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| Year | Stories |
|---|---|
| 1883 | 2 |
| 1889 | 2 |
| 1890 | 22 |
| 1891 | 153 |
| 1892 | 130 |
| 1893 | 85 |
| 1894 | 72 |
| 1895 | 7 |
| 1903 | 5 |
| 1909 | 1 |
| 1910 | 4 |
| 1912 | 2 |
| 1914 | 3 |
| 1923 | 3 |
| 1925 | 1 |
4 stories
- The Old Mayor and the Revolving Door
After cycling through three police chiefs in three months, 80-year-old Mayor A.G. Hopkins has been forced out of office by the city’s business leaders.
- The Organizer Who Warned That Immigration Was Being Used to Break Labor
A traveling Journeymen Barbers' organizer tells the Aberdeen Central Labor Council that big employers want a surplus of foreign workers — not to fill jobs, but to dictate wages.
- Labor Looks Back on 1922 and Finds Its Own Strength
The official organ of the Aberdeen Central Labor Council takes stock of a year of strikes — miners, railroad shopmen, and a political awakening — and declares the destiny of labor is in its own keeping.
- The Rich Dodge the Tax Collector While the Rest of Us Pay
A labor paper seethes over a Supreme Court ruling that let corporations issue stock dividends tax-free — and demands the working class stop carrying the burden of government.