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2 stories matching piec
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:pie, piecem, pier, apiec, pierc, pierr
- The Politics of Scabbing
A scathing editorial in the Labor Journal attacks a city council candidate for his history of crossing picket lines at the Sumner Iron Works.
- The Coal Miner Who Took the Capitol: Labor's 1911 Push in Olympia
Four hundred union delegates descended on the legislature, and a soft-spoken miner made the case for workmen's compensation — while the federation set its sights on women's eight-hour work and direct legislation.