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- Dormitory house single girls at dam site
- 1935
- Dormitory house single girls at dam site. - It looks like a picture of college days, but it isn't; it is an array of Mason City's hard-working girls who posed for their picture before their new dormitory, devoted to single women employees. It seems...
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Pictoral history. Celebrations. 1935-03-03
- New union open on state basis.
- 1937
- New union open on state basis. - The "Federation of Construction Employees of Coulee Dam," a newly formed dam site union, at its first regular meeting Wednesday night branched out as a state-wide organization.
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1937-06-12
- Arbitration to settle dispute.
- 1937
- Arbitration to settle dispute. - Friendly arbitration rather than strikes will be used to settle labor disputes between members of the Federation of Construction Employees at Grand Coulee and dam and their employers, according to articles of...
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1937-06-12
- Grand Coulee group calls self beavers.
- 1937
- Grand Coulee group calls self beavers. - Emblematic of dam construction, the Federation of Construction Employees, recently organized at Grand Coulee, have styled themselves Beavers with the launching of an intensive membership campaign among the...
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1937-06-20
- Union opens drive at Coulee dam.
- 1937
- Union opens drive at Coulee dam. - Filing at Olympia of articles of incorporation for the Federation of Construction Employees of Coulee Dam was awaited today as the next move in an announced unionization drive among 6,000 workers on the Grand...
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1937-05-29
- Laborers to vote union fate at dam Thursday.
- 1937
- Laborers to vote union fate at dam Thursday. - A mass meeting of all laborers at Grand Coulee dam site for the purpose of learning whether or not common laborers and others of low paying classification wish to organize under the American Federation...
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1937-06-23
- C. I. O. threatens dam.
- 1937
- C. I. O. threatens dam. - 35 organizers are enroute, says Wheeler, president of new group. - That a number of C. I. O. organizers are at the dam site agitating a "sit-down strike" was the declaration contained in a statement issued today by M. L....
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1937-06-02
- Charge "power trusts" in plot to cripple coulee
- 1937
- Charge "power trusts" in plot to cripple Coulee. - Ask president to use his influence in halting threatened strike at dam. - Charging that "power trust funds are being used to finance Committee for Industrial Organization for a strike at Grand...
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1937-08-07
- Driller objects to being forced
- 1937
- Driller objects to being forced. - Compulsory membership in a labor union doesn't appeal to Daniel M. O'Reilly, a driller at the Grand Coulee dam project, where the MWAK company recently signed a "closed shop" agreement with the American Federation...
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1937-08-31
- Strike barrier at dam popular.
- 1937
- Strike barrier at dam popular. - 1000 workers signed as incorporation papers filed. - With more than 1000 members already signed up, the Federation of Construction Employees at Grand Coulee dam filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of...
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1937-06-12.
- Strikes and lockouts lack place in Coulee contract
- 1937
- Strikes and lockouts lack place in Coulee contract. - Here is the text of the "closed shop" agreement between the MWAK company, contractor at Coulee dam, and the American Federation of Labor: ""1. That the word day shall not exceed eight hours and...
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1937-07-30.
- Oldest employee in retirement
- 1931
- Oldest employee in retirement
  The oldest employee on the O.-W. R. & N. system in point of service, Louis W. Jones, engineer on the Dayton-Walla Walla run, Monday, August 31, concluded his activities as a railroader and retired. Employed by the...
- State history. State of Washington Pioneers. J. 1931-09-01
- Labor action before court.
- 1937
- Labor action before court. - Lumber company appeals desist order to second higest tribunal. - Constitutionality of the national labor act will be argued in a case to be heard today by the United States circuit court of appeals, holding its first...
- Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Legislation. 1937-09-15
- Lumber mills start humming.
- 1938
- Lumber mills start humming. - Seasonal jobs available to thousands as Inland Empire plants open. - Lumber mills throughout the Inland Empire are starting spring operations, making jobs for thousands of people of this district dependent upon the...
- Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Mills (Lumber). 1938-03-24
- Driller objects to being forced.
- 1937
- Driller objects to being forced. - Compulsory membership in a labor union doesn't appeal to Daniel M. O'Reilly, a driller at the Grand Coulee dam project, where the MWAK company recently signed a "closed shop" agreement with the American Federation...
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. General. 1937-08-31
- Coulee can care for ailing folks
- 1934
- Coulee can care for ailing folks. - Hospitalization facilities for the dam site have been doubled the last week with the arrival of Dr. Walter C. Reiner of Portland.
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Hospitals. 1934-07-04
- C. I. O. invites Coulee labor.
- 1937
- C. I. O. invites Coulee labor. - John L. Lewis' powerful C. I. O. has started organizing workmen on the Coulee Dam project, with a goal of 3000 by Saturday. So far about 1000 men have signed up, according to the 26 organizers who are working the...
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1937-06-24
- Strike barrier at dam popular.
- 1937
- Strike barrier at dam popular. - 1000 workers signed as incorporation papers filed. - With more than 1000 members already signed up, the Federation of Construction Employees at Grand Coulee dam filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of...
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1937-06-12. p. 1.
- Coulee workers form new union
- 1937
- Coulee workers form new union. - A union independent of the A. F. of L. and the C. I. O., designed to include all workers on the Grand Coulee dam project, is being formed this week by a group of workmen.
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1937-05-28
- Big craft union drive started.
- 1937
- Big craft union drive started. - Envoys of the American Federation of Labor launched a vigorous drive at a mass meeting Thursday night to organize Grand Coulee dam's army of 5000 common and sem-skilled laborers into one big craft union.
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1937-06-25