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That was the case in the 1870s and 1880s, when the eight-hour day became the rallying cry for the Knights of Labor, the first truly national industrial labor union.

Some 10,000 workers marched in a parade organized by the Central Labor Union and the Knights of Labor, according to the Labor Department and Encyclopaedia Britannica.

There was the Knights of Labor’s unsuccessful work stoppage two months later, when miners demanded shorter hours and other compensations.

She developed relationships with the women’s division of the Knights of Labor, the Universal Peach Union, and the Daughters of the American Revolution, to name a few.

Those were some of the goals of the Knights of Labor, a secret society that was essentially the nation’s first labor organization.