Knights of Labor (Corporate Name)

LC manual auth. cd. (hdg.: Socialist Trade and Labor Alliance; in 1895 Daniel De Leon led a seceding faction from the Knights of Labor and founded the Socialist Trade and Labor Alliance; at Chicago in 1905, De Leon took part in the formation of the Industrial Workers of the world, the Socialist Trade and Labor Alliance being immediately merged with it) (hdg.: Knights of Labor; founded in Phila. in 1869; a general labor organization in the U.S. comprising all conditions of workmen; at first name and purposes of the organization were kept secret, but in 1882 this was abandoned; on Jan. 1, 1878, a national org. was formed; known as the National Assembly of the Knights of Labor)

Labor Unions, 1977 (Knights of Labor; variant: Noble Order of the Knights of Labor; basic organizing unit of the KofL was local assembly composed of workers in a single trade or craft)

Proceedings of the General Assembly of the Knights of Labor of America, 1887

NUCMC data from U. of Washington Lib. for Fraser, R. collection, 1905-1949 (name not given; Industrial Workers of the World)