<P> The Knights of Labor was an organization that helped to join together many different types of people from all different walks of life ; for example Catholic and Protestant Irish - born workers . The KOL was appealing to them because they worked very closely with the Irish Land League . The Knights of Labor had a mixed history of inclusiveness and exclusiveness , accepting women and blacks ( after 1878 ) and their employers as members , and advocating the admission of blacks into local assemblies , but tolerating the segregation of assemblies in the South . Bankers , doctors , lawyers , stockholders , and liquor manufacturers were excluded because they were considered unproductive members of society . Asians were also excluded , and in November 1885 , a branch of the Knights in Tacoma , Washington worked to expel the city 's Chinese , who amounted to nearly a tenth of the overall city population at the time . The Union Pacific Railroad came into conflict with the Knights . When the Knights in Wyoming refused to work more hours in 1885 , the railroad hired Chinese workers . The result was the Rock Springs massacre , that killed scores of Chinese , and drove all the rest out of Wyoming . About 50 African - American sugar - cane laborers organized by the Knights went on strike and were murdered by strikebreaking thugs in the 1887 Thibodaux massacre in Louisiana . The Knights strongly supported the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and the Contract Labor Law of 1885 , as did many other labor groups . But they were not against immigration , the Knights of Labor wanted more regulations , not restrictions . </P>
<P> The Knights of Labor was an organization that helped to join together many different types of people from all different walks of life ; for example Catholic and Protestant Irish - born workers . The KOL was appealing to them because they worked very closely with the Irish Land League . The Knights of Labor had a mixed history of inclusiveness and exclusiveness , accepting women and blacks ( after 1878 ) and their employers as members , and advocating the admission of blacks into local assemblies , but tolerating the segregation of assemblies in the South . Bankers , doctors , lawyers , stockholders , and liquor manufacturers were excluded because they were considered unproductive members of society . Asians were also excluded , and in November 1885 , a branch of the Knights in Tacoma , Washington worked to expel the city 's Chinese , who amounted to nearly a tenth of the overall city population at the time . The Union Pacific Railroad came into conflict with the Knights . When the Knights in Wyoming refused to work more hours in 1885 , the railroad hired Chinese workers . The result was the Rock Springs massacre , that killed scores of Chinese , and drove all the rest out of Wyoming . About 50 African - American sugar - cane laborers organized by the Knights went on strike and were murdered by strikebreaking thugs in the 1887 Thibodaux massacre in Louisiana . The Knights strongly supported the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and the Contract Labor Law of 1885 , as did many other labor groups . But they were not against immigration , the Knights of Labor wanted more regulations , not restrictions . </P>
who was not allowed in the knights of labor
who was not allowed in the knights of labor
Bankers doctors lawyers stockholders liquor manufacturers
Bankers doctors lawyers stockholders liquor manufacturers