Labor Day at Madison Park—and a Boycott Aimed at Minneapolis
Seattle union delegates planned a citywide Labor Day celebration and answered a flour-mill wage cut in Minneapolis with a boycott.
LABOR MATTERS.
Will Celebrate Labor Day at Madison Park.
The central labor union, with representatives from every union in the city present, decided to celebrate Labor Day at Madison Park. The celebration is intended to be one long to be remembered. Baseball matches will help make it a day for laboring people, and the price of admission will be placed within reach of all. The athletic committee is hard at work arranging the sports.
A communication from the Minneapolis Packers and Salters was received, urging a boycott against the Burn-Crosby mills because of a reduction of wages from $2.75 to $1.75 per day. After several speeches the union decided to give public meetings in aid of labor.
“A communication from the Minneapolis Packers and Salters was received, urging a boycott against the Burn-Crosby mills because of a reduction of wages from $2.75 to $1.75 per day.”
Seattle's labor movement once used a holiday picnic and a national boycott to argue that local workers had a stake in wages far beyond Puget Sound. The same tension—between local solidarity and distant corporate decisions—still shapes today's labor fights.
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