But thereâs sweet irony in seeing founders of a recruitment startup face similar challenges. Iâve been wrestling with this process myself, spending most of the past 2 months making our first key hires for RecruitLoop in San Francisco.
Library of Congress. Uriah Stephens (1821-82) founded the Knights of Labor, the first national industrial union in the United States, in Philadelphia in December 1869 and led the organization until he resigned his post as Grand Master Workman in 1879.
The Knights of Labor were hard hit from the Haymarket Incident and they were never able to recover. AFL insisted on a clearer separation of roles when the Knights began to act more like trade unions. The position of the groups on the 8 hour work day permanently ruptured the relationship between the two.