LABOR UNION

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Labor Union

However, two prominent figures have come in front of us when discussing labor unions, namely Terence Powderly and Jay Gould. Terence Powderly was the son of Irish Catholic immigrants, who served himself as the Leader of the Knights of Labor (1879-1893), while Jay Gould or 'Jason' Gould was a leading American railroad developer and speculator.

Powderly had coined the named the Knights of Labor for identifying the union as one with distinct objective: to reach out to all, without any discrimination. For this reason, Powderly's reign comprise whites, blacks, men, women, skilled, unskilled and immigrant citizens that marked ...