Everett's Organized Labor Takes a Stand on Plumbing and Politics
The Everett Trades Council maneuvers to secure a union-backed plumbing inspector and coordinates a new central body for local unions.
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The Everett Trades Council met in regular session last Wednesday night with a good attendance of delegates present. The council concurred in the action of the plumbers' union in endorsing a member of their organization, Theo. Zeigler, for appointment by the mayor for plumbing inspector. The plan of forming a new sectional central body to embrace practically every union in the city was taken up and discussed at some length. The chair appointed a committee of five to draw up a preliminary outline of a constitution and by-laws to govern the new body. Every delegate is urged to be present and unions not affiliated with the council at the present time are urged to send representatives.
“The council concurred in the action of the plumbers' union in endorsing a member of their organization... for appointment by the mayor for plumbing inspector.”
The council's efforts to influence municipal appointments and consolidate labor power remain the fundamental blueprint for civic advocacy in Everett. The push to control local regulatory roles like plumbing inspectors shows how labor unions historically acted as a shadow government to ensure public standards and union jobs.
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