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Wallis and Marilyn Kimble Northwest History Database
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    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Strikes and riots. 1935-05-16


    • Strike closes another mill - 3200 lumber workers in Portland idle - central door plant crews quit on picketing by 200 union men

    • 1935

    • Strike closes another mill - 3200 lumber workers in Portland idle - central door plant crews quit on picketing by 200 union men - Another Portland mill fell under the pressure of the northwest lumber strike yesterday and swelled the city's total of...
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Strikes and riots. 1935-05-16
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1929-05-13


    • Butte labor idle

    • 1929

    • Butte labor idle - Bute reports more than 1000 idle mining men, most of them unskilled laborers. With development of modern equipment the mines have a demand fro more and more skilled miners and other workmen and less and less employment for...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1929-05-13
    • State history. State of Washington Pioneers. S. 1932-07-21


    • Broken hip doesn't mean idle hands

    • 1932

    • Broken hip doesn't mean idle hands
      For nine years Mrs, Sarah Semple has not been able to walk because of a broken hip, but she keeps her hands busy. On nearly any summer day she may be found on the front porch of her home at W1509 Mission...
    • State history. State of Washington Pioneers. S. 1932-07-21
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Strikes and riots. 1918-01-04


    • Millmen strike, return, out again - employes of Beardmore Lumber company want 10 hours' pay for eight hours - Priest river plant idle - closes and there is no immediate prospect of resuming operations

    • 1918

    • Millmen strike, return, out again - employes of Beardmore Lumber company want 10 hours' pay for eight hours - Priest river plant idle - closes and there is no immediate prospect of resuming operations - The men at the Beardmore lumber mill here,...
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Strikes and riots. 1918-01-04
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Strikes and riots. 1935-05-21


    • Lumber strikes keep 40,000 idle - third week presents little change - 4-L in tangle

    • 1935

    • Lumber strikes keep 40,000 idle - third week presents little change - 4-L in tangle - Owners closed one mill, strikers closed another and a third reopened under police protection today in Oregon, as organized union labor marched into the third week...
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Strikes and riots. 1935-05-21
    • Northwest history. Mining. Assessments. 1928-06-04


    • Highland plans to resume work - assessment levied - idle since Belgium ceased to take zinc ore

    • 1928

    • Highland plans to resume work - assessment levied - idle since Belgium ceased to take zinc ore - Stockholders of the Highland-Surprise Consolidated Mining company have been apprised of a 10-mill assessment levy made by the board of directors on May...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Assessments. 1928-06-04
    • Northwest history. Mining. Associations. 1934-01-30


    • Operator raps securities act - will reduce U. S. from first place to low in world mining, says Graves - costs Idaho $5,000,000 - discovery of university body- leaving prospectors, miners and engineers idle

    • 1934

    • Operator raps securities act - will reduce U. S. from first place to low in world mining, says Graves - costs Idaho $5,000,000 - discovery of university body- leaving prospectors, miners and engineers idle - By its prohibitory effect, the...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Associations. 1934-01-30
    • Northwest history. Mining. Finances. 1920-03-20


    • Old alta mine will be worked.

    • 1920

    • Old alta mine will be worked. - Idle for a long time -- eastern men put up money for development. - After being idle for nearly a quarter of a century the old Alta mine at Wickes, Mont., is to be reopened, according to a report from Anaconda.
    • Northwest history. Mining. Finances. 1920-03-20
    • State history. Native Americans. Art, artists & crafts. 1931-08-06


    • Will teach all idle Indians to work at their ancient art

    • 1931

    • Will teach all idle Indians to work at their ancient art. - The revival of Indian arts will place the tribesmen on a self-supporting basis, said George LaVatta, a Shoshone Indian working as a labor director for the United States Indian service.
    • State history. Native Americans. Art, artists & crafts. 1931-08-06
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. General. 1935-09-27


    • Bonneville use urged in speech. - Manager of Chamber talks to radio audience.

    • 1935

    • Bonneville use urged in speech. - Manager of Chamber talks to radio audience. - "It is because business men of Portland realize we cannot let Bonneville be built and then remain idle," said Walter W. R. May, manager of the Portland Chamber of...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. General. 1935-09-27
    • State history. Grand Coulee Dam. Construction. Photographs. 1938-04-05


    • Gravel flows again from conveyor belt at Grand Coulee

    • 1938

    • Gravel flows again from conveyor belt at Grand Coulee. - The ring of gravel as it falls from the end of a conveyor belt to a storage pile at Grand Coulee dam site is music to the ears of hundreds of workmen, who have been idle several months...
    • State history. Grand Coulee Dam. Construction. Photographs. 1938-04-05

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