Everett Workers Plan Their Own Home
Local union members launch a stock drive to fund a permanent headquarters for the Everett Trades Council.
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A special meeting of the stockholders of the Everett Trades Building Association was held in the Temple last week for the purpose of voting an increase in the capital stock of the association. The stock was raised from 4,000 shares, common, to 10,000 shares, common. As soon as the legal formality of recording the increase with the secretary of state is concluded, 4,000 shares at a dollar each will be placed on the market. The effect of the increase in capitalization is to procure funds to procure a suitable building site for the erection in the future of a modern Labor Temple. Every union in the city should help to make those plans a reality and they can do it if they will all get in and help.
“Every union in the city should help to make those plans a reality and they can do it if they will all get in and help.”
Long before the modern labor movement sought dedicated spaces for community organizing, Everett’s unions were already treating physical infrastructure as a pillar of their power. This effort mirrors the ongoing, difficult modern struggle to secure affordable, permanent community spaces in a rapidly developing city.
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