USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Knights of Labor, founded in 1869, was the first major labor organization in the United States. The Knights organized unskilled and skilled workers, campaigned for an eight hour workday, and aspired to form a cooperative society in which laborers owned the industries in which they worked.

Detailed explanation-2: -Possibly the first such union was the General Union of Trades, also known as the Philanthropic Society, founded in 1818 in Manchester.

Detailed explanation-3: -Southwest railroad strike of 1886 The unravelling of the strike within two months led directly to the collapse of the Knights of Labor and the formation of the American Federation of Labor.

Detailed explanation-4: -Uriah Stevens, Knights of Labor Founder Uriah S. Stephens, a descendant of early Quaker settlers in New Jersey, founded the Knights of Labor on Thanksgiving Day 1869 in Philadelphia.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Knights of Labor, formally called The Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor, were members of an American labor federation and union effort originally founded in 1869.