Union Boycotts and Labor Organizing
The Everett Trades Council takes a hard line against non-union businesses and 'unfair' contractors in a display of organized labor's local muscle.
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The Council held its regular session last Wednesday night. The Elks' Minstrel show, which will appear in the Everett Theatre November 22 and 23, was placed on the unfair list and members of organized labor are requested to keep away. It will be remembered that the local lodge of Elks let the contract of building their new building to Sampson, the unfair contractor. Mr. Osborne of the All White American League was before the council and gave an outline of the work that the organization is doing towards Japanese exclusion. Mr. Geo. E. Westman of the meat market at 19th and Wetmore appeared before the council and agreed that he would handle no more Carstens meat. Upon these conditions his market was stricken from the list.
“Members of organized labor are requested to keep away.”
The aggressive use of 'unfair lists' by labor councils illustrates the power dynamic of the early 20th-century labor movement in Everett, while the presence of the 'All White American League' provides a sobering, vital look at the era's exclusionary politics and anti-Asian sentiment.
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