Sons of Vulcan

Sons of Vulcan
Merged intoAmalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers
Founded1858
Dissolved1876
Location
Members3,331 in 1874 (height)
Key people
Miles Humphreys, first Grand Master (later President)

The Sons of Vulcan was an American labor union which existed from 1858 until 1876. The union recruited puddlers, skilled craftsmen who manipulated pig iron to create steel. In the 1870s, it was the strongest union in the United States. It merged with two other iron and steel unions in 1876 to form the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers—the forerunner of the United Steelworkers.

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