Everett Trades Council Takes Stand on Municipal Water
Organized labor in Everett throws its weight behind a push for city-owned water utilities and conservation efforts.
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The Wednesday night session of the Everett Trades Council was called to order at 8 p.m. by President Stambaugh with a fair attendance of delegates. Delegate Roberts spoke at some length on the recent move on the part of members of the city council to establish a municipal water system and warmly commended the work of Councilman Philips. The council voted to endorse the plan of having the city own and operate its own water system, and the secretary was instructed to send a letter of thanks to Councilman Philips. The council also unanimously passed a resolution protesting against the surrender of the nation's natural resources to great corporations, specifically citing coal lands and power sites held by the government.
“Resolved, That the Everett Trades Council enters its most emphatic protest against giving the people's property to the great corporations.”
Everett's long history of civic ownership over essential infrastructure like the PUD—which evolved from these early 20th-century labor battles—remains a core tenet of the city's political identity against private utility monopolies.
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