The Dubuque Daily Herald Sunday October 23, 1887 The Workingmen of Dubuque. Any workingman who voted last spring for the ring of those few politicians who call themselves the Union Labor party, and are working the Knights of Labor to support them in office, should ask himself how much benefit that vote has done […]
The Dubuque Daily Herald Thursday October 20, 1887 The New Paper. One hundred and fifty stockholders of the Knights of Labor Co-operative Publishing company, met last evening at the Thirteenth street hall for the purpose of holding their first annual meeting. A dividend of 10 per cent. was declared, which was considered very satisfactory. […]
The Dubuque Daily Herald Wednesday September 7, 1887 The German Catholics Against the Knights of Labor. The German Catholic convention at Chicago has hit the Knights of Labor a hard blow. Resolutions were introduced which were received with applause declaring against the Knights and scoring them in severe terms The talk of the Knights […]
The Dubuque Daily Herald Friday September 2, 1887 UNION LABOR CLUB. The Organization Hold their Second Meeting—An Extremely Small Attendance. Between eighty and ninety persons, including reporters, janitor and curiosity hunters were at the court house pursuant to call of the Union Labor club for a second meeting. At considerably past the hour set for […]
The Dubuque Daily Herald Thursday August 18, 1887 ONE TO MANY . Vociferous Complaints That Too Many Knights of Labor Hold Office Now. Last evening the office was filled at different times with complaining individuals, both male and female, who were not at all mild in their denunciation of the present park custodian and […]
The Dubuque Daily Herald Saturday July 2, 1887 A HOODWINKED COUNCIL. Refuses New Gas Charter Under a Misapprehension of the Facts. Indignation at the Action to Keep New Capital Out of the City. Deceit has been practiced upon the members of the city council to induce them to adopt a resolution refusing to give […]
The Dubuque Daily Herald Saturday June 4, 1887 The Proposition to Work Jail Prisoners on the Streets. The city council in committee of the whole has decided not to accept the proposition made to them by the supervisors to give the city the use of the prisoners confined in the county jail to work upon […]
The Dubuque Daily Herald Sunday May 29, 1887 Spreading its Wings. The Knights of Labor, originally organized to promote and defend the interests of laborers, and especially against the encroachments of grinding capital and remorseless employers, have now grown far beyond its original confines, and seek to control many things not originally contemplated when first […]
The Dubuque Daily Herald Friday April 8, 1887 Why Citizens Fear the Labor Victory in Dubuque. Nothing has happened in Dubuque for that has so thoroughly frightened business men as the election of the Knights of Labor ticket on Monday last. Capital is always timid, and in this case it is all the more […]
The Dubuque Daily Herald Thursday April 7, 1887 THE CITY ELECTION. Some Outside Comments On Result. Chicago Tribune: The practical significance of yesterday’s work [in Chicago] is the example set to other cities of the way to meet the attempt to break down the barriers of law and displace the American flag by the red […]