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In US history, a national labour organization
founded by Philadelphia tailor Uriah Stephens
1869 and committed to cooperative enterprise,
equal pay for both sexes, and an eight-hour
day. The Knights grew rapidly in the
mid-1880s under Terence V Powderly
(1849-1924) but gave way to the American
Federation of Labor after 1886.