Archival Blog Post: "Terence V. Powderly, American Labor Leader and Immigration Official" (Catholic University of America)

Terence V. Powderly, American Labor Leader and Immigration Official

Terence V. Powderly, who was friends with the celebrated Mother Jones, a man not widely remembered in the twenty-first century, was a national celebrity, an ‘American Idol’ if you will, in the tumultuous era of the late nineteenth century. He was a reform minded Mayor of Scranton (1878-1884), head of the national Knights of Labor union (1879-1893), and federal Immigration and Labor bureaucrat (1897-1924).

To read more abbout Powderly or access his paper, please visit http://www.lib.cua.edu/wordpress/newsevents/7244/