A State-Wide Push for the Eight-Hour Day
Following a strike in the Pacific Northwest, the Washington State Federation of Labor moves to consolidate metal trades to demand shorter hours.
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The Washington State Federation of Labor, meeting in Olympia, passed resolutions supporting the striking machinists who have been fighting for an eight-hour day since June 1910. The Federation is urging all central labor bodies to form a unified front among metal trades—including moulders, patternmakers, and blacksmiths—to leverage their collective power against employers. They are recommending a 10-cent monthly assessment per member to financially sustain the strike and calling on all unionized workers to divert contracts away from firms that refuse to concede to eight-hour demands.
“Capital is not organized on craft union principles. One organization and one label, the dollar mark, is a better working proposition.”
The strategy of 'solidarity'—linking multiple trades and crafts together to force concession—remains the fundamental blueprint for modern labor organizing in Everett's industrial sectors.
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