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| Year | Stories |
|---|---|
| 1909 | 4 |
| 1910 | 8 |
| 1911 | 2 |
| 1912 | 3 |
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- The Price of Industrial Growth
A scathing critique of Teddy Roosevelt's 'Homes Commission' report reveals the deadly reality behind the era's industrial boom.
- The Case for Ending Local Option Prohibition
A 1909 editorial argues that 'local option' is an ineffective, demoralizing policy and suggests an elected board of excise commissioners as a better way to regulate the liquor trade.
- The City's Short-Sighted Employment Plan
Everett's leaders wanted to combine the city's employment office with the mundane task of weighing store scales, a move that critics argued would doom the city's ability to help working people find jobs.
- The Shadow Police of Everett
A labor newspaper questions why a private corporation’s security, rather than city police, is patrolling public infrastructure during a machinist strike.
- The Union Boycott of Everett's Hotels
Traveling union members and state examiners inadvertently patronize hotels blacklisted by local labor organizers.
- The Laundry Strike Solidifies
Everett labor organizers celebrate the unexpected solidarity between laundry workers and their delivery drivers as the community rallies to the cause.
- The Union Frisking Committee
Everett union members turn to direct enforcement of the union label, fining fellow workers who wear non-union clothing.
- Deforestation and the Cost of Disaster
An editorial reflection on Everett’s regional flooding, linking unchecked industrial logging to the destruction of homes and property.
- The Thankless Task of Union Leadership
An editorial on the burnout and internal conflict that plagued local labor unions in Everett.
- Metal Workers Strike Against the Eight-Hour Day Opposition
Strikers in the metal trades enter their sixth month of labor action, defying industry leaders like Harrison Gray Otis who seek to suppress the eight-hour workday.
- The Fight for a Juvenile Officer
Community members push for the appointment of a female juvenile officer to protect vulnerable girls, despite political pushback and accusations of outsiders interfering in local county affairs.
- The Looming Gate: Labor and the Fear of the Canal
As the opening of the Panama Canal approached, the Everett Trades Council lobbied for strict immigration restrictions, fearing a flood of 'undesirables' into Pacific ports.
- The Labor Journal’s Feud with 'Postum'
A scathing takedown of a billionaire's anti-union newspaper advertisements.
- 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 Rule That Told Workingmen to Keep Out of Politics
Everett's Labor Journal goes after Roosevelt's civil service order, arguing that machinists and mechanics in government shops are muzzled while partisan appointees run the machine — and quotes Grover Cleveland back at the administration to prove it.
- Governor Hay Wants to Appoint, Not Elect, Washington's Officers—This Labor Editor Says No
A proposal to make state offices appointive sparks a fierce defense of the direct primary and the people's right to choose their own officials.
- The Saloon Was Their Paycheck: Everett Labor’s Fight Against Prohibition
In November 1910, Everett’s union locals — cigar makers, brewery workers, bartenders, cooks and waiters — urged a vote for license, warning that Prohibition would throw hundreds out of work and scatter their families.