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Knights of labor,

The name assumed by a labor league having a membership in all parts of the United States and Canada, with an executive head styled “General master workman.” Subservient to the central authority are numerous local organizations. The order claims the right and exercises the power of regulating the conditions of labor between employers and the employed, having officers called “walking delegates,” who enter industrial establishments and order men and women to quit work, unless the conditions between them and their employers are satisfactory to the order. In 1900 the order claimed a membership of 200,000.

Harper and Brothers Publishers. . New York. 1902.

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