LABRST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mass Production, Dual Unionism, Samuel Gompers
26 Dec 2017
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Class 4 february 6 2017 lecture: knights of labour: have a big but temporary impact, rise and fall started early on in philedelphia 1869, uriah stephens, 1st. Small secretive protestant society: terence powderly, president 1879, became the next president. Catholic so it was a big deal choosing him: drove real growth in the organization, great upheaval, turning point happened in 1885 with great southwestern railway. Strike of 1885: they won and things really took off which was a spike in membership. It peaked in 1885 with about 750,000 members if the knights of labour. In addition they did not tell how to organize. They let workers decide how they would organize themselves. Concerned with issues that were off the job. Created unity through weekly events and wanted to keep solidarity strong: religion started to suffer at this point. Knights taught that religion brought class distinction through sitting related to money.
