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What events caused a loss of prestige of the Knights of Labor and strengthened factional disputes between the craft unionists and the advocates of all-inclusive unionism?

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But failure in the Missouri Pacific strike in 1886 and the Haymarket Square riot (for which it was, although not responsible, condemned by the press) caused a loss of prestige and strengthened factional disputes between the craft unionists and the advocates of all-inclusive unionism.

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