William Baillie Baird papers

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William Baillie Baird papers

1886-1927

http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/42497

William Baillie Baird was a Scottish immigrant who became a coal miner and labor organizer in western Maryland. This collection consists of 38 items, mainly correspondence, pertaining to William Baillie Baird's commission as organizer for the Knights of Labor, 1897-1898, and his interest in promoting Robert W. Price as the founder of Labor Day, 1925-1927.

4 Folders

eng, Latn

University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 11668201

University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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Baird, William Baillie

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William Baillie Baird was born in Ayshire, Scotland, in 1846. He came to the United States in 1866 and was naturalized in 1876. He married Ruth L. Womsley in 1879; there were six children born to the marriage, three of whom lived to adulthood. The Bairds settled in western Maryland and William Baird found work in the coal mines at Eckhart. It was at Eckhart that he, presumably, became a member of the Knights of Labor. During the great coal strike of 1882, Baird was among the K of L strikers ...

Knights of Labor

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Labor organization. From the description of Minutes, 1886. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122536651 From the guide to the Knights of Labor minutes, 1886, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) Organized in Philadelphia in 1869 as a general labor organization to protect and promote American laborers. One of ther goals was to prohibit the importation of foreign labor under contract. In 1880's, California's local Assemblies worked to ban use of Chinese immigrants and to pr...