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25 stories matching weaver
- Fatal Shooting in Lewis County
A long-standing quarrel over farm boundaries and livestock ends in tragedy near Boisfort.
- Shingle Weavers Choose Shutdown Over Pay Cuts
Workers in Tacoma and the Puget Sound area reject a proposed 25 percent wage reduction, preferring to see mills close entirely.
- The Land Locators Who Left Town on a Fraudulent Fortune
A band of swindlers targeting Seattle settlers skipped town, leaving behind forged documents and a trail of broken promises that the law couldn't quite reach.
- The Populist Firebrand Comes to Seattle
Mary Elizabeth Lease and General James B. Weaver draw an massive, curious crowd to the Seattle Opera House to debate the 'robberies' of the wealthy.
- The Shingle Weavers' Wage Cut
Facing a volatile market, the West Coast Shingle Weavers' Union adopts a 15 to 20 percent pay cut to keep mills running.
- An Unexplained Blaze in Ballard
A house belonging to a shingle weaver is destroyed by a suspicious fire in Ballard, potentially linked to labor unrest.
- The Shingle Weavers Take a Stand
A local union leader warns mill owners that workers are ready to strike over wage cuts and 'starvation' prices.
- The Shingle Weavers' Stand
Ballard shingle mill workers refuse a wage reduction, leading to a clash as manufacturers attempt to bring in non-union replacement labor.
- Shingle Weavers Say Railroads and Brokers Are Gutting Their Pay
A Mount Vernon letter warns that a fight over state shingle weights is really a fight over whether workers get a fair price.
- Labor Conflict Turns Violent in Ballard
A shingle-weaver's dispute in Ballard leads to an aggressive confrontation between union and non-union workers.
- The Auld Mill Experiment
Shingle weavers launch a cooperative, sharing the risks and rewards of their labor during a period of economic uncertainty.
- Tension and Sabotage at the Shingle Mill
A labor dispute between union shingle weavers and mill operators descends into machine sabotage and unemployment.
- Vandals Target Seattle Shingle Mills Amid Labor Unrest
Striking shingle weavers are suspected of sabotage at the Stimson and Cedar Lumber Company mills, marking a tense escalation in local labor disputes.
- Shingle Workers Defy Wage Cuts in Ballard
The Grand Lodge of the Washington Shingle Weavers Union resolves to stand against mill owners as labor tensions rise.
- Ballard Mill Workers Win Wage Fight
After an attempt to cut pay, Ballard shingle mill workers successfully pressured owners to maintain the old wage scale.
- The Great Northern Hotel Burned to the Ground in Mount Vernon
A three-story frame hotel near the depot was gone within minutes, and twenty-five lodgers barely escaped with their lives.
- The Collapse of a Ballard Mill Experiment
A Ballard shingle mill abandons its profit-sharing model, citing employee friction and union wage pressures.
- The Politics of Snake Oil
A scathing editorial comparing the Populist movement to medical quackery and the sensationalism of the era's 'wonder books.'
- The Cedar Boom Transforms Edmonds
A surge in timber production is turning the small town into a bustling manufacturing hub, quickly exhausting the local supply of vacant housing.
- The Shingle Mill Strike Turns Violent
A simmering industrial dispute at a Seattle mill boils over into a public brawl, threatening the peace of the streets.
- The Shingle War at Ballard
Workers at the Seattle Cedar Lumber and Stimson mills walk off the job to resist a wage-cutting campaign, testing the limits of non-union labor.
- The Pioneer Shingle-Packer of Snohomish County
A young woman who made waves in the male-dominated world of shingle mills at Getchell has moved on to a new role as a teacher.
- A Norwegian Teamster's Last Will: Despair, Disease, and a Sweetheart Left Behind
Fred Syvrud, a 36-year-old teamster, took his own life in a Seattle boarding house, leaving his property to a woman in Norway and blaming an incurable disease.
- Seattle’s Burglary Panic Didn’t Survive the Record Book
Police Chief Rogers pushed back on calls to expand the force, producing department figures that showed theft reports down by half—and blamed the rest on sneak thieves rather than professionals.
- A Walla Walla Pastor Defends the Prison's Sunday 'Boxing Bouts'
Rector W. Law writes to defend Warden Coblenz and the penitentiary's Sunday programs, insisting the glove contests that scandalized critics were gentler than a schoolyard game.