Knights of Labour

On 1 May 1886, during national strikes for an eight-hour day called by the Knights of Labour, Chicago police attacked striking workers, killing six.

ANC Today 2003

Knights of Labour, taking the American secret society of that name as their model, and declared 'perpetual war and opposition to the encroachment of monopoly and organized capital'.

Class & Colour in South Africa 1850-1950 Ray Esther 1969

The Knights of Labour blamed De Beers, 'that great monopoly', and the 'wealthy, overestimated, disappointing politician' Rhodes for the depressed state of the working classes during the collapse of the first gold boom.

Class & Colour in South Africa 1850-1950 Ray Esther 1969

In three States the militia have been called out to protect property and liberty, the rights of capital, the freedom of labour, the interest of the public, against a class insurrection; the public authorities have been forcibly resisted, and lives have been lost in a skirmish with fire-arms between the _posse_ of the Sheriff and the insurgent Knights of Labour.

The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 Various

Cardinal Gibbons, towards the Knights of Labour won him general approval.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

I joined the Knights of Labour in that city, an organization then in its prime of strength, but they would not touch it.

From the Bottom Up Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941 1910

a very recent date, all sorts of unions were prosecuted as conspiracies; and that nevertheless they exist everywhere, even though they must often take the form of secret societies; while the extension and the force of labour organizations, and especially of the Knights of Labour, in the United States and in

Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin 1881