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163 stories
- Labor Organizer Accuses Judge Burke in 1886 Seattle Anti-Chinese Riots
A labor organizer confronts a political candidate over his role in the 1886 Seattle riots and the killing of a protester.
- Labor Groups Mobilize Against Japanese Workers in Mukilteo
Everett labor leaders join forces with local clubs to push for the exclusion of Japanese employees from the Crown Lumber Company plant.
- The Laundry Strike of 1910
Striking laundry workers in Everett launch a campaign for higher wages and against the 'laundry trust,' enlisting public support to run their own mobile collection service.
- Forced Expulsion of Japanese Workers
Citizens in Darrington organize to forcibly remove immigrant laborers from town.
- 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.
- Mukilteo Residents Battle to Oust Japanese Workers
A simmering local movement against the employment of Japanese workers at a Mukilteo mill intensifies as residents plan a mass protest in Everett.
- Mukilteo Workers Refuse Japanese Labor
A town committee clashes with the Crown Mill company over the employment of Japanese workers, signaling rising anti-immigrant tensions in the region.
- Betrayed by the Railroad: The Wellington Disaster Survivors
After the catastrophic avalanche that killed nearly 100, laborers hired for rescue work are abandoned without food or pay, forced to trek 74 miles to Everett.
- Abandoned and Starving in the Mountains
After the Wellington disaster, laborers recount being treated like 'cattle' by the Great Northern Railway while awaiting unpaid wages.
- The Mukilteo Protest
Citizens confront a local lumber company over the hiring of Asian laborers.
- The Ghost of the Seattle Riots
A labor organizer confronts senatorial candidate Thomas Burke over his role in the 1886 anti-Chinese expulsions, challenging the sanitized historical narratives of his political campaign.
- Who Polices the Strikers?
Everett labor leaders demand transparency after discovering private companies were deputizing their own strike-breakers as law enforcement.
- The Strikebreakers Who Became Policemen
During a four-month strike at Sumner Iron Works, Everett's police commission armed strikebreakers with police authority—and the Labor Journal demanded to know who was protecting whom.
- Disgraced Banker Prepares to Face the Music
After the collapse of the Home Securities Bank in Bellingham, the fugitive president returns to answer for the $300,000 loss.
- The Mukilteo Exclusion Movement
Everett and Mukilteo citizens organize a public protest against the employment of Japanese laborers in the local mills.
- The False Deputy of the Snohomish River Bridge
A machinist strike in Everett turns into a legal farce when a 'special police officer' is revealed to be a hired gun without any official authority.
- Everett Labor Joins Nationwide Rebellion Against U.S. Steel
Local union leaders rally to the national call to challenge the 'autocratic domination' of the steel industry as conflict over the open shop reaches a breaking point.
- The Parasite Trade: Fighting the Employment Sharks
A scathing report to the State Federation of Labor exposes how corrupt employment agencies trap migratory laborers in a cycle of debt and exploitation.
- The Women Taking Over the Anti-Japanese Boycott in Mukilteo
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.
- Mukilteo residents protest Japanese labor at Crown Lumber Company
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 Campaign to Push Japanese Workers Out of Mukilteo
The 'All-American League' sends a petition to the Crown Lumber Company demanding the dismissal of immigrant workers.
- The 'White Man's Country' Rally
A contentious anti-Asian labor meeting in Mukilteo proceeds despite alleged sabotage by corporate interests.
- The Struggle for Mukilteo
Citizens and labor organizers intensify their campaign to drive Japanese laborers out of the local mill company.
- The Racial and Economic Tensions of the Pacific Coast
A widely reprinted analysis examines the influx of Chinese, Japanese, and Hindu laborers into the Pacific Northwest and the resulting labor conflicts.
- Everett Machinists Strike for the Eight-Hour Day
As local metal workers walk off the job, the Chamber of Commerce hides behind 'open shop' rhetoric to suppress the growing union movement.