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About Northwest labor press. (Portland , Ore.) 1987-current | View Entire Issue (May 17, 2013)
Labor history project needs sponsors VANCOUVER — A labor history project at the Clark County Historical Museum is still looking for financial sponsorships from individual union members and union shops. The exhibit, “Tools of the Trade: A History of Labor in Southwest Wash- ington,” opens at the museum July 11 and will run for 18 months. The Washington State Labor Coun- cil will hold two receptions at the mu- seum during its statewide convention at the Vancouver Hilton & Convention Center July 25-27. The museum also is planning a se- ries of public education programs that will run during the exhibit. The mu- seum is working in partnership with Washington State University-Vancou- ver History Department, the NW Folk- life Center, and the Vancouver Com- munity Library to produce and host the labor-specific programs. The labor history program will showcase the significant role that work- ers and their unions played in building the community, and will include arti- facts, oral histories, and other materials related to the labor movement in Van- couver and Southwest Washington. Additional funds are needed now to complete the exhibit project. Union shops and community busi- nesses that donate $500 will be featured in the exhibit gallery on an interpretive panel highlighting the contribution. Companies donating at the $1,000 level will get the same, plus have their logo featured on an exhibit banner that will hang on the front of the museum build- ing. Businesses that contribute $2,000 will get those two items, plus have their logo featured on media advertising that the museum produces in conjunction with the exhibit. Individual union members who do- nate in whatever dollar amount they can afford ($20, $50, $75, $100 or more), will be acknowledged in a “Rolodex” that will be featured in the exhibit gallery. The “Rolodex” will list union members grouped by their dona- tion amount and by union affiliation. Deadline to participate is June 1. The Clark County Historical Soci- ety and Museum is a non-profit 501 (c) 3 organization. Donations can be made online at www.cchmuseum.org. Checks can be sent to: Clark County Historical Museum Labor Exhibit, Clark County Historical Museum, 1511 Main Street, Vancou- ver, Wash., 98660 For more information, call Susan Tissot, executive director of the Clark County Historical Museum, at 360- 993-5679, or email her at tissots@paci- fier.com. Bill Trites watches as his catch of the day is weighed. The 13-pound salmon proved to be a winner on a slow fishing day on the Willamette River. Guide Dogs the big winner at Machinists salmon derby Guide Dogs of America (GDA) was the big winner at the third annual Salmon Fishing Derby May 4 spon- sored by Machinists District W24. Un- seasonably warm weather scared away the fish, but not fishermen and women, who donated $10,000 to the cause. In three years the fishing derby has collected $34,000 for Guide Dogs. The International Association of Machinists founded GDA in 1948 in Sylmar, California, to train and provide guide dogs to the blind, free of charge. The organization receives no govern- ment funding. “We depend solely on fundraising events like this, voluntary donations and bequests,” said Guide Dogs director and derby participant MAY 17, 2013 NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS Guide Dogs in training — Tabor, the yellow lab on the left, and Welby, a black lab, were special guests at the Machinists District W24 salmon derby luncheon on May 4. Dale Hartford, noting that to breed, raise and train one guide dog costs $38,000. The fishing derby launched from the docks of RiverPlace Marina in downtown Portland at 5 a.m. For the next eight hours, 19 professional fish- ing guides steered four-person teams through the Willamette River in search of the big fish. The winning catch was a 13-pound salmon reeled in by Bill Trites. It was Trites’ first salmon catch ever. Winner of the sturgeon derby (for most total inches of sturgeon landed, catch and release) was Jon Holden, with 635 inches. Holden is a member of Machinists District Lodge 751 in Seattle. PAGE 7
