The Capitol Syndicate's case was helped when railroad magnate Jay Gould, seeing this as another front in his counterattack against the
Knights of Labor, offered the Syndicate his lawyer's service.
Once the
Knights of Labor had been crushed, two other labor federations rose to prominence.
The
Knights of Labor was a Labor union that believed society should be run by consumer and worker cooperatives, not by banks and for-profit corporations.
At about the same time, the
Knights of Labor were doing similar things.
With the revival of the American
Knights of Labor in the 1880s, O'Donoghue became one of the leaders of this order in Toronto.
Letwin's study is divided into four periods: from the end of Reconstruction to the emergence of the Greenback-Labor Party and the
Knights of Labor, the Populist Period, the years between the turn of the century and World War I, and the renewal of union organizing campaigns in the postwar period.
Unlike Sabetti, Bouquillon's social views were similar to other Catholic liberals like the bishops John Ireland and John Keane, and Cardinal James Gibbons, who supported the 'Americanization' of immigrants, the establishment of the Catholic University of America, Catholic participation in the
Knights of Labor, and support and participation in public education.
His collection of labor history essays, From the
Knights of Labor to the New World Order (Garland), was published in March.
The strongest section of Stern's book is his interpretive history of activism by the
Knights of Labor during the 1880s.
While Chicago and other cities were torn by strife, the furniture workers of Grand Rapids fared better under the conservative leadership of the
Knights of Labor. After several short strikes at various manufacturers around the city, Nelson, Matter & Co., The Worden Furniture Co., the Phoenix Co.