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Terence Vincent Powderly (January 22, 1849 – June 24, 1924) was an American labor union leader, politician and attorney, best known as head of the Knights of Labor in the late 1880s. Born in Carbondale, Pennsylvania , he was later elected mayor of Scranton, Pennsylvania , for three 2-year terms, starting in 1878.
The Knights of Labor ( K of L ), officially the Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor, was an American labor federation that was active in the late 19th century, especially the 1880s. It operated in the United States as well in Canada, [1] and had chapters also in Great Britain and Australia. [2] Its most important leader was Terence V ...
The acceptance of all producers led to explosive growth after 1880. Under the leadership of Terence V. Powderly they championed a variety of causes, sometimes through political or cooperative ventures. [29] Powderly hoped to gain their ends through politics and education rather than through economic coercion.
The American Federation of Labor ( A.F. of L.) was a national federation of labor unions in the United States that continues today as the AFL–CIO. It was founded in Columbus, Ohio, in 1886 by an alliance of craft unions eager to provide mutual support and disappointed in the Knights of Labor. Samuel Gompers was elected the full-time president ...
The Socialist Labor Party ( SLP) [2] is a political party in the United States. It was established in 1876, and was the first socialist party formed in the country. Originally known as the Workingmen's Party of the United States, the party changed its name in 1877 to Socialistic Labor Party [3] and again sometime in the late 1880s to Socialist ...
The Terence V. Powderly House stands on the east side of North Main Avenue. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, built as a single-family residence in a vernacular Victorian style, with a cross-gabled roof on a busy street in a residential neighborhood in an area slightly west of downtown Scranton, looking towards it over the Lackawanna River.
e. The Rock Springs massacre, also known as the Rock Springs riot, occurred on September 2, 1885, in the present-day United States city of Rock Springs in Sweetwater County, Wyoming. The riot, and resulting massacre of immigrant Chinese miners by European immigrant miners, was the result of racial prejudice toward the Chinese miners, who were ...
The Supreme Court overturned the bribery conviction of a former Indiana mayor on Wednesday in an opinion that narrows the scope of public corruption law. The high court's 6-3 opinion along ...