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- The Wealth Test for Justice
A new statute restricting jury duty to 'taxpayers' effectively excludes the working class from serving as peers in legal proceedings.
- Wage Theft on the Rails
Great Northern laborers quit and waited days for owed pay; Prosecutor Bell's push brought only calls for haste.
- Everett’s Sweetheart Printing Deal: The Supreme Court Said No
In 1894, Everett’s city council awarded its official printing contract to a bid nearly four times higher than a rival’s. The Washington Supreme Court reversed course, warning that public money was not the council’s to give away.
- State Orders Everett Cannery to Pay Its Women
Washington's industrial welfare committee demands the Everett Fruit Products Company raise piece rates for several hundred women earning below the legal minimum.
- Organizing Women in the Industrial Workforce
Labor organizers discuss the rising number of women in the workforce and the urgent need for unionization to secure basic dignity and safety.
- The Union Label Battle
Everett printers and pressmen revolt against a city attorney’s attempt to strike down a mandate for union-made office supplies.
- Washington Women Win the Vote
Following the historic 1910 election, the Labor Journal celebrates the enfranchisement of women and calls for a new era of worker-led political power.
- Industrial Accident at the Everett Waterfront
A deck hand is critically injured after a barrel of acid falls, highlighting the daily dangers faced by laborers on the docks.
- The Fight for Childhood
A national campaign to end the exploitation of children in the factory system gains ground in state legislatures.
- Everett Candidates Face the 'Improvement Club' Grilling
Local improvement groups and the Socialist Party demand answers on everything from public markets and water works to taxing corporate utilities.
- Rockefeller Closes In on a Puget Sound Company Town
The Everett Land Company could not raise the December interest on its $1 million loan. By summer, insiders expected Rockefeller interests to take full control.
- The Ongoing Fight Against Child Labor
A report on legislative progress and defeats in the movement to protect children from exploitative work in factories and mines.
- The Fight Against Child Labor
A report on the national legislative battle to pull children out of mines and factories.
- The Judiciary vs. The Industrial Worker
A fiery critique of judicial interference in workers' compensation laws, framing court-made obstacles as a betrayal of popular rights.
- The Anatomy of a 'Quitter' in the Labor Movement
A fiery editorial from the era defines the unionist's ideal of solidarity—and the absolute contempt reserved for those who broke ranks.
- The Hard-Won Fight for the Eight-Hour Day
While union machinists in Northern California celebrate a hard-won victory, their counterparts in the Pacific Northwest face strike-breakers and police intimidation.
- The Struggle for Labor's Voice in Olympia
A scathing critique of Washington's 1909 legislative session, highlighting failures in labor protection and the growing influence of corporate lobbyists.
- The Teamsters’ Fight for the Sunday Off
A landmark report on how the International Brotherhood of Teamsters transformed the lives of workers by ending mandatory Sunday labor.
- World Shingle-Packing Championship Crowns Everett's Best
Skilled union workers prove that brainpower beats raw speed in a test of precision at the A.-V.-P. fairgrounds.
- The Global Blacklist Fighting Sailors to the Grave
Thousands of mariners across Europe and America launch a simultaneous strike against the Shipping Federation’s 'discharge book' system.
- The Human Cost of Industrial Progress
Former mine workers' leader John Mitchell calls for an end to the 'iniquitous' liability system that leaves injured American laborers without protection.
- Unionists Call Out Local Church for Using Non-Union Labor
The Everett Trades Council wires the American Federation of Labor, protesting a local Presbyterian church’s choice of an 'unfair' contractor.
- The City's Short-Sighted Employment Plan
Everett's leaders wanted to combine the city's employment office with the mundane task of weighing store scales, a move that critics argued would doom the city's ability to help working people find jobs.
- The City’s Forgotten Protectors
While Everett boasted the best fire record in Washington, its firefighters were the worst-paid in the state and lived nearly as slaves under a grueling 21-hour-a-day duty cycle.
- The Unproven Future of the 'Attractive Townsite'
Northern Pacific President Thomas F. Oakes visits the burgeoning town of Everett in 1892, skeptical of its long-term viability despite the optimism of its East Coast developers.