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| Year | Stories |
|---|---|
| 1909 | 9 |
| 1910 | 3 |
| 1911 | 7 |
| 1912 | 3 |
22 stories matching proper
- Street Robberies Rise in Under-Patrolled Everett
A string of Saturday night muggings in the residential districts has residents on edge, sparking calls to restore police staffing levels.
- Everett’s Baptism by Fire
After major conflagrations reveal a pathetic water supply, local labor leaders demand a municipal water system.
- The Unsung Battle for Workplace Sanitation
A discharged state labor official details the uphill struggle to secure basic sanitary standards for Washington's female industrial workers.
- Labor Council Boycotts New Elks Building
Building trades council declares new Elks lodge unfair and warns union workers to stay off the job.
- Labor paper blasts Great Northern over disaster wages
An editorial criticizes the railroad for paying poverty wages to workers clearing snow in the aftermath of the deadly Wellington avalanche.
- The Dirty Truth Behind Everett’s Kitchens
The Civic League exposes unsanitary conditions in local hotels and cafes, sparking a call for strict health inspections and public accountability.
- A Massive Retirement Haven for Carpenters
A national committee proposes a $350,000 facility for aging and infirm union carpenters, funded by a modest per capita tax.
- The Price of Rent in the Underworld
A local editor exposes how landlords exploit marginalized women through extortionate rent, turning a police court spectacle into a sharp critique of societal hypocrisy.
- The 'Industrial Mendicant' and the Fight for Union Solidarity
A 1909 editorial lambasts workers who accept union-won raises while refusing to pay dues or support the organization.
- Betrayed by the Railroad: The Wellington Disaster Survivors
After the catastrophic avalanche that killed nearly 100, laborers hired for rescue work are abandoned without food or pay, forced to trek 74 miles to Everett.
- The Unlikely Union of School Principals
Teachers form a professional organization in Snohomish County to advocate for better school conditions, wage equality, and teacher efficiency.
- The True Cost of a Cigar
A local cigar salesman challenges Everett's 'boosters' to practice what they preach by supporting union-made, home-grown tobacco instead of shipping money East for trust-made goods.
- The False Doctrine of 'Supply and Demand'
A labor manifesto argues that using the 'cheapest man' to set wage standards is a race to the bottom that threatens the integrity of community and family life.
- Unionists Call Out Local Church for Using Non-Union Labor
The Everett Trades Council wires the American Federation of Labor, protesting a local Presbyterian church’s choice of an 'unfair' contractor.
- Defending the New Workers' Compensation Act
Everett labor leaders push back against corporate attempts to undermine the state's landmark compensation law.
- The Price of Patriotism: Why Congress Ignores Its Own Workers
The Everett Labor Journal skewers federal lawmakers for posturing over international crises while blocking life-saving safety legislation for American laborers.
- The Unseen Power of the Union Household
A labor organizer argues that the path to better wages and shorter hours starts at home, by educating the women who control the family's purchasing power.
- An Aerial Bust at the Snohomish Ball Game
A much-anticipated airplane exhibition turns into a mud-caked failure, but the local baseball game saves the day for the fans.
- The Open Shop Battle for the New High School
Everett labor unions organize a public mass meeting to protest a city high school contract being awarded to an 'open shop' contractor.
- Everett's Economy Drive — While the City Kept Paying Boston for Its Water
As officials cut six policemen to save money, the Labor Journal asked the obvious question: why pay a private company three times what publicly owned Bellingham pays for water and lights?
- 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.
- A Judge Tells Spokane's Restaurant Men Their Strike Injunction Is Worthless
Judge J. Stanley Webster refused to restrain the cooks' and waiters' union, upheld the right to strike and to publish 'union house' cards — a rare courtroom win for organized labor in 1910.