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An 8 page paper which examines the history of the Knights of Labor and primarily their involvement in northeast Wisconsin. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Garment Cutters Association of Philadelphia" (The Noble Order of the Knights of Labor, 2006). The Knights of Labor was a labor organization that was open to many different types of
working people, although it excluded doctors, stockbrokers, bankers, liquor manufacturers and lawyers (The Noble Order of the Knights of Labor, 2006). It was essentially a secret organization and an organization
which was the first labor union to actually work towards womens rights (The Noble Order of the Knights of Labor, 2006). The following paper examines some of their history and
focuses primarily on the Knights of Labor in Northeast Wisconsin. Knights of Labor As mentioned, the Knights of Labor was something of a secretive organization. But, with the
election of one leader, Terence Powderly in 1881, it became more public (The Noble Order of the Knights of Labor, 2006). At that point it was believed the organization had
as many as 700,000 members, a number which slowly began to decline after the secrecy was no longer part of the organization and also following the emergence of "American Federation
of Labour in 1886" (The Noble Order of the Knights of Labor, 2006). As is perhaps the case with all labor movements, the Knights of Labor had many supporters
as well as individuals who felt that the Knights of Labor were wrong in their focus and action. One such individual, Hugh Clews in 1886, noted the following negative perspectives
of the Knights of Labor: "The Knights of Labor have undertaken to test, upon a large scale, the application of compulsion as a means of enforcing their demands...The labor disease
must soon end one way or another. The demands of the Knights of Labor and their sympathizers, whether openly expressed or temporarily concealed, are so utterly revolutionary of the inalienable
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