The experience embittered Gompers against the Knights .
William H. Bailey and Thomas Barry , two executive board members of the Knights of Labor , supported the insurgents against Gompers and may have sabotaged a compromise which would have permitted Gompers to step down .
The experience embittered Gompers against the Knights of Labor .
William H. Bailey and Thomas Barry , two executive board members of the Knights of Labor , supported the insurgents against Gompers and may have sabotaged a compromise which would have permitted Gompers to step down .