Mutual SOCIETY
100% Fruit of Labor
150+ Year history
Without an aggressive incentive program for worker/owners and investors our efforts will be in vain. Worker cooperatives are some of the most efficient forms of production known to mankind. Though throughout history Worker Cooperatives very rarely survive. We intend to change that with internal economics that out-rival the free market
Without an aggressive incentive program for worker/owners and investors our efforts will be in vain. Worker cooperatives are some of the most efficient forms of production known to mankind. Though throughout history Worker Cooperatives very rarely survive. We intend to change that with internal economics that out-rival the free market economy. We need to incentivize labor and investment at a higher rate than the normal economy. This isn't too difficult with how inefficient the free market economy really is. Though what seems to happen in every reincarnation of worker owned enterprises is they are internally or externally devoured by outside market forces and uneducated workers/investors that do not physically realize benefits of building a cooperative organization together.
150+ Year history
100% Fruit of Labor
150+ Year history
Our Mutual Organization is the 21st Century reboot of the Knights of Labor from 1869. K-of-L became the largest and most prolific labor organization in the late 1800's. The Knights established hundreds of cooperative workshops in concert with their organized labor initiatives. At the time secrecy and exclusion of certain classes of pe
Our Mutual Organization is the 21st Century reboot of the Knights of Labor from 1869. K-of-L became the largest and most prolific labor organization in the late 1800's. The Knights established hundreds of cooperative workshops in concert with their organized labor initiatives. At the time secrecy and exclusion of certain classes of people from membership was common. This insulated themselves from Bankers, Land Speculators, Lawyers, Liquor Dealers, and Gamblers. All of the known ways to protect their organization at the time were incorporated. Most of the 200+ cooperative workshops where taken over by individual members by the late 1800's and the rest dissolved or sold off. This is very similar to the Commercial Society of the Moravian's and The Christmas City of Pa. Subsequently many of the members that took over the cooperative workshops became very wealthy individuals and were some of the early industrialists as evidenced in Bethlehem, PA. and other Commercial Societies in America.
100% Fruit of Labor
100% Fruit of Labor
100% Fruit of Labor
We are the first organization to promote Life, Liberty and 100% Fruit of Labor (Estate/Property). If our 150+ year history has taught us anything we have to earn 100% or it will eventually be devoured by the systemic inequity that is pervasive in our economy. We can achieve this with a multi-layered industrial conglomerate for worker ow
We are the first organization to promote Life, Liberty and 100% Fruit of Labor (Estate/Property). If our 150+ year history has taught us anything we have to earn 100% or it will eventually be devoured by the systemic inequity that is pervasive in our economy. We can achieve this with a multi-layered industrial conglomerate for worker owned Limited Cooperative Association Corporations. One layer would be a digital and lease holding company. The Knights of Labor today is just that. We hold digital assets and leased property for our members and organize and establish/register business entities. A Capital Gain token is leveraged to compensate members for their hours worked and financial investment and property leases to the Limited Cooperative Association. We take advantage of token economics for crowdfunding and share distribution in a dual token/share called UnityChain. UnityTokens are a USD stable coin that is used to exchange with a capital gains based UnityShares coin for rewarding members with growing the enterprise.
PREAMBLE AND DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES
THE KNIGHTS of LABOR
TO THE PUBLIC: CIRCA 1885 & 2022
The alarming development and aggressiveness of great capitalists and corporations, unless checked, will inevitably lead to the pauperization and hopeless degradation of the toiling masses. It is imperative, if we desire to enjoy the full blessings of life, that a check be placed upon unjust (non-mutual) accumulation, and the power for evil of aggregated wealth. This much-desired object can be accomplished only by the united efforts of those who obey the divine injunction, "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread." Therefore we have formed the Mutual Order of Knights of Labor, for the purpose of organizing and directing the power of the industrial masses, not as a political party, for it is more - in it are crystallized sentiments and measures for the benefit of the whole people, but it should be borne in mind, when exercising the right of suffrage, that most of the objects herein set forth can only be obtained through legislation, and that it is the duty of all to assist in nominating and supporting with their votes only such candidates as will pledge their support to those measures, regardless of party. But no one shall, however, be compelled to vote with the majority, and calling upon all who believe in securing "the greatest good to the greatest number," to join and assist us, we declare to the world that are our aims are:
I.) To make individual and moral/mutual worth, not wealth, the true standard of individual and National greatness.
II.) To secure to the workers the full enjoyment of the wealth they create, sufficient leisure in which to develop their intellectual, moral, and social faculties (mutual): all of the benefits, recreation and pleasures of association (mutual organization); in a word, to enable them to share in the gains and honors of advancing civilization.
In order to secure these results, we demand at the hands of the State:
III.) The establishment of Bureaus of Labor Statistics, that we may arrive at a correct knowledge of the educational, moral and financial condition of the laboring masses.
IV.) That the public lands, the heritage of the people, be reserved for actual settlers; not another acre for railroads or speculators, and that all lands now held for speculative purposes be taxed to their full value.
V.) The abrogation of all laws that do not bear equally upon capital and labor, and the removal of unjust technicalities, delays and discriminations in the administration of justice.
VI.) The adoption of measures providing for the health and safety of those engaged in mining and manufacturing, building industries, and for indemnification to those engaged therein for injuries received through lack of necessary safeguards.
VII.) The recognition, by incorporation, of trades' unions, orders and such other associations as may be organized by the working masses to improve their condition and protect their rights.
VIII.) The enactment of laws to compel corporations to pay their employees weekly, in lawful money, for the labor of the preceding week, and giving mechanics and laborers a first lien upon the product of their labor to the extent of their full wages.
IX.) The abolition of the contract system on National, State and Municipal works.
X.) The enactment of laws providing for arbitration between employers and employed, and to enforce the decision of the arbitrators.
XI.) The prohibition by law of the employment of children under 15 years of age in workshops, mines and factories.
XII.) To prohibit the hiring out of convict labor.
XIII.) That a graduated income tax be levied. Similar Law established in 1913
And we demand at the hands of Congress:
XIV.) The establishment of a National monetary system, in which a circulating medium in necessary quantity shall issue direct to the people, without the intervention of banks; that all the National issue shall be full legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private; and that the Government shall not guarantee or recognize any private banks, or create any banking corporations.
XV.) That interest-bearing bonds, bills of credit or notes shall never be issued by the Government, but that, when need arises, the emergency shall be met by issue of legal tender, non-interest-bearing money.
XVI.) That the importation of foreign labor under contract be prohibited.
XVII.) That, in connection wit the post-office, the Government shall organize financial exchanges, safe deposits and facilities for deposit of the savings of the people in small sums.
XVIII.) That the Government shall obtain possession, by purchase, under the right of eminent domain, of all telegraphs, telephones and railroads, and that hereafter no charter or license be issued to any corporation for construction or operation of any means of transporting intelligence, passengers or freight.
And while making the foregoing demands upon the State and National Government, we will endeavor to a
XIX.) To establish co-operative institutions (Mutual Organizations/Societies) such as will tend to supersede the wage system, by the introduction of a co-operative industrial system.
XX.) To secure for both sexes equal pay for equal work.
XXI.) To shorten the hours of labor by a general refusal to work for more than eight hours. Became Law in 1940
XXII.) To persuade employers to agree to arbitrate all differences which may arise between them and their employees, in order that the bonds of sympathy between them may be strengthened and that strikes may be rendered unnecessary.
Labor Day initiateD by the KNIGHTS of LABOR in 1882
If you believe in mutual organization, you are earnestly invited to join with us in securing these objects. All information on the subject of mutual organization should be sent to the General Secretary-Treasurer of the Mutual Order, who will have a Mutual Organizer visit you and assist in furthering the good work.