Knights of Labor (jun 7, 1869 – nov 14, 1886)
Description:
|ORIGINS:| secret society to avoid detection by employers | PUBLIC: |1881 under Terrence V. Powderly, opening membership to all workers including blacks and women | GOALS:| self employment, abolition child labor, abolition trusts and monopolies | STRATEGY: | settle disputes by 'arbitration' not strikes |EFFECTIVENESS:| v loosely organized so couldn't control local units that decided to strike | grew rapidly and declined rapidly, esp after violence of Haymarket riot 1886 tarnished reputationAdded to timeline:
Date:
jun 7, 1869
nov 14, 1886
~ 17 years