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| Year | Stories |
|---|---|
| 1909 | 3 |
| 1910 | 3 |
| 1911 | 4 |
| 1912 | 1 |
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- The Financial Cost of the Temperance Fight
A state supreme court ruling creates a $42,000 budget deficit for Everett, leaving the city to grapple with the economic fallout of its prohibitionist policies.
- The Shingle Weavers' Mobile Union Strategy
When the workers couldn't come to the union meeting, the union decided to bring the meeting to the woods.
- Everett Faces Crucial Bond Election
A skeptical labor press weighs in on the city's proposed bond issue, noting the deep-seated distrust of the current business-led administration.
- The Teamsters’ Fight for the Sunday Off
A landmark report on how the International Brotherhood of Teamsters transformed the lives of workers by ending mandatory Sunday labor.
- The Struggle for Dignity in Old Age
An editorial reflection on the cruelty of industrial labor and the call for systemic justice for elderly workers.
- The True Cost of Living
A haunting poem from the era exposes the impossibility of supporting a family on a mill worker's starvation wage.
- The 'Unfair List' War
A local businessman threatens a newspaper editor over his inclusion on a labor union's blacklist, sparking a clash over the power of organized labor in Everett.
- The Jailhouse Verdict on the Boycott
When the Supreme Court targeted the leaders of the American Federation of Labor for organizing a boycott against the Buck Stove and Range Company, the Everett Labor Journal declared it a fundamental attack on free speech.
- The True Cost of a Working Family's Survival
A Spokane laborer’s wife shares a harrowing account of household expenses, revealing that despite steady employment, her family is left with nearly nothing for clothing or healthcare.
- A Final Insult for a Fallen Engineer
After an Everett railroad engineer died in a tragic mountain fall, his employers refused to pay for his transport, offering only a boxcar for the journey home.
- The Coal Miner Who Took the Capitol: Labor's 1911 Push in Olympia
Four hundred union delegates descended on the legislature, and a soft-spoken miner made the case for workmen's compensation — while the federation set its sights on women's eight-hour work and direct legislation.