The Knights of Labor in the South

Abstract

It is frequently said in Southern industrial areas that unionism or labor organization is alien to the traditions of Southern labor, that every effort toward labor organization in the past has failed, the Southern worker being congenitally opposed to unionism. However, there is evidence to show that past efforts to organize Southern labor have met with considerable success, and that active and vigorous organization is within the tradition of the Southern worker. In the late 'eighties, under the banner of the Knights of Labor, thousands of Southern workers participated in a legitimate union movement, directed primarily toward the betterment of their material work conditions.

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