‘The Knights of Labor’ by Eugene V. Debs from Locomotive Firemen’s Magazine. Vol. 13 No. 1. January, 1889.

‘The Knights of Labor’ by Eugene V. Debs from Locomotive Firemen’s Magazine. Vol. 13 No. 1. January, 1889.

The Knight shocked racist respectability when Black workers attended their Richmond conference and sat with white workers. As proof of its immensely contradictory character, both the best and the worst of the U.S. labor movement emerged from the Knights of Labor. Here, Debs on the once-vanguard organization in decline as new forms of organization supersede…