A Storefront for the Jobless: Seattle's Co-operative Relief Effort
The Industrial Co-operative Society opens quarters in North Seattle to feed and find work for about 100 unemployed men.
The Industrial Co-operative Society has secured quarters on West Street in North Seattle and, through the contributions of friends, has purchased a store and is striving to care for about 100 unemployed men. The society is ready to supply help to any one needing men, either one man or any of them. Flour and food have been contributed, and with the committee at work donations are coming in daily. Donations of fifty cents, twenty-five cents and one dollar were reported Saturday.
“The society is ready to supply help to any one needing men, either one man or any of them.”
Before unemployment insurance and public welfare, mutual-aid societies like this one filled the gap. Seattle's current debates over homelessness and day labor echo the same question: who is responsible for the out-of-work?
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