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Knights of Labor

LC control no.n 50061807
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Corporate name headingKnights of Labor
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Variant(s)KofL
Noble Order of the Knights of Labor
National Assembly of the Knights of Labor
Knights of Labor of America
See alsoSocialist Trade and Labor Alliance
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Beginning date1878-01-01
Found inLC manual auth. cd. (hdg.: Socialist Trade and Labor Alliance; in 1895 Daniel De Leon led a seceding faction from the Knights of Labor and founded the Socialist Trade and Labor Alliance; at Chicago in 1905, De Leon took part in the formation of the Industrial Workers of the world, the Socialist Trade and Labor Alliance being immediately merged with it) (hdg.: Knights of Labor; founded in Phila. in 1869; a general labor organization in the U.S. comprising all conditions of workmen; at first name and purposes of the organization were kept secret, but in 1882 this was abandoned; on Jan. 1, 1878, a national org. was formed; known as the National Assembly of the Knights of Labor)
Labor Unions, 1977 (Knights of Labor; variant: Noble Order of the Knights of Labor; basic organizing unit of the KofL was local assembly composed of workers in a single trade or craft)
Proceedings of the General Assembly of the Knights of Labor of America, 1887
Not found inNUCMC data from U. of Washington Lib. for Fraser, R. collection, 1905-1949 (name not given; Industrial Workers of the World)