The Knights of Labor is especially significant to my family because most of my life, my father worked as a cobbler. In Ireland he tells me he was the best Cobbler for hundreds of miles, and that when he came to America it was what he wanted to do. He set up a small shop in which he made custom-made shoes for wealthy business men. That is how he met the man who paid for my college education; by joining the KOL he better positioned himself in a state where he wouldn't be taken advantage of.
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