Knights Templar

Examples of Knights Templar in the following topics:

• The Church

  • In association with the Crusades, the military orders of the Knights Hospitaller and the Knights Templar were founded.

• The Fourth Crusade

  • The Knights Templar were recognized, and grants of crusading indulgences to those who opposed papal enemies are seen by some historians as the beginning of politically motivated crusades.
  • In the Iberian peninsula, Crusader privileges were given to those aiding the Templars, the Hospitallers, and the Iberian orders that merged with the Order of Calatrava and the Order of Santiago.

• The Knights of Labor and the "Conditions Essential to Liberty"

  • Wright, established a secret union under the name, the Noble Order of the Knights of Labor.
  • The Knights primary demand was for an eight hour day.
  • The Knights failed in the highly visible Missouri Pacific strike in 1886 .
  • The Haymarket Riot of May 1886 came during a strike by the Knights in Chicago, and although violence was not planned, the Knights were very badly tarnished nationwide with the image of violence and anarchy.
  • By 1890, the Knights had declined to fewer than 100,000 members.

• Toward Permanent Unions

  • In early 1886, the Knights were coordinating 1400 strikes involving over 600,000 workers spread over much of the country.
  • As strikers rallied against the McCormick plant, a team of political anarchists, who were not Knights, tried to piggyback support among striking Knights workers.
  • The Knights of Labor were seriously injured by the false accusation that the Knights promoted anarchistic violence.
  • Many Knights locals transferred to the less radical and more respectable AFL unions or railroad brotherhoods.
  • The official seal of the Knights of Labor, representing their mission statement.

• Labor and Domestic Tensions

  • Starting in the mid 1880s as a new group, the Knights of Labor grew rapidly.
  • The Knights avoided violence but their reputation collapsed in the wake of the Haymarket Square Riot in Chicago in 1886, when anarchists bombed the policemen dispersing a meeting.
  • At its peak, the Knights claimed 700,000 members.

• A Brief History of Organized Labor

  • The Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor (KOL) was founded in Philadelphia in 1869 by Uriah Stephens and six other men.
  • The Knights only permitted certain groups of individuals into their Order which promoted social division amongst the people around them.
  • Women were also welcome to join the Knights, as well as black workers by the year 1883.
  • In November 1885, the Knights of a Washington city pushed to get rid of their Asian population.
  • The knights were strongly for the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 because it greatly helped them deteriorate the Asian community.

• Workers Organize

  • The first successful effort to organize workers' groups on a nationwide basis appeared with The Noble Order of the Knights of Labor in 1869.
  • The Knights grew slowly until they succeeded in facing down the great railroad baron, Jay Gould , in an 1885 strike.
  • Within a year, they added 500,000 workers to their rolls, far more than the thin leadership structure of the Knights were prepared for.
  • The Knights of Labor soon fell into decline, and their place in the labor movement was gradually taken by the American Federation of Labor (AFL).
  • The killing of policemen greatly embarrassed the Knights of Labor, which was not involved with the bomb but which took much of the blame.

• Organized Labor

  • An early example of a labor union is the Knights of Labor.
  • The Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor (KOL) was founded in Philadelphia in 1869 by Uriah Stephens and six other men.
  • Women were also welcome to join the Knights, as well as black workers by the year 1883.
  • In November 1885, the Knights of a Washington city pushed to get rid of their Asian population.
  • The Knights were strongly for the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 because it greatly helped them deteriorate the Asian community.

• The Rise of Unions

  • The Noble Order of the Knights of Labor was open to all workers, including African Americans, women, and farmers.
  • The Knights failed in the highly visible Missouri Pacific strike in 1886 .
  • The Knights of Labor soon fell into decline.
  • The killing of policemen greatly embarrassed the Knights of Labor.
  • The official seal of the Knights of Labor, representing their mission statement.

• The Labor Movement's Early Years

  • The first significant national labor organization was the Knights of Labor, founded among garment cutters in 1869 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and dedicated to organizing all workers for their general welfare.
  • By 1886, the Knights had about 700,000 members, including blacks, women, wage-earners, merchants, and farmers alike.
  • The Knights won a strike against railroads owned by American millionaire Jay Gould in the mid-1880s, but they lost a second strike against those railroads in 1886.