33 results for: Labor and Labor Unions
Badge, United Mine Workers of America, 1911
The eighth annual convention of the United Mine Workers of America was held in Seattle on August 7, 1911. The union's primary goals were to improve mine safety, abolish the oppressive company store system, and secure collective bargaining power.
ID Number:1978.6640.6
Date:1911
Collection of four bullet shell casings from the Everett Massacre in 1916
Four bullet shell casings gathered by Arthur Riggs who was present during the 1916’s Everett Massacre, a confrontation between citizen and sheriff deputies and demonstrating members of the International Workers of the World union (IWW). About 300 IWW members met in Seattle, boarded the steamers Verona and Calista, and headed to Everett. The Verona arrived first to be met by…
ID Number:1980.6886.74
Date:1916
Badge, "Inspector, American Protective League, Auxiliary to U.S. Dept. of Justice, F 68," ca. 1917
The American Protective League was an organization of private citizens who spied on and reported the activities of suspected German sympathizers during WWI, as well as other “radicals” who were considered a threat to the war effort. The latter included left-wing labor and political organizations, anarchists, and anti-war activists. The APL was sponsored by the United States Department of Justice…
ID Number:1982.178.43
Date:Circa 1917
T-shirt from newspaper guild strike, 2000
On November 21, 2000, staff at both of Seattle's major newspapers, The Seattle Times and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (P-I), went on strike. Though the papers were owned separately, both striking groups were represented by the Communication Workers of Americas (CWA) Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild Local 37082. This shirt belonged to Sherry Grindeland, co-chair of the strike steering committee for the…
ID Number:2001.15.1
Date:2000
Burn barrel used during Teamster's Strike, ca. 2000
In November 2000, the members of the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild Local 82 went on strike against the Seattle Times and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer over issues concerning salaries and the use of a merit-based pay system. Other groups joined the strike including the Teamsters Local 174 and the members of Local 2001 SPEEA IFPTE (International Federation of Professional and Technical…
ID Number:2001.15.3
Date:2000
Picket sign for newspaper strike, 2000
In November 2000, the members of the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild Local 82 went on strike against the Seattle Times and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer over issues concerning salaries and the use of a merit-based pay system. Other groups joined the strike including the Teamsters Local 174 and the members of Local 2001 SPEEA IFPTE (Society of Professional Engineerig Employees in…
ID Number:2001.15.7
Date:2000
Picket sign for Seattle newspaper strike, 2000
In November 2000, the members of the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild Local 82 went on strike against the Seattle Times and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer over issues concerning salaries and the use of a merit-based pay system. Other groups joined the strike including the Teamsters Local 174 and the members of Local 2001 SPEEA IFPTE (International Federation of Professional and Technical…
ID Number:2001.15.10
Date:2000
Painting of three workmen in a huddle with one holding a shovel, by Carl Morris, 1920-1960
Carl Morris (1911-1993) was a painter born in California. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and several years in Paris and Vienna. Morris served as the director of the Spokane Art Center during the late 1930s. He worked with fellow Pacific Northwest artist Mark Toby, and was a figurative painter until the end of WWII, then painted abstractions.…
ID Number:2006.38.409
Date:1920-1960
Picket sign from Seattle newspaper strike, 2000
In November 2000, the members of the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild Local 82 went on strike against the Seattle Times and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer over issues concerning salaries and the use of a merit-based pay system. Other groups joined the strike including the Teamsters Local 174 and the members of Local 2001 SPEEA IFPTE (International Federation of Professional and Technical…
ID Number:2011.20.2
Date:2000
T-shirt from the Seattle newspaper strike, 2001
This t-shirt was donated by a 15+ year employee of the Seattle Times who participated in the 49-day newspaper strike from November 2000 to January 2001. The strike was voted on by Pacific Northwest Guild members. The Seattle Union Record, featured on the shirt, was originally a local labor newspaper that ran for thirty years from 1899 to 1928. It…
ID Number:2011.20.3
Date:2001