William H. Bailey and employment

I just purchased a book called Picturesque Sketches of American Progress published in 1889. It had a section on the Knights of Labor including Bill Bailey of Shawnee. It clears up several confusions about his birth year.(1846) One thing it mentions is that as he was a union organizer he became blacklisted and could not get work here. He was getting ready to leave Ohio when the village of Shawnee hired him as chief of police. I know in Rendville, the same thing happened. Richard L. Davis could no longer work in the mines as he was also blacklisted and he became a town marshall.

So was this a way of keeping a good man here? Did the villagers go out of their way to hire men who could not work because of the union labor strife?

So this answers a few questions and leave some more for us to think about.

I still can't find when and where William H. Bailey died and I have been searching for some time. It is such a common name and he apparently went to California. He did a lot for the union movement but I have not found any mention of his death. Was he just forgotten so his death never made the newspapers or am I just looking in the wrong places?

I will continue the search.