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| Year | Stories |
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| 1854 | 9 |
| 1858 | 4 |
| 1859 | 7 |
| 1860 | 1 |
| 1861 | 13 |
| 1862 | 8 |
| 1863 | 7 |
| 1864 | 5 |
| 1872 | 39 |
| 1876 | 148 |
| 1877 | 131 |
| 1878 | 78 |
| 1879 | 10 |
| 1880 | 19 |
| 1882 | 17 |
| 1883 | 132 |
| 1884 | 73 |
| 1885 | 92 |
| 1886 | 50 |
| 1887 | 52 |
| 1888 | 109 |
| 1889 | 214 |
| 1890 | 31 |
| 1891 | 171 |
| 1892 | 274 |
| 1893 | 177 |
| 1894 | 279 |
| 1895 | 382 |
| 1896 | 2 |
| 1897 | 18 |
| 1898 | 47 |
| 1899 | 63 |
| 1900 | 9 |
| 1902 | 11 |
| 1903 | 125 |
| 1904 | 100 |
| 1905 | 4 |
| 1907 | 5 |
| 1908 | 56 |
| 1909 | 158 |
| 1910 | 42 |
| 1911 | 24 |
| 1912 | 13 |
| 1914 | 38 |
| 1915 | 45 |
| 1916 | 78 |
| 1917 | 44 |
| 1918 | 11 |
| 1922 | 3 |
| 1923 | 11 |
| 1924 | 7 |
| 1925 | 5 |
| 1928 | 4 |
| 1929 | 4 |
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- The Fight for the First Workers' Compensation Law
A labor advocate makes a passionate plea in Olympia for a state-managed fund to support injured workers, framing it as the only path away from corporate exploitation and legal poverty.
- The Price of Patriotism: Why Congress Ignores Its Own Workers
The Everett Labor Journal skewers federal lawmakers for posturing over international crises while blocking life-saving safety legislation for American laborers.
- The Garment Workers' Cross-Country Crusade
Two strikers from St. Louis arrive in Everett to rally local labor against the unfair practices of the Marx & Haas firm.
- A Rising Tide of Xenophobia in Everett
A hateful editorial in the Labor Journal attacks local immigrants from Southern Europe, blaming them for the city’s economic struggles.
- The Afternoon Everett First Looked Up
In 1911 a 'birdman' circled the mill stacks in a machine of spruce and wire, and the whole town stopped work to watch.
- Everett Voters to Decide on Single Tax Plan
The City Council has moved to place a controversial proposal before the electorate that would eliminate property taxes over four years.
- Death the Price of a Job
A brutal internal railroad memo reveals that safety rules were meant for legal protection, while speed was the only metric that mattered for keeping a job.
- The Labor Inspector Who Got 'Too Close' to the Truth
Blanche Mason is fired from her state post after effectively enforcing labor laws against powerful companies, sparking a fierce reaction from the unions.
- 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.
- The Streetcar Strike at a Boiling Point
A labor leader speaks out against the mayor's accusations of violence and calls for a fair living wage.
- The Socialist Surge
Everett voters deliver a shock to the political establishment as the Socialist vote gains massive traction.
- The Most Progressive Session in Years
Washington's legislature scores a victory for labor with new laws on workmen's compensation, an eight-hour day for women, and the initiative and referendum.
- Everett Unions Rally to Fund McNamara Defense
Facing mounting costs for the McNamara brothers' legal defense, Everett's trade unions plan a benefit ball to challenge the influence of corporate capital.
- The Whistleblower Who Was Silenced by the State
Blanche Mason, a deputy labor commissioner, accused Washington's governor and his labor chief of burying her reports on the exploitation of working women to protect big business interests.
- Labor Editor Calls for Production for Use
H.P. Hughes, editor of The Spokane Labor World, speaks to Everett workers on the power of the labor press and the necessity of shifting away from a profit-driven economy.
- Shingleweavers Push for Living Wages and Health Protections
Organized labor in the Pacific Northwest votes to standardize mill pay and fight predatory company-mandated insurance schemes.
- 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 Streetcar Strike Was Only the Beginning
After forcing the Stone-Webster corporation to yield, Everett’s organized labor sets its sights on public control of utilities.
- The True Cost of a Cigar
A local cigar salesman challenges Everett's 'boosters' to practice what they preach by supporting union-made, home-grown tobacco instead of shipping money East for trust-made goods.
- The Labor Movement's Hard-Won Victory Over the Buck's Stove Co.
After a five-year boycott, the labor press calls for a truce with a once-hostile manufacturer now under new management.
- The Shadowy Policing of Sumner's Iron Works
Everett labor organizers discover that local police badges were secretly handed out to strikebreakers, sparking a call for commission government.
- The Child Who Built Everett’s Prosperity
A haunting, fictionalized account of the daily drudgery faced by child laborers in the early 20th century.
- The Lesson of the Tribes
A labor editorial invokes the history of Indigenous dispossession to argue that unions must unify or face the same fate as the tribes of North America.
- The Price of 'Independence'
A overheard conversation between union workers and non-union polishers reveals the harsh reality of labor exploitation in 1911 Everett.