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  1. In US history, a national labour organization
  2. founded by Philadelphia tailor Uriah Stephens
  3. 1869 and committed to cooperative enterprise,
  4. equal pay for both sexes, and an eight-hour
  5. day. The Knights grew rapidly in the
  6. mid-1880s under Terence V Powderly
  7. (1849-1924) but gave way to the American
  8. Federation of Labor after 1886.
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