Statement of the Committee of D.A. 162, Knights of Labor of California, in Powderly, Thirty Years of Labor, 216.
Powderly, Thirty Years of Labor, 213.
Statement of the Committee of D.A. 162, Knights of Labor of California, in Powderly, Thirty Years of Labor, 217.
Bromley, Chinese Massacre, 34.
For four books that show how critical issues of gender and race became to politics and social reform in the West, see:
Neil Foley, The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1997).
Ian Tyrrell, True Gardens of the Gods: Californian-Australian Environmental Reform, 1860-1930 (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press,1999).
A minority among the Knights wanted to include the Chinese. The Chinese, of course, could and did organize against employers.
Powderly, Thirty Years of Labor, 218.
David Montgomery, The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State and American Labor Activism (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1987), 67, 85
Fink, Workingmen's Democracy, 169.