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Everett labor leaders join forces with local clubs to push for the exclusion of Japanese employees from the Crown Lumber Company plant.
“Everett people are no less interested than residents of Mukilteo in the problem of employing white labor in the big lumber plant and will cooperate in all legitimate methods to bring about the desired end.”
Everett labor organizers cite local industrial hiring practices as a threat to the American standard of living.
“We need go no further than Mukilteo to see what Japanese labor can do to a community.”
Everett and Mukilteo citizens organize a public protest against the employment of Japanese laborers in the local mills.
“This is not a union labor meeting, it is not a business men's meeting, it is not a meeting of Mukilteo citizens. IT IS A PROTEST MEETING OF THE CITIZENS OF EVERY WALK IN LIFE.”
A town committee clashes with the Crown Mill company over the employment of Japanese workers, signaling rising anti-immigrant tensions in the region.
“They would rather see the mill moved away than to be run under the present system.”
A simmering local movement against the employment of Japanese workers at a Mukilteo mill intensifies as residents plan a mass protest in Everett.
“Those interested in the movement to oust the Japanese have, by no means, abated their efforts, nor, they declare, will they ever quit until they have accomplished what they set out to do.”
Citizens confront a local lumber company over the hiring of Asian laborers.
“The men who profited from the employment of Asiatics while white labor was scorned and ignored were unmercifully grilled.”
After years of failed agitation by men to remove Japanese workers from the local lumber mill, the Seaview Improvement Club has launched a new campaign of petitions and pressure.
“They do not conform to any rules of war known to the sterner sex, but on innumerable occasions man has discovered, sometimes to his discomfiture, that they did the business.”
Citizens and labor organizers intensify their campaign to drive Japanese laborers out of the local mill company.
“The Jap loving corporation is due to receive a jolt from Mr. Taylor that will jar every stockholder in the company.”
A contentious anti-Asian labor meeting in Mukilteo proceeds despite alleged sabotage by corporate interests.
“There are two classes of undesirables in this country, the directors of our great corporations who reap their fortunes by the debasing of American labor... and the laborers of Asiatic blood who take the wages out of the pockets of American people.”
The 'All-American League' sends a petition to the Crown Lumber Company demanding the dismissal of immigrant workers.
“We, citizens of Mukilteo, now known as the 'All-American League,' will close our appeal, and with us we have the citizens of Snohomish and King counties.”
A local improvement club organizes a mass meeting to demand the hiring of white workers, marking the start of an anti-Japanese campaign in the region.
“The Journal and its readers sympathize with the people of Mukilteo in their efforts to make a white man's community.”
Passengers on a Great Northern train watched in horror as thousands of tons of earth wiped out a work site just feet from their tracks.
“Thousands of tons of earth and boulders and great trees came down the hillside and carried everything before it.”
The 'All-American League' of Mukilteo launches a campaign to pressure the Crown Lumber Company to replace 175 Japanese employees with white citizens.
“We will furnish you, free of cost, 175 good, honest, sober and competent white American citizens to work in their places.”
A teenage prisoner, wanted for larceny in Everett, chooses the water over custody and drowns while fleeing transport.
“He jumped overboard about three miles from Mukilteo, and three-quarters of a mile from shore.”
The Great Northern’s southbound “Owl” wrecked when its locomotive boiler burst, throwing the engineer into Puget Sound and leaving the fireman missing.
“Although internally injured and his left leg broken, the engineer struggled into shallow water.”
A new industrial giant rises on the Puget Sound waterfront, promising to feed Seattle and bring prosperity to a small town.
Despite the regional economic downturn, one investor is transforming the waterfront into a bustling industrial center.
“Notwithstanding the complaint all over the Sound of the extreme scarcity of money and the hard times, the energy displayed... is infusing life into that place.”
A local yachting club's pleasure cruise turns into a harrowing battle with the equinoctial storm.
“Just then a squall struck her, throwing her on her beam ends, while the water poured into her at an alarming rate.”
A routine trek between Mukilteo and Priest's Point nearly turns deadly for a mail carrier trapped in the marsh.
“After being about two hours in the muck, the carrier was rescued through the assistance of the operator.”
Promoters pitched a 32-tract 'colony' in Mukilteo as a perfect, self-sustaining opportunity for families to own land and work the Sound, promising everything from shipbuilding to fertile marshland farming.
“Just the location for a colony! As it can be subdivided into forty-acre tracts, each of which will yield an abundant support for a family.”
Before it was a residential hub, Mukilteo was marketed as a grand 'colony' with promises of deep-water docks and agricultural self-sufficiency.
“Just the location for a colony! As it can be subdivided into forty acre tracts, each of which will yield an abundant support for a family.”
A settler challenges a Portland newspaper's account of a contested land filing near Mukilteo.
“When Gowan took this tract he did not take it for a home, but took it for timber, the same as plenty of others have done before him.”
Developers pitch a vision of 'valuable' homesteads and marshland ranches to settlers, promising a life of agriculture and industry on the shores of the Sound.
“The best chance ever offered in the Territory to secure a home farm. Just the location for a colony!”
Developers pitch the promise of self-sufficiency and deep-water access to prospective homesteaders in a growing Mukilteo.
“The natural advantages of Mukilteo are not excelled by any other place on the Sound.”
A frontier real estate advertisement reveals how developers sold the dream of independence to prospective settlers by subdividing the rugged waterfront into 'homesteads.'
“The natural advantages of Mukilteo are not excelled by any other place on the Sound.”
A speculative real estate advertisement touts Mukilteo as the next great industrial powerhouse, promising a future of ship-building and commerce that would forever alter the Snohomish County shoreline.
“The natural advantages of Mukilteo are not exceeded by any other place on the Sound.”
Developers pitch the 'natural advantages' of Mukilteo as a prime hub for shipping, milling, and homesteading on the Sound.
“The natural advantages of Mukilteo are not excelled by any other place on the Sound, for fishing, milling, shipbuilding or manufacturing purposes.”
A classic 19th-century land developer attempts to turn the 'natural advantages' of the Mukilteo waterfront into a booming commercial hub.
“The natural advantages of Mukilteo are not excelled by any other place on the Sound, for fishing, milling, ship-building or manufacturing purposes.”
A legacy of 19th-century Pacific Northwest industry, where the Eagle Brewery staked its claim as the premier producer of beer in the territory.
“The BEST BEER in the TERRITORY. TRY IT! TRY IT! TRY IT!”
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