KNIGHTS OF LABOUR

KNIGHTS OF LABOUR
   an American labour organisation, founded in 1869, resembling a union of all trades, male and female; in 1886 had 730,000 members, which have since disagreed and fallen off.

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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