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| Year | Stories |
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| 1909 | 2 |
| 1910 | 1 |
3 stories matching sweatshop
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- The Union Label as a Weapon for Economic Justice
Everett workers are urged to boycott 'sweatshop' products and prioritize union-made goods to protect their own livelihoods.
- The Price of Five Cents an Hour
A labor organizer’s fiery speech in Everett challenges the exploitation of women workers and demands legislative protection for their health.
- The Labor Journal’s Defense of the Working Class
An Everett editorial invokes Lincoln to critique the 'damnable' industrial conditions and the 'open shop' movement of 1910.
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- The Radical Defense of Sweat Equity
In an 1876 editorial, a fierce local voice challenges the city’s idle wealthy to stop 'illustrating fashion's caprices' and embrace the dignity of physical labor.
- The Millionaire's Son and the 'Sweat Box'
A wealthy merchant's son is detained in the city's 'sweat box' after a drunken theft of a diamond bracelet, revealing the rough-and-tumble nature of frontier justice.
- The Union Label Inspection
Everett shingle weavers form a committee to enforce labor solidarity by auditing the hats of their fellow workers.
- The Union Hat Inspection
Everett shingle weavers take a stand to enforce union purchasing power.
- The Seattle Boiler Strike of 1888
Striking workers reject 'scab' labor and call for higher wages in a booming city.
- The Weather Bureau's Secret Weapon
An Aberdeen inventor was caught with a bizarre, Gattling-gun-style contraption designed to blast the clouds away and control the rain.
- The 'Pepper Box' Mill in the Wilderness
While critics claimed opportunity for the working man was dead, four shingle weavers built a successful, portable mill in the Everett outskirts.
- Ezra Meeker’s Golden Rules for Hop Success
The legendary pioneer shares his controversial methods for baling hops hot to secure the crucial foreign market.