Reminiscences of the Knights of Labor and the American Railway Union, 1936 June 22.

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Reminiscences of the Knights of Labor and the American Railway Union, 1936 June 22.

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Typed reminiscences, as told to Irene O. Persons, about Ferguson's union activity in Minnesota. The first reminiscence (7 leaves) is of the Knights of Labor and its local in Brainerd, Minnesota, during the 1880s. Ferguson was working as a machinist in Brainerd at that time. The second reminiscence (3 leaves) is about the American Railway Union and its St. Paul, Minnesota organization between 1893 and 1894. Ferguson was president of the American Railway Union in St. Paul.

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Minnesota Historical Society, Division of Archives and Manuscripts

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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...

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