Labor Day celebrates the American worker, but many people mark it by relaxing. Here's a look at the holiday's history and a ...

Letters from the South Grand Master Workman of the Knights of Labor, revealing that the color line still remained a serious problem, and that the Knights did not succeed in breaking down the wall ...

The Knights of Labor, on the other hand, are men of whom a large percentage are foreign born; who, representing unskilled labor, necessarily hold in their assemblies a considerable element of ...

Claudia Miner, The 1886 Convention of the Knights of Labor, Phylon (1960-), Vol. 44, No. 2 (2nd Qtr., 1983), pp. 147-159 ...

The Knights of Labor was even broader in scope than later industrial unions, which aimed to sign up all workers in an industry, such as mining or steel production. The Knights favored “a single ...

But there’s another worker who sometimes gets credit for dreaming up Labor Day—Matthew Maguire (yes, it’s confusing), who was a member of the Knights of Labor, a secret society founded in 1869.

The Knights of Labor had been founded in 1869 and its membership was largely Catholic. The grand master workman was a devout Catholic named Terence Powderly, who was also mayor of Scranton, Pa.

Knights of Labor pentagram In 1828, William Heighton, a radical shoemaker, announced to a group of Philadelphia labourers that the wage-labour system “is…an iron chain of bondage.

Knights of Labor; TIMES' Correspondence onThe sermon preached by Bishop O'Hara on the new secret organization known as the "Knights of Labor," at Scranton recently, has caused considerable ...

SOVEREIGN IS AGGRESSIVE; WOULD MAKE THE KNIGHTS OF LABOR A POLITICAL BODY. Urges Organization in Behalf of Free Silver -- Organized Opposition, He Says, Is the Only Means of Curbing the "Money Power." ...