Cigar makers union in Seattle strikes on April 22, 1907.

  • By Greg Lange
  • Posted 5/05/1999
  • HistoryLink.org Essay 1080
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On April 22, 1907, 36 male cigar makers strike a Seattle cigar manufacturer for higher wages.

The strike ended on May 9, 1907, when management accepted the terms specified by the Cigar Makers Union Local No. 188. More than $1,628 in wages were lost during the strike.


Sources:

[Washington] Bureau of Labor, Sixth Biennial Report of the Bureau of Labor Statistics and Factory Inspection 1907-1908 (Olympia: C.W. Gorham, Public Printer, 1908), 47.


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