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“Social Equality” chapter from Terence Vincent Powderly’s Thirty Years of Labor, 1859-1889. The chapter is wide ranging and deals with labor, race, and the Knights of Labor’s activities.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1890
Print shows Jay Gould, William H. Vanderbilt, Cyrus W. Field, Russell Sage, and John Roach riding in a carriage past a crowd of laborers labeled “Knights of Labor” and “Pittsburg Free Strikers” who are watching a man labeled “Workingman” trying to climb a “Greased” pole carrying a child on his back and with a woman and child hanging from his belt. The pole is greased with “Monopoly Grease,” at the top are “Higher Wages, Bread, Tobacco, Wine, [and] Ham.” The view from the pole shows factories in the middle distance and the “Roach Monopolist Ship Builder” facility in the background.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1882-06-21
Reverend Stafford sends a copy of Cardinal Gibbons’s paper entitled “The Knights of Labor” to President Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-11-03