John P. McGaughey papers, 1878-1917.

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John P. McGaughey papers, 1878-1917.

Correspondence (1878-1891), pamphlets, and clippings of this district master workman of the Knights of Labor (1882-1890), deputy commissioner of labor statistics for Minnesota (1889-1891), and the organizer of the Minneapolis Trades and Labor Assembly.

0.2 cu. ft. (1 box, containing 1 v. and 3 folders).

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SNAC Resource ID: 6688840

Minnesota Historical Society Library

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Trades and Labor Assembly of Minneapolis and Hennepin County

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McGaughey, John P., 1853-

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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...