Question: George A. Schilling, was a prominent American union leader and Georgist in which late century, he made his mark in the Chicago labor movement as a member of the cooper's union and a leader of the Knights of Labor?

Terence Vincent Powderly (January 22, 1849 – June 24, 1924) was an American labor union leader, politician and attorney, best known as head of the Knights of Labor in the late 1880s.  He was elected mayor of Scranton, Pennsylvania for three 2-year terms, starting in 1878.  A Republican, he served as the United States Commissioner General of Immigration in 1897.  The Knights of Labor was one of the largest American labor organizations of the 19th century, but Powderly was a poor administrator and could barely keep it under control.  His small central office could not supervise or coordinate the many strikes and other activities sponsored by union locals.  Powderly believed that the Knights was an educational tool to uplift the workingman, and he downplayed the use of strikes to achieve worker goals. <SEP>  He was also active in Anarchist circles.  From 1865 to the 1890s, Schilling worked in Chicago for the Arbeiter Zeitung, a German-language newspaper with socialist (and later, anarchist) leanings. George A. Schilling (1850 - 1936) was a prominent American union leader and Georgist in the late nineteenth century.  He made his mark in the Chicago labor movement as a member of the cooper's union and a leader of the Knights of Labor.  In 1886, he was a prominent supporter of the Labor Party in Illinois.  In 1886, the Labor Party endorsed John Altgeld for a judgeship, which Altgeld won. <SEP>  Its most important leader was Terence V. Powderly.  The Knights promoted the social and cultural uplift of the workingman, rejected socialism and anarchism, demanded the eight-hour day, and promoted the producers ethic of republicanism. Knights of Labor (K of L), officially Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor, was the largest and one of the most important American labor organizations of the 1880s.  In some cases it acted as a labor union, negotiating with employers, but it was never well organized, and after a rapid expansion in the mid-1880s, it suddenly lost its new members and became a small operation again. <SEP> Robert Fechner (22 March 1876 – 31 December 1939) was a national labor union leader and director of the Civilian Conservation Corps (1933–39), which played a central role in the development of state and national parks in the United States.  Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee.  With only a public school elementary education he had risen to become an American labor union leader and vice president of the International Association of Machinists.  He had a reputation for fairness, tact, and patience in all his dealings.  On 5 April 1933 he was appointed by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to be the Director of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC).  It was Fechner's fairness and ability for organization and administration that impressed the president to his appointment as director.  Although he had been an important labor figure, Fechner objected to attempts of union organizers to form unions among CCC enrollees in the camps.  He felt that the government was doing all it possibly could for the well-being of the enrollees: well fed, supporting dependents with monthly earnings, getting an education; and they were contributing in a constructive manner to the conservation needs of the nation.  The need for a union in this situation was not necessary, and he issued orders to keep union organizers out of the CCC camps and gave instructions that if any of the CCC enrolees joined a union they were to be discharged.  Upon Fechner's death while still serving as CCC Director he was succeeded by James McEntee.