Records, 1882-1902.

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Records, 1882-1902.

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Records of the Knights of Labor consisting of correspondence, announcements, convention reports, clippings, and blank secretary's and treasurer's record books; including correspondence of Terrence Powderly and John Hayes and a letter book of Albert A. Carlton.

0.5 c.f. (1 archives box and 1 volume)

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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SNAC Resource ID: 6849355

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Powderly, Terrence Vincent, 1849-1924.

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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...

Carlton, Albert A.

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Hayes, John William, 1854-1942

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John Hayes was born in Philadelphia the day after Christmas, December 26, 1854. He lived with his Irish immigrant parents in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, until he moved to Illinois and worked briefly as a farm hand in 1871. Later that year he moved to Ohio and worked for a short period of time as a brakeman for the Dayton and Michigan Railroad. An unemployed Hayes moved back with his family who had resettled in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The following year (1872) Hayes obtained a position as a br...