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    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1934-07-20


    • Strike at dam ties up work on road grade.

    • 1934

    • Strike at dam ties up work on road grade. - Union men on the highway grading job at Coulee dam went out on strike this morning and the contractors, Max J. Kuney and James Crick of Spokane, took steps immediately to start replacing them
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1934-07-20
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1936-01-31


    • Try to organize Coulee workers.

    • 1936

    • Try to organize Coulee workers. - State labor leaders and representatives from 15 international unions will meet in Spokane, Saturday to formulate plans for organizing workers at Grand Coulee dam.
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1936-01-31
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1935-10-15


    • Back stage.

    • 1935

    • Back stage / by Mel Voorhees, Jr.
      Sooner or later labor troubles are liable to develop within the Mason-Walsh-Atkinson-Kerr organization at Coulee Dam, over the MWAK policy of operating its own community.
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1935-10-15
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1936-02-02


    • Organized labor demands removal of U. S. engineer at Coulee dam.

    • 1936

    • Organized labor demands removal of U. S. engineer at Coulee dam. - In their first act toward organizing labor on the federal Grand Coulee dam project, Washington State Federation of Labor representatives demanded tonight the removal of Frank A....
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1936-02-02
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1934-07-19


    • Open shop plan for Coulee dam labor is hinted.

    • 1934

    • Open shop plan for Coulee dam labor is hinted. - The Silas Mason interest are decidedly in favor of "open shop" for labor on the $29,000,000 Coulee dam job, it was learned today from a reliable source.
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1934-07-19
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1936-02-20


    • Union issue involved in dispute over labor employment at Grand Coulee.

    • 1936

    • Union issue involved in dispute over labor employment at Grand Coulee. - Capt. C. C. Beery, NRS head here, center of a state-wide dispute over whether or not H. D. Huxley, NRS representative from Washington, D. C. had a right to "fire" him from his...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1936-02-20
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1936-02-26


    • Waterville goes to bat for Beery in labor squabble.

    • 1936

    • Waterville goes to bat for Beery in labor squabble. - Protesting any change in the employment service at Grand Coulee dam, the Douglas county commissioners, Waterville chamber of commerce and Pomona Grange today sent a telegram to Governor Clarence...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1936-02-26
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1936-02-02


    • Heads of labor hit Coulee pay.

    • 1936

    • Heads of labor hit Coulee pay. - Meeting of leaders demands work be unionized and chiefs ousted. - A resolution condemning alleged employment practices at the Coulee dam and assailing officers of the national reemployment service was passed by...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1936-02-02
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1934-03-18


    • Denies jobless unit quit.

    • 1934

    • Denies jobless unit quit. - Dam site league secretary writes "Unfriendly interests killed it." - Philip Olsen, secretary of the Unemployed Workers' league at the Grand Coulee dam site, has written The Spokesman-Review that a dam site dispatch,...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1934-03-18
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1934-07-17


    • U. S. agents hit bosses at dam.

    • 1934

    • U. S. agents hit bosses at dam. - Secret agents want Ryan to have no more work - Aver NRA violated. - Work over 40 hours. - Accused blames trouble to labor unions. - Rail building held up.- It was learned yesterday that the department of justice...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1934-07-17
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1936-02-13


    • Officials silent on union plans.

    • 1936

    • Officials silent on union plans. - Neither the bureau of reclamation nor MWAK officials would comment yesterday on action taken by labor union officials in Spokane last week relative to unionizing the dam. No alarm if felt over the situation.
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1936-02-13
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1934-03-22


    • Unrest at dam to be probed.

    • 1934

    • Unrest at dam to be probed. - General contractor to visit project today. - Promises written statement. - David H. Ryan, general contractor at Grand Coulee dam site, will visit the dam site today to get information about reports of labor unrest. He...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1934-03-22
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1936-02-04


    • Union leaders continue study of Coulee dam.

    • 1936

    • Union leaders continue study of Coulee dam. - Fifteen international union representatives of crafts, employed at the Coulee dam continued their plans for organizing the men employed there at a committee meeting yesterday morning in Carpenters'...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1936-02-04
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1936-02-05


    • No comments on labor row.

    • 1936

    • No comments on labor row. - Neither bureau or MWAK officers make statement. - Wages here rate favorably. - Neither officials of the U. S. bureau of reclamation nor of the Mason-Walsh-Atkinson-Kier company cared to make comments yesterday on the...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1936-02-05
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1936-02-04


    • Plans to organize Coulee dam labor.

    • 1936

    • Plans to organize Coulee dam labor. - Washington State Federation, aided by national representative, will undertake the task. - Avowed intentions of "organizing" workmen at the Grand Coulee dam project will lead representatives of 17 international...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1936-02-04
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1936-10-26


    • No change in strike status

    • 1936

    • No change in strike status. - Head of engineers' union out of town for week-end. - The situation surrounding the possibility of a strike of operating engineers--the key-men of the MWAK construction force--which, if started, would probably result in...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1936-10-26
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1936-06-09


    • Unions favored in dam labor

    • 1936

    • Unions favored in dam labor. - Grant, Douglas, Okanogan claim their folk are shut out--Spokane favored. - While Grant, Douglas and Okanogan county officials insist that hundreds of their residents, entitled to preference on jobs at Grand Coulee,...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1936-06-09

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