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58 stories matching scab
- The 'Bullpen' at the Roslyn Mines
When the Northern Pacific Railroad imported scab labor to break a strike in 1888, the local Democratic convention issued a blistering condemnation of the 'armed police' used to coerce workers.
- The Camera as a Weapon on the Picket Line
Local machinists are using photography to document and shame strikebreakers in their ongoing eight-hour day strike.
- Labor Solidarity vs. International Orders
Everett unionists protest the Brick and Stone Masons International for forcing members to work on an 'unfair' job site.
- The Sailors' Strike and the Scab Sailors
Tensions rise at the Seattle waterfront as the Sailors' Union strike continues, with shipowners bypassing union halls to hire non-union crews.
- Quarantine Enforcement on Sprague Street
When parents failed to keep children with smallpox indoors, health officials forcibly removed the family to the pest house.
- The Hay Market Heats Up in the Yakima Valley
As alfalfa prices climb, local agricultural managers weigh the risks of livestock investment against the volatility of the regional market.
- The Persistent Echo of Industrial Unrest
A century-old editorial reflects on the cyclical nature of labor disputes, trade unions, and the recurring arguments over the relationship between capital and labor.
- The 'High-Handed' Abduction of Non-Union Sailors
A group of laborers were forcibly removed from their ship at Port Gamble by a union crowd and sent penniless to Victoria under false pretenses.
- The Silent Advocate for Labor
A deaf mute worker seeks a union shop, shaming non-union men with his commitment to organized labor.
- Smelter Boarding House Reduced to Ash After Brawl
A drunken dispute between boarders turned into an explosive inferno at the smelter district, leaving residents fleeing for their lives.
- The Newsboys' War Against the Ledger
Tacoma’s newspaper war turns street-level as organized newsboys mobilize to block the sale of a scab publication.
- The Eight-Hour War: Metal Trades Try to Block Panama Fair
Everett labor leaders expose an attempt by regional employers to force open-shop conditions on the San Francisco World's Fair.
- The Day Tacoma's Newsboys Went on Strike
Forty newsboys organized a blockade against the evening paper's manager, demanding return privileges for unsold copies.
- Seattle Streetcar Strike Paralyzes City Transit
After the street railway company rejected arbitration, union workers walked off the job, leading to armed scabs and threats of a city-wide sympathetic strike.
- The Frontier Has Closed: A Warning to Labor
Raymond Robbins, a seasoned labor organizer, speaks to Everett workers about the vanishing frontier and the coming industrial struggle.
- The Mother Who Disowned Her Son for Crossing the Picket Line
When a young foreman chose to break a strike rather than stand with his union, his mother publicly rejected his 'blood money' and reminded him of the solidarity that had saved their family.
- 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 Pullman Strike hits Seattle
Striking railway workers and curious mobs gather at the Columbia Street depot, testing the city's resolve during the national railway paralysis.
- Champagne for the Lobby, Despair for the Farmers
Washington's Senate kills the Helm-Morgan freight-rate bill after railroad agents work Olympia, and the state's press calls it a corporate victory over the people.
- The Great 'Ten-Cent' Grandstand Skirmish
Seattle baseball management deploys canvas walls to block fans watching games for free from outside Madison Street Park.
- Frost Takes Half the Potato Crop: Kennewick Growers Face Lean Season
A cold spring and killing frosts cut the early potato yield nearly in half, leaving growers with only 20 cars instead of the usual 40—but prices remain strong.
- A Railroad Strike Tests Seattle's Union Solidarity—and the Courts
As Great Northern strikers held firm, a federal injunction and a trainload of deputy marshals moved against them, while Seattle union men rallied at Labor hall and organized along the line at Skykomish.
- 'We Can Fight Both Them and the Company': Seattle's Railroad Strike Falters
As Northern Pacific engineers straggle back to work in Tacoma and Seattle, a union chairman vows to fight on — while dynamite vanishes and a log train is fired on near Puyallup.
- The Soldiers Who Refused to Ride With Scabs
During the Pullman strike, a Washington National Guard company mutinied rather than travel on a train crewed by non-union men—and the colonel who disarmed them said the whole unit should be disbanded.
- A Second Railroad Strike Threatens Seattle as Union Demands Great Northern Stand Down
Seattle's American Railway Union president receives a telegram from Chicago ordering a halt to Great Northern's assistance to other roads — and local trainmen brace for another walkout.