Keyword(s): Ross Rieder
Dave Beck was a key leader of the Teamster's Union on the West Coast for some 40 years, from the late 1920s to the early 1960s. He moved to Seattle at age 4 and began his career as a child delivering ...
On April 22, 1948, the Aeronautical Machinists Union, IAM District Lodge 751, struck the Boeing Company. William Allen was then president of Boeing. For the Machinists the issues were preserving longs...
The Industrial Workers of the World, or IWW, was founded in 1905 in Chicago, and by 1908 had become influential among migrant laborers in the Pacific Northwest. Members were dubbed "Wobblies" and soon...
Terry Pettus was a progressive-minded newspaper reporter who became Washington state's first member of the American Newspaper Guild. He was a key organizer of the Seattle chapter of the Guild, which i...
Seattle-born activist and musician Earl H. Robinson is remembered for writing some of the labor movement's most famous ballads, including "I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night." Robinson attended West ...
From August 19 to November 29, 1936, 35 newspaper writers employed by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer went on strike. (The newspaper had about 70 employees on the news staff, including reporters, libra...
The Seattle Union Record, published from 1899 to 1928, was labor's voice in the Pacific Northwest for nearly 30 years, reaching a peak circulation of 80,000, and achieving its greatest fame during the...
In early 1944, a few score engineers at the Boeing Company founded the Seattle Professional Engineering Employees Association. Although not quite a union in the traditional sense, the new group worked...
Along with every other major West Coast port, Seattle's harbor was paralyzed from May 9 to July 31, 1934, by one of the most important and bitter labor strikes of the twentieth century. The struggle p...
On January 1, 1909, a City of Spokane ordinance prohibiting street meetings becomes effective. The ordinance is directed against street demonstrations being carried out by a militant labor union, the ...
On November 2, 1909, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or Wobblies) formally begins the Spokane free-speech fight. This is a civil disobedience action mounted in public defiance of a Spokane Ci...
On March 4, 1912, sawmill workers in Hoquiam, located on Grays Harbor on the Olympic Peninsula, go out on strike. Within a few days the strike spreads to Raymond, Cosmopolis, and Aberdeen, nearby lumb...
In May 1913, loggers in Grays Harbor County and vicinity vote to strike. The strikers are members of the Forest & Lumber Workers Union of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). The strike vote...
On September 25, 1916, 46 members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) are arrested in North Yakima in the midst of a large street meeting intended to persuade apple pickers to ask for a bette...
On March 5, 1917, the Lumber Workers Industrial Union, IWW, holds its founding convention in Spokane. The union, which includes both loggers and sawmill workers, is a unit within the Industrial Worker...
On June 16, 1917, soldiers and sailors attack the Seattle office of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or Wobblies). Instead of protecting the office from attack, Seattle police arrest 41 member...
On August 19, 1917, the Spokane office of the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World, or Wobblies) is raided, leaders are arrested, and martial law is declared. The military authority is the National Gu...
On November 30, 1917, the first local of the U.S. War Department's Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen forms. The Loyal Legion is the government's effort to increase Northwest spruce-log production ...
On December 28, 1917, the Western Pine Manufacturers, located in Eastern Washington and Idaho, drop the idea of the eight-hour day that they accepted earlier in the month. A unsuccessful strike for th...
In October 1934, West Coast longshoremen win a victory in an arbitrated settlement to one of the most important and bitter labor strikes of the twentieth century. The strike lasted from May 9 to July ...
On April 22, 1948, the Aeronautical Machinists Union, IAM District Lodge 751, begins a long and bitter strike against the Boeing Company. Machinists will return to work on September 13, 1948, without ...