Seattle's Streetcar Strike Tensions
Unionized streetcar workers in Seattle threaten to blacklist strike-breakers as the city monitors labor unrest.
Seattle, Sept. 11.—The men who organized the strike-breaking street car union here are given till tomorrow night to affiliate with the regular street car union or be blacklisted and boycotted by the organized labor of the city. The strike is in status quo until Cornelius arrives from San Francisco. All cars are running as usual today.
“The men who organized the strike-breaking street car union here are given till tomorrow night to affiliate with the regular street car union or be blacklisted and boycotted.”
Seattle has a long and volatile history of labor militancy, particularly regarding transit and infrastructure. This episode reflects the fierce internal battles between organized labor and employer-supported 'company unions' that defined Western labor relations in the early 1900s.
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