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3 stories matching friend
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:friendli, friendless, friendship, friendliest, befriend, unfriend
- A Longstanding Community Presence Fades
The White Bluffs community mourns the passing of Mrs. John Blackler, a resident of many years who died at age 71.
- 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.
- 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.