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| Year | Stories |
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| 1854 | 6 |
| 1859 | 1 |
| 1861 | 4 |
| 1862 | 4 |
| 1863 | 5 |
| 1864 | 2 |
| 1872 | 15 |
| 1876 | 105 |
| 1877 | 95 |
| 1878 | 58 |
| 1879 | 11 |
| 1880 | 16 |
| 1882 | 12 |
| 1883 | 61 |
| 1884 | 36 |
| 1885 | 135 |
| 1886 | 90 |
| 1887 | 79 |
| 1888 | 67 |
| 1889 | 147 |
| 1890 | 19 |
| 1891 | 94 |
| 1892 | 297 |
| 1893 | 243 |
| 1894 | 233 |
| 1895 | 130 |
| 1896 | 1 |
| 1897 | 7 |
| 1898 | 7 |
| 1899 | 31 |
| 1900 | 4 |
| 1902 | 8 |
| 1903 | 90 |
| 1904 | 98 |
| 1905 | 6 |
| 1907 | 1 |
| 1908 | 17 |
| 1909 | 156 |
| 1910 | 119 |
| 1911 | 108 |
| 1912 | 43 |
| 1914 | 19 |
| 1915 | 8 |
| 1916 | 30 |
| 1917 | 19 |
| 1918 | 3 |
| 1922 | 4 |
| 1923 | 13 |
| 1924 | 5 |
| 1925 | 1 |
| 1928 | 4 |
| 1929 | 9 |
7 stories matching labor
- Tragedy in the Spokane Excavations
A laborer is killed and his foreman injured after a delayed dynamite blast detonates during construction work on First Avenue.
- An Army of Harvest Hands Rides the Rails Into Eastern Washington
With California's fields barren, thousands of laborers descend on the region's mammoth crops — arriving on foot, on freight trains, and under the noses of train crews.
- The New Gem Restaurant Advertises Employment Stance
A popular Ellensburg eatery signals its alignment with the era's exclusionary labor policies through a public advertisement.
- The Price of a Saloon Brawl
A local man is fined for striking a peer after an argument, sparking local commentary on the behavior of transient laborers in town.
- The Farmers' Grange Declares War on the Mortgage System
Washington's State Grange master lays out a platform against credit, monopolies and 'exorbitant per cent profits' — while insisting the order is not political.
- The Berry Math That Made Puyallup
A fruit-growers' manager laid out the 1898 economics of Western Washington berries: $1 a crate, 75-cent hired labor, and a cannery on the horizon.
- The $80,000 Cranberry Bog Behind the Ilwaco Beach
A state commissioner tours Pacific County's cranberry marsh — 1,600 acres, 7,280 bushels shipped to San Francisco, 200 pickers at fifty cents a bushel, and a company openly hoping to replace its Chinese crew with white labor.