Seattle Industrial Co-operative Society
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- Jan 25, 1895Seattle’s 1895 Co-op Where 150 Unemployed Men Ate for 7 Cents a DayAt a Belltown barracks, unemployed single men pooled their wages, submitted to military-style rules and fed an average of 150 people daily for about 7 cents each.Seattle, WA
- Mar 2, 1895Ten Men, a Car of Onions, and Fifty CentsA Seattle labor co-operative sent ten members to unload a freight car. The merchant paid them a nickel apiece—and the city talked about it.Western Avenue, Seattle, WA
- Mar 5, 1895The Free-Water Fight and the 'Idle Single Men'A proposal to give the Seattle Industrial Co-operative Society free water for two months set off a council debate over poverty, manhood, and who deserved public help.Seattle, WA