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Knights of Labour

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Members of a trades union organised in 1834, in the United States of America, to regulate the amount of wages to be demanded by workmen, the degree of skill to be exacted from them, and the length of a day’s work. This league enjoins when a strike is to be made, and when workmen of the union may resume work.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Knight of the Rueful Countenance
Knight’s Fee
Knight’s Ward (The)
Knights
Knights Bachelors
Knights Bannerets
Knights Baronets
Knights Errant
Knights of Carpetry
Knights of Industry
Knights of Labour
Knights of Malta
Knights of St. Crispin
Knights of St. Patrick
Knights of the Bag
Knights of the Bath
Knights of the Blade
Knights of the Chamber
Knights of the Cleaver
Knights of the Garter
Knights of the Green Cloth

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Knights of Labour