Western Union Telegraph Company
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- Jul 24, 1883The Struggle for Labor's WorthAs telegraphers across the country walk off the job, the local press debates the morality of corporate monopolies versus the rights of the individual laborer.Seattle, WA
- Oct 16, 1883The Case for a National Telegraph ServiceA scathing editorial argues that the Western Union monopoly overcharges the public and mistreats employees, calling for government intervention.Seattle, WA
- Mar 24, 1886The War Over the WiresA newspaper editor battles the Western Union monopoly over telegraph rates and news distribution.Seattle, WA
- Mar 29, 1889The Telegraph Strike That Wasn'tWhen Western Union messenger boys in Seattle attempted to organize for better pay, management crushed the effort in a single afternoon.Seattle, WA
- Jul 10, 1892A Dangerous Drop on Madison StreetA lineman for the Western Union Telegraph Company narrowly survives a thirty-foot fall while hoisting poles.Madison Street, Seattle, WA
- Jan 4, 1895A Ten-Inch Snowstorm Buries Seattle and Stalls the CarsThe city's streetcars, telegraph wires and outlying districts struggle under a heavy January snowfall as Portland reports three feet and the weather observer warns of more to come.Seattle, WA
- Mar 6, 1895A School Superintendent's Fall from GraceJ. C. Phelps of Anacortes is bound over to superior court on charges that he embezzled money from a wharf company and Western Union.Mount Vernon, WA
- Jun 29, 1895A One-Letter Typo That Cost a Telegraph Giant $6,000A misplaced 'a' in a cable address sent a lumber shipment's sale instructions to the wrong man, and a Seattle jury made Western Union pay.Seattle, WA
- Jun 5, 1899The Wild Rush for a Mining ExchangeProminent investors race to establish a formal trading floor on First Avenue as the Klondike Gold Rush transforms Seattle into a global commercial hub.609 First Avenue, Seattle, WA