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Updated: May 19, 2025

See above, 98-100. The "local assemblies" generally followed in practice trade lines, but the district assemblies were "mixed." See above, 100-101. The Great Upheaval of 1886 had, as we saw, suddenly swelled the membership of trade unions; consequently, during several years following, notwithstanding the prosperity in industry, further growth was bound to proceed at a slower rate.

Selig Perlman - A History of Trade Unionism in the United States