SOUTH PARK (8) ~ SEAtTLE LABOR LANDMARKS A partial history of the Labor Movement in We,re a Union Town! Seattle 1882-194 5 and local works of labor art compiled by Lonnie Nelson for the PUGET SO UND CHAPTER of the COALITION OF LABOR UNION WOMEN with assistance from: M arc Auerbach, production Paul Dorpat, historian, Seattle Times newspaper Earl George, 1919 General Strike participant Oscar Hearde, Shipscalers Local 541 retiree and Rosie the Riveter, lAM 751 Hall Past President IG"Now Seattle's largest union local, DISTRICT Chuck V. Hord, Seattle Labor Temple Assn. Connie Kelliher, Editor, 751 Aero Mechanic 751, INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF Photo: Seattle-Post lntelligencer Collection, Museum of History and Industry Patra Learning, SEIU, A. Lord materials, typing Telephone Workers on Strike, 1917 MACHINISTS AND AEROSPACE WORKERS, Ronald E. Magden, historian was organized with thirty-five members on Carolyn). Marr, Librarian, Museum of History and Industry, DOWNTOWN (1) September 23, 1935. Outside the lAM Hall stands Seattle ~Th e first union organized in Seattle was ROSIE THE RIVETER, a welded statue of two Sue Moyer & RonMcGaha, lAM Dist. 751 TYPOGRAPHERS Local 202 on October 11 , 1882. Vi Russell, WFSE 1488 retiree riveters made in 1990 by artist KEN LONN, ~The first LABOR TEMPLE in the United States DISTRICT 751-F member. Mary Ann Schroeder, driver and photographer was built in Seattle in 1902. And financial contributions from: ~The first Labor Daily Newspaper in the United International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 9 States, the SEATTLE DAILY UNION RECORD, International Longshore and Warehouse Union. Local 52 started April 24, 1918. International Longshore and Warehouse Union Pensioners nrThe first Seattle local organized by women was Margaret Levi, WAITRESSES Local240 on March 23, 1900. One Director, University of Washington Center for Labor Studies founder, ALICE M. LORD, worked for years for Puget Sound Council of Senior Citizens the eight-hour day and the minimum wage. Another Local240 founder, HETTIE LESTER, was the first woman elected a vice president ofthe State Federation ofLabor in 1903. Bibliography Available: Lord and the Labor Movement gained the passage Puget Sound CLUW of a state law for the eight-hour day in 1911. Sister 6910 California Ave. S.W., #13 Lord introduced a resolution passed by the Seattle, WA 98136 Washington State Federation ofL abor in 1911 calling ~ for a minimum wage for women and helped win this law in 1913. nrThe Seattle Federation of Union Women and 1st Printing 1997 Auxiliaries was organized in October 1916. They Trade Printery proposed labor advance the four-hour day, devise ~· ways to organize unorganized women, and increase Seattle's oldest Union printshop. membership of all trade union organizations. SEATTLE'S WATERFRONT (2) PIONEER SQUARE AREA (4) ~Gi'"The first strike in Seattle was on October 22, OLAF HELLAND, SAILORS UNION member, ~Gi'" During the early 1900's at FREE SPEECH 1884 by waterfront workers demanding a 20¢ raise was mortally injured on the picket line on July 19, CORNER, Occidental and Washington Streets, from 30¢ an hour for unloading coal. The strike 1934 when struck in the head by an unexploded gas many men and women were arrested for speaking was lost when police ordered the fifteen men off grenade in the BATTLE OF SMITH COVE. to unemployed workers about their rights. the dock, at the foot ofPike Street. INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT (5) ~ Engineers of the "Mosquito Fleet" boats, VIRGIL D UYUGAN and AURELIO SIMON, forerunners of today's Was hington State Ferry President and Secretary of the CANNERY System, organized into the MARINE ENGINEERS WORKERS AND FARM LABORERS UNION, BENEFICIAL ASSOCIATION in 1883. were gunned down in 1936 while eating in a ~One hundred and ninety-six Chinese workers restaurant. were deported on the ship QUEEN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON (6) PACIFIC on February 7, 1886, during the depression of 1886. ~Gi'" ST R UGG LE AGAINST RACIAL DISCRIMINATION AND FOR UNITY OF ~The QUEEN OF THE PACIFIC was struck in INTERNATIONAL LABOR, a 60 foot by 7 foot June 1886 by the just organized STEVEDORES, fresco on concrete by Mexican muralist PABLO LONGSHOREMEN and RIGGERS UNION, who 0' H IGGI N S, h angs in Kane Hall on the won job dispatch control for a sh ort time. Photo: Seattle-Post lntelligencer Collection, Museum of History and Industry Battle of Smith Cove, 1934 (Pier 90-91) ~Tw o strikers, JOE GOLDSBY and HARRY RAGAN, murdered by strikebreakers in a 191 6 SHELVY DAFFRON, 1934 Longs hore Strike waterfront strike, are buried in the Committee member, was shot in the back and killed INTERNATIONAL LONGSHORE by a gunman who was later bailed out by Standard ASSOCIATION section at the Washelli Cemetery. Oil lawyers. The shooting was at the oil dock at Point Wells. Daffron is buried at Lakeview Cemetery. ~Seattle's GENERAL STRIKE occurred Feb. 6- 11 , 1919 and was initiated in solidarity with 40,000 Each July 5, all longshore work on the West Coast shipyard workers. Led by a General Strike stops from Vancouver, Canada to the Mexican border Committee, "Nothing moved but the tides" while to honor the six killed in the 1934 Longshore Strike. union patrols looked after security. When the workers BLOODY THURSDAY, a plaque by RONALD GUSTIN, was installed at the INTERNATIONAL ran the city, Seattle's crime rate was the lowest in Local 541 Shipscaler's Fresco, 1945 modem history. There were 16 soup kitchens in the LONGSHORE AND WAREHOUSE UNION hiring University campus. This work was commissioned city. hall in 1990 to commemorate those who were killed. by the SHIPSCALERS, DRYDOCK & BOAT QUEEN ANNE HILL (3) The JAPANESE LABOR ASSOCIATION in WORKERS UNION, Local541. Seattle, among many others, sent a letter of support ~On May 1, 1917, a May Day parade fifteen blocks Local 541 in 1945 elected the first African­ and fifty dollars to the Central Labor Council, long marched up Second Avenue to Mt. Pleasant American union local President in Seattle, CARL pledging to join the General Strike. Cemetery at the top of this hill. There, some ofJOE BROOKS. HILL's ashes were scattered and a memorial was ~In the 1934 Longshore Strike, INTERNATIONAL ARBORETUM (7) LONGSHORE ASSOCIATION picketers, dedicated for three members of the INDUSTRIAL supported by the UNEMPLOYED COUNCIL, WORKERS OF THE WORLD who were murdered ~This beautiful park was built by unemployed attempted to prevent scabs moving hot cargo by in the EVERETT MASSACRE on November 11, 1916: workers in 1936 as part of the public works jobs sitting down on railroad tracks, against mounted JOHN LOONEY, FELIX BARAN and HUGO program sponsored by the federal Works Progress police, tear gas, and deputies, with machine guns GERLOT. Administration (WPA). placed above pickets on the Garfield Street Bridge ~Gi'"Two picketers murdered in a TEAMSTERS strike (Pier 90-9 1). in 1915 are buried at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery. .