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Stephens (1821 - 1882) was a U.S. labor leader. He led nine Philadelphia garment workers to found the Knights of Labor in 1869, a more successful early national union. 1869 (United States) Uriah Smith Stephens organized a new union known as the Knights of Labor. [18] 1869 (United States) Collar Laundry Union Strike in Troy, New York. [18]
The Knights of Labor (K of L), officially the Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor, was an American labor federation that was active in the late 19th century, especially the 1880s. It operated in the United States as well in Canada, [ 1 ] and had chapters also in Great Britain and Australia. [ 2 ]
Uriah Smith Stephens (August 3, 1821 – February 13, 1882) was an American labor leader. He was most notable for his leadership of nine Philadelphia garment workers in founding the Knights of Labor in 1869, a successful early American labor union.
By 1890, membership in the Knights of Labor had plummeted by 90 percent. Employers adopted a model for stamping out strikes that called for holding firm and calling for government troops. While the collapse of the railroad strike set the American labor movement back, alleged organizational problems within the Knights of Labor also became apparent.
Terence Vincent Powderly (January 22, 1849 – June 24, 1924) was an American labor union leader, politician and attorney, best known as head of the Knights of Labor in the late 1880s. Born in Carbondale, Pennsylvania , he was later elected mayor of Scranton, Pennsylvania , for three 2-year terms, starting in 1878.
A 'labor federation' is a group of unions or labor organizations that are in some sense coordinated. [citation needed] The terminology used to identify such organizations grows out of usage, and has sometimes been imprecise; For example, according to Paul Frederick Brissenden nationals are sometimes named internationals, federations are named unions, etc. [1]
In 1874, McNeill served as a delegate to a labor congress in Rochester, New York, for which he wrote a declaration of principles which was later adopted by the Knights of Labor. [2] He would himself join the Knights in 1883, assuming a prominent role in the leadership of District 30, the largest division of that organization. [ 2 ]
James Richard Sovereign (May 1854 – December 16, 1928) was an American labor unionist. Born in Grant County, Wisconsin , Sovereign grew up in Illinois, where his family farmed. He worked as a cattle rancher, then in bridge and tunnel construction, before in 1874 becoming a marble cutter, settling in Iowa.