200 Coal Miners Take Their Wage Cut to Court
Workers at the Seattle Coal and Iron Company petition a judge to force the receiver to restore their old pay.
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The petition of John Hassett for himself and 200 other employees of the Seattle Coal and Iron Company, praying the court to compel the receiver, J. H. Bryant, to restore wages to the figure prevailing before he cut them down, was filed in the superior court yesterday, together with Judge Langley's order instructing the receiver to appear before him August 10 and show cause why the petitioners' prayers should not be granted.
“praying the court to compel the receiver ... to restore wages to the figure prevailing before he cut them down”
Wage cuts imposed by a receiver during a corporate collapse are an old Seattle story. Then as now, workers turned to the courts when the boss—or the bank—cut their pay, arguing that a receiver had no right to rewrite their livelihoods.
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