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Wallis and Marilyn Kimble Northwest History Database
  • Subject Keys: unions
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    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1937-02-19


    • Labor unions back Coulee high dam

    • 1937

    • Labor unions back Coulee high dam. - Labor unions are planning a campaign to boost the appropriation of money for the Coulee high dam. J. J. Baxter, secretary of the Cement and Mill Workers' union at Concrete, Wash., in a letter to the Spokane...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1937-02-19
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1937-06-15


    • Dam site unions score vice fight.

    • 1937

    • Dam site unions score vice fight. - Citizens who have filed formal protest with Governor Clarence D. Martin against alleged vice conditions here were "denounced " in a resolution approved by the central labor council last night. The council is...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1937-06-15
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1937-06-15


    • Dam site unions score vice fight.

    • 1937

    • Dam site unions score vice fight. - Citizens who have filed formal protests with Governor Clarence D. Martin against alleged vice conditions here were "denounced" in a resolution approved by the central labor council last night. The council is...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1937-06-15
    • Northwest history. Industrial Workers of the World. 1919-05-08


    • Scent I. W. W. trick to bust standing of trade unions

    • 1919

    • Scent I. W. W. trick to bust standing of trade unions. Is I. W. W. literature, attacking union labor, being printed in a union shop in Spokane, or are the wobblies trying to disrupt the unions by trickery?
    • Northwest history. Industrial Workers of the World. 1919-05-08
    • Northwest history. Industrial Workers of the World. 1920-03-23


    • I. W. W. verdict splits unions.

    • 1920

    • I. W. W. verdict splits unions. - Centralia labor unions are reported split over the action of the central labor council in endorsing the "not guilty" verdict returned by the so-called "labor jury" at the Montesano trial of I. W. W.
    • Northwest history. Industrial Workers of the World. 1920-03-23
    • 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
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1936-12-15


    • Unions condemn dam wage scale

    • 1936

    • Unions condemn dam wage scale. - A resolution condemning the wage scales for skilled labor on the Grand Coulee dam project was adopted here by the building trades department of the Washington State Federation of Labor at the close of a week-end...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1936-12-15
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1937-08-20


    • A. F. of L. Unions sign Coulee dam agreement

    • 1937

    • A. F. of L. Unions sign Coulee dam agreement. - Closed shop pact negotiated by the building and construction trades with contractor on big government power project in state of Washington establishes 40-hour week, protects wage scales, bans strikes...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1937-08-20
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1938-03-04


    • Coulee unions will fill jobs

    • 1938

    • Coulee unions will fill jobs. - "Absolutely no one should come to Grand Coulee seeking work on the project, and only such persons as are called through our employment office will be employed," Frank Johnson, in charge of the American Federation of...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1938-03-04
    • 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. 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. 1936-03-22. p. 2.


    • Union control looms for dam

    • 1936

    • Union control looms for dam. - Nonunion workers may be excluded from MWAK. - Sullivan talks. - Accuses federal officials turning over set-up to unions. - A plan to turn over control of the National Reemployment service in the state to the labor...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1936-03-22. p. 2.
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1936-03-31


    • Unions feared at Coulee dam

    • 1936

    • Unions feared at Coulee dam. - Commissioners of three counties confer on proposal to hire contact man. - Fearing that unionization of the entire Grand Coulee dam job might throw some of residents of Grant, Douglas and Okanogan counties out of work,...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1936-03-31
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1936-03-22. p. 1.


    • Union control looms for dam

    • 1936

    • Union control looms for dam. - Nonunion workers may be excluded from MWAK. - Sullivan talks. - Accuses federal officials of turning over set-up to unions. - A plan to turn over control of the National Reemployment service in the state to the labor...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1936-03-22. p. 1.
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1936-12-14


    • Dam pay scale brings threat

    • 1936

    • Dam pay scale brings threat. - Building trade unions say labor exploited, may oppose Coulee funds. - Passage of a resolution condemning the present wage scales for skilled labor at Grand Coulee dam featured the closing session of the building trade...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1936-12-14
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1936-10-28


    • Workmen agree to confer with Coulee company

    • 1936

    • Workmen agree to confer with Coulee company. - Union recognition and a raise in wages for oilers and firemen on the Grand Coulee dam project will be discussed at a meeting between officials of the MWAK company and operating engineers, it was...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Labor. 1936-10-28

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