Broken labor solidarity channeled workers into anti-Catholic nativism.

Evidence

Much of this early support came from disaffected union members, especially from the Knights of Labor, which was falling apart due to the anti-labor reaction after the Haymarket Affair. In some places Bowers drew mostly from railroad trainmen, switchmen, and clerks, who felt dissatisfied with unions and threatened with Irish competition. By 1890, when the National Council of the A.P.A. convened for the first time in Chicago rather than in fowa, its local councils were flourishing in communities scattered from Detroit to Omaha. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 377

Categorization

• STORYSTEM: flagged by the selector, no supporting note recorded
• XREF: connects to: Economic distress was redirected into anti-Catholic conspiracy rather than class conflict. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 486; Anti-Catholic nativism peaked after mass Catholic immigration, not before it — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes…, 287; Proletarianization created divisions among workers instead of erasing them

Broader Connections

• Proletarianization created divisions among workers instead of erasing them #expands (0.82)
• Anti-Catholic nativism peaked after mass Catholic immigration, not before it #qualifies (0.75) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 287