Source: Knights of Labor State Their Demands
I. To bring within the folds of organization every department of productive industry, making knowledge a standpoint for action, and industrial and moral worth, not wealth, the true standard of individual and national greatness.
II. To secure to the toilers a proper share of the wealth that they create....
III. To . . . [demand] from the various governments the establishment of Bureaus of Labor Statistics.
IV. The establishment of co-operative institutions, productive and distributive.
V. The reserving of the public lands ... for the actual settler....
VI. The abrogation [repeal] of all laws that do not bear equally upon capital and labor, the removal of unjust technicalities, delays, and discriminations in the administration of justice, and the adopting of measures providing for the health and safety of those engaged in mining, manufacturing, or building pursuits.
VII. The enactment of laws to compel chartered corporations to pay their employees weekly....
VIII. The enactment of laws giving mechanics and laborers a first lien on their work for their full wages.
IX. The abolishment of the contract system on national, State, and municipal work.
X. The substitution of arbitration for strikes....
XI. The prohibition of the employment of children in workshops, mines, and factories before attaining their fourteenth year.
XII. To abolish the system of letting out by contract the labor of convicts....
XIII. To secure for both sexes equal pay for equal work.
XIV. The reduction of the hours of labor to eight per day....
XV. To prevail upon governments to establish a purely national circulation [money], based upon the faith and resources of the nation, and issued directly to the people, without the intervention of any system of banking corporations....