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The Un-American Knights of Labor

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 13, 1887

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 13, No. 2.

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The Un-American Knights of Labor

If there is a more arrogant and at the same time a more un-American "monopoly" than is Knights of Labor, we should like to discover it. In the first place its designation implies a title of nobility, and for these things we have no use in this country. Working men especially would do well to beware of them. They are monarchical and unrepublican. Our revolutionary forefathers were jealous of all such imitations of royal technique, and hence they inserted in the Constitution a clause prohibiting Congress from conferring upon anybody any order of nobility. It is, in addition to this, a secret society, another circumstance which exposes it to suspicion.—N. Y. Commercial Bulletin.