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1849–1924 United States

Terence Vincent Powderly (January 22, 1849 – June 24, 1924) was an American attorney, labor union leader and politician, best known as head of the Knights of Labor in the late 1880s. A lawyer, he was elected mayor of Scranton, Pennsylvania for three 2-year terms, starting in 1878.

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Give men shorter hours in which to labor, and you give them more time to study and learn why bread is so scarce while wheat is so plenty.

If you owe a man a dollar, pay it; if you owe him a grudge, forget it, and always be kind.

You cannot judge all men by the one standard, any more than you can make shoes for all of them on the same last. No law that ever darkened white paper in the printing can lay down a rule of conduct for all men to follow alike.

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