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Peter McGuire and the Great Uprising from 1877-1910. Labor and Government positive: Labor Day negative: national and state repression of workers Knights of Labor American Federation of Labor Plumbers early success and conflict. Peter McGuire and First Labor Day Parade September 5, 1882. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Peter McGuire and the Great Uprising from 1877-1910
Labor and Government– positive: Labor Day – negative: national and state repression of
workers
Knights of Labor
American Federation of Labor
Plumbers early success and conflict
Peter McGuire and First Labor Day Parade
September 5, 1882• Previous Parades
• McGuire of Carpenters takes the lead
• Call for a Labor day of Rest
• Also need on May 1 Agitation for 8-hour Day
George Meany Memorial Archives, Peter McGuire, Box 15, Folder 27, negative #930
KOL Calling a Meeting
George Meany Memorial Archives, Schnapper, Box 4, Folder 22
• Knights of Labor 1869 Secret Society
• By 1880s Craft Unions join
• Semi-skilled & unskilled men & women join
• Often used codes & Masonic-like symbols
KOL Convention, 1886
George Meany Memorial Archives, Schnapper, Box 4, Folder 22
• Knights of Labor General Assembly, Richmond, Virginia,
October 1886• Frank M. Farrell
(left), African-American delegate
• Terrance Powderly (center), Grand Master Workman, leader of KOL
• Fitzhugh Lee, (right) governor of Virginia
• KOL ignore Trade Unionists’ demands
Haymarket Square six years after the bomb explosion
Haymarket May 4, 188610 dead & 50 injured by bomb and bullets
Injustice of trial inspired world-wide May 1 as a labor protest day
Police statue (right lower corner)
moved in 1972
Library of Congress # Z62.602756.134212
American Federation of Labor
• Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions 1881(FOOTALU)
• Conflict with Knights of Labor and various unions• Trade Union committee of KOL calls for new
organization after General Assembly ignores its concerns
• Meet in Columbus, Ohio in December 1886 and form the American Federation of Labor
• FOOTALU = Articles of Confederation Period• AFL = Constitution and birth of US
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