Knights of Labor
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The Knights of Labor, founded in 1869, became the first mass labor organization, welcoming all “producers”: skilled and unskilled, Black and white, men and women.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025
That was the case in the 1870s and 1880s, when the eight-hour day became the rallying cry for the Knights of Labor, the first truly national industrial labor union.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2024
A parade was organized by the city's Central Labor Union, a branch of the Noble Order of the Knights of Labor, a secretive labor union founded in 1869 by a clique of Philadelphia tailors.
From Slate • Sep. 4, 2015
Describe the various attempts at labor organization in this era, from the Molly Maguires to the Knights of Labor and American Federation of Labor.
From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014
She developed relationships with the women’s division of the Knights of Labor, the Universal Peach Union, and the Daughters of the American Revolution, to name a few.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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