WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
THE GRANGE AND THE POPULIST PARTY PLATFORM
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They were afraid of being arrested for criminal activity.
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They did not want other laborers joining their elite group.
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They would be fired by anti-union businesses if exposed as members
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They did not want their confidential demonstration plans revealed.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Knights of Labor was a union founded in 1869. The Knights pressed for the eight-hour work day for laborers, and embraced a vision of a society in which workers, not capitalists, would own the industries in which they labored. The Knights also sought to end child labor and convict labor.
Detailed explanation-2: -The AFL focused on winning economic benefits for its members through collective bargaining. As a federation, it represented several national craft unions that each retained autonomous operations. The Knights, by contrast, represented both craft and unskilled workers in a single national union.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor developed in response to the-increased need to protect worker interests decreased power of political machines increased demand for skilled workers decreased profitability of the agricultural sector.
Detailed explanation-4: -Interestingly, due to the Knights of Labor’s opposition to strikes, the organization experienced declining membership by the late 1880s and the early 1890s. Many of the Knights of Labor’s disgruntled members joined the American Federation of Labor, a new labor group organized in Columbus, Ohio, in 1886.