read an 1878 Knights of Labor leaflet.

Fear of a brown planet: immigration hawks send out an SOS: "more white babies!"

In 1886, 5,000 members of the Knights of Labor conducted the first major strike, against the Iron Mountain Railroad in Arkansas.

Is labor losing its voice? Once a major force in the nation's economy and politics, unions have fallen on hard times. Can they convince a new generation of workers that they're still relevant?

Both the Knights of Labor, which was a major player from the early 1870s through the early 1890s, and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), whose star shone from 1905 through 1918, had better records on confronting white supremacy (and patriarchy).

Crisis in the U.S. labor movement: the roads not taken

He claims that the Church leadership could have done more to support the labor movement, but concedes that "[t] hey thought in terms of anti-clerical European radicals...and knew that any upheaval would be detrimental to the work of the Church." (27) Maynard applauds the effort of Cardinal James Gibbons to have the Knights of Labor exempted from the Vatican's ban on secret soci eties, and he claims that the Vatican reversed itself for the first time because of Gibbons's representations.

I. Theodore Maynard (1890-1956): a historian of American Catholicism. (Religious Historians, East and West)