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Perlman, Selig

"A History of Trade Unionism in the United States"


[15] Dr. Ely in his pioneer work, _The Labor Movement in America_,
published in 1886, showed a most genuine sympathy for the idealistic
strivings and gropings of labor for a better social order. He even
advised some of his pupils at the Johns Hopkins University to join the
Knights of Labor in order to gain a better understanding of the labor
movement.
[16] Schultze-Delizsch was a German thinker and practical reformer of
the liberal school.
[17] The Anarchists who were tried and executed after the Haymarket
Square bomb in Chicago in May, 1886. See below, 91-93.


CHAPTER 4
REVIVAL AND UPHEAVAL, 1879-1887

With the return of business prosperity in 1879, the labor movement
revived. The first symptom of the upward trend was a rapid
multiplication of city federations of organized trades, variously known
as trade councils, amalgamated trade and labor unions, trades
assemblies, and the like. Practically all of these came into existence
after 1879, since hardly any of the "trades' assemblies" of the sixties
had survived the depression.
As was said above, the national trade unions existed during the sixties
and seventies in only about thirty trades.


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