On April 22, 1913, some 260 wireless telegraph operators employed by the Marconi Company along the Pacific Coast strike for increased wages. Nearly all shore-to-ship communications are shut down. The operators are striking for an increase in wages. Their wages range from $30.00 to $45.00 per month and the operators want them to go up to $65.00 to $75.00 per month.
The strike ended in a compromise.
Sources:
[Washington State] Bureau of Labor, Ninth Biennial Report of the Bureau of Labor Statistics and Factory Inspection 1913-1914 (Olympia: Frank M. Lamborn, Public Printer, 1914), 124-125.
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