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| Year | Stories |
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| 1922 | 1 |
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- Labor Blames Railroad's Strike Replacements for a Deadly Wreck Near Everett
After three die in a Great Northern crash north of Everett, the State Federation of Labor tells federal regulators that the road's non-union replacement crews are running unsafe equipment — and that the government shares the blame.
- 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.
- The Lumber Mills Can't Find Skilled Men — Because the Pay Won't Keep Them
A Grays Harbor publicity man blames 'ambition' for the shortage of skilled millworkers. A labor columnist fires back: ambition is exactly why men leave, because common labor in the mills buys only the bare necessities of life.
- Labor Council Meets: Strikers' Relief, a Labor Press, and the Boy Scouts
Hoquiam's Central Labor Council gathers to fund a sick striking carman, cheer its improving Labor Press, and seat delegates on Aberdeen's new Scout council.
- The Fund That Grew While the Injured Went Hungry
Washington's 1911 workmen's compensation law was meant to protect the men who built the state. A decade later, the lumber industry was paying less into the accident fund than ever — and injured workers were getting a fraction of what the cost of living demanded.