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| Year | Stories |
|---|---|
| 1858 | 7 |
| 1859 | 4 |
| 1860 | 2 |
| 1861 | 8 |
| 1862 | 2 |
| 1863 | 4 |
| 1864 | 3 |
| 1865 | 3 |
| 1872 | 3 |
| 1876 | 54 |
| 1877 | 46 |
| 1878 | 26 |
| 1879 | 5 |
| 1880 | 19 |
| 1882 | 5 |
| 1883 | 49 |
| 1884 | 41 |
| 1885 | 56 |
| 1886 | 26 |
| 1887 | 16 |
| 1888 | 27 |
| 1889 | 63 |
| 1890 | 9 |
| 1891 | 36 |
| 1892 | 122 |
| 1893 | 98 |
| 1894 | 113 |
| 1895 | 122 |
| 1897 | 5 |
| 1898 | 16 |
| 1899 | 15 |
| 1900 | 2 |
| 1902 | 2 |
| 1903 | 28 |
| 1904 | 24 |
| 1905 | 2 |
| 1907 | 2 |
| 1908 | 24 |
| 1909 | 68 |
| 1910 | 16 |
| 1911 | 4 |
| 1912 | 2 |
| 1914 | 6 |
| 1915 | 5 |
| 1916 | 6 |
| 1917 | 2 |
| 1922 | 1 |
| 1923 | 1 |
| 1924 | 1 |
| 1928 | 2 |
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- Tragedy in the Well Shaft
A well-digger and his rescuers succumb to toxic gas in an Edmonds excavation.
- Labor’s Olympia Push: A Fight Over What an Injured Worker’s Life Is Worth
As the Washington legislature opened, the State Federation of Labor pressed for higher workmen’s compensation awards, child-labor protections and limits on prison-made goods — while employers organized a lobby to stop them.
- Should Seattle Have a Filipino Labor Commissioner?
A 1923 community-paper debate pits a call for Filipino labor representation against a columnist who says the workers should simply go home.
- Labor's Third-Party Question: Washington's Federation Chief Reports from Cleveland
After a Seattle paper misreported a vote to launch an independent party, State Federation of Labor president William H. Johnston sets the record straight: organized labor chose to keep working with the A.F. of L. and progressive allies rather than split the vote in 1924.
- A Chinese Student's 1929 Speech Named the Racism Washington Tried to Forget
At the University of Washington's Cosmopolitan Club, Wesley Kai Hwa Kwang catalogued a century of anti-Chinese violence — including the 1885 killings in Squak Valley and the burning of Tacoma's Chinatown — and asked a white audience to account for it.