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Chapter 7: Workingmen, footnote 140, page 314

Ch7 fn. 140
p. 314
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Discursive, Published Letters/Correspondence, Histories and Biographies, Race, Politics, Labor

Neasham to Powderly, Nov. 1, 1885, Executive Committee of District Assembly No. 82, K. of L. to Powderly, Oct. 3, 1885.

J. N. Corbin to Powderly, Nov. 1, 1885, John Mushett to Powderly, Nov. 2, 1885, Mushett to Powderly with attached affidavit, Nov. 3, 1885, all in Powderly Papers, r. 11.

Adams to Callaway, Sept. 22, 1885, Adams to Callaway, Sept. 21, 1885, Telegram, UP, PO, OC, vol. 32, ser. 2, r. 27; threat, Adams to Endicott, Sept. 7, 1885, UP, PO, OC, vol. 29, ser. 2, r. 25.

for end of strikes, Adams to Callaway, Nov. 11, 27, 1885, UP, PO, OC, vol. 32, ser. 2, r. 28. "Some excellent accounts of the Knights still write of them as attempting to "organize all workers, regardless of skill, race, or gender," but make the Chinese an exception.

Voss, Making of American Exceptionalism, 2, 81, 84; for strikes, Phelan, Grand Master Workman, 57-59.