The 1935 Pacific Northwest lumber strike was an industry-wide labor strike organized by the Northwest Council of Sawmill and Timber Workers Union (STWU)...
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The 1916–1917 northern Minnesota lumber strike was a labor strike involving several thousand sawmill workers and lumberjacks in the northern part of the...
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for future labor struggles. Kohler was a local strike against a local company. The Flint strike of 1935-36 started as a small operation against the nation's...
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Cite journal requires |journal= (help) "494 PLANTS CLOSED BY LUMBER STRIKE; 85% of Northwest's Industry Is Paralyzed as 60,000 Quit Logging Camps and Mills"...
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The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace...
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History of Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh longshoremen, 1863–1963 (section The beginnings of Aboriginal lumber longshoring in Vancouver)
five can be identified as Aboriginal.": 94–95 During the six-month strike of 1935,: 155 a 900-man walkout that saw the violent Battle of Ballantyne Pier...
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lucrative lumber business. He served with the Canadian Pacific Railway as a superintendent and police magistrate in Revelstoke, manager for the Globe Lumber Company...
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Pacific Northwest Quarterly. 80 (3): 101–111. JSTOR 40491056. Charles Emmerson, The Future History of the Arctic (2010) p 74 Trotter, Reginald (1935)...
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explanation needed] In 1935, Tacoma received national attention when George Weyerhaeuser, the nine-year-old son of prominent lumber industry executive J...
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further west to the Pacific Northwest. The shift west was sudden and precipitous: in 1899, Idaho produced 65 million board feet of lumber; in 1910, it produced...
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dying after police battle in lumber town". Stockton Independent. June 22, 1935. p. 1. Beda, Steven. "Timber Strike of 1935". "Two killed in Minneapolis...
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became the lead negotiator for industry in the Pacific Northwest, settling with the Sawmill and Lumber Workers of the American Federation of Labor. Rotting...
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David. Lumber Kings and Shantymen. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: 2006. Lemonds, James. Deadfall: Generations of Logging in the Pacific Northwest. Missoula:...
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Scare in 1935. The general strike never happened in 1935, and striking relief camp workers left the city shortly after the waterfront strike finally was...
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British Columbia (redirect from Pacific Canada)
is the westernmost province of Canada. Situated in the Pacific Northwest between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains, the province has a diverse...
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Timeline of labour issues and events (redirect from 1910 Garment Workers' Strike)
Kansas, and Missouri Metal Workers' Strike occurred. 1935 (United States) Pacific Northwest Lumber Strike occurred. 1935 (United States) Southern Sharecroppers'...
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List of striking United States workers by year (category Strikes in the United States)
Throughout the history of labor in the United States, many workers have gone on strike. The Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the predecessor organizations it cites...
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she sailed from the Pacific Northwest ports to Liverpool in November 1937 carrying 8,024 tons of cargo consisting of wheat, lumber and fish. With the United...
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the Pacific Northwest and chose Everett for the site of his major lumber mill, which opened in 1902. By the end of the decade, Everett had 11 lumber mills...
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and many other parts of the world. The Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast are the original inhabitants of what is now known as Vancouver...
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Savona, British Columbia (category Canadian Pacific Railway stations in British Columbia)
000 ft) of finished lumber in the yard. In spring 1912, the Canada United Lumber Co was incorporated to take over various lumber interests, including...
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is the most populous city in both the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest region of North America, and the 18th-most populous city in the United...
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Guy Anderson (category Pacific Northwest artists)
members of Seattle's vibrant Asian arts community. In the Northwest Annual Exhibition of 1935 he won the Katherine Baker Purchase Award, and the museum...
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Vancouver. It was the largest port in Canada, the largest in the Pacific Northwest, and the largest port on the West Coast of North America by metric...
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Columbia, [1997] 3 SCR 1010. "Creation of a New Northwest Territories". Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories. 6 November 2012. Archived from...
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Montana (section Pacific Ocean drainage basin)
Other significant economic resources include oil, gas, coal, mining, and lumber. The health care, service, defense, and government sectors are also significant...
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begins. Portland Mill Strike of 1907 begins in March by lumber mill workers organized by the Industrial Workers of the World. The strike inspired unionization...
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the Washington Commonwealth Federation, from Strikes! Labor History Encyclopedia for the Pacific Northwest "Guide to the Howard Costigan Papers, 1933-1989...
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Oregon Trail (section Pacific Fur Company)
subsidiary of his American Fur Company (AFC), the Pacific Fur Company (PFC) operated in the Pacific Northwest in the North American fur trade. Two movements...
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founded as a village by fur trader Jacob Smith in 1819 and became a major lumbering area on the historic Saginaw Trail during the 19th century. From the late...
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