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PAGE 10 | August 7, 2015 | NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS Latest trade union spy novel published to acclaim Retired union attorney Susan Stoner reads from Dead Line, her fifth novel, at Powell's Books on Hawthorne. Local union attorney Susan Stoner has published the fifth in her series of closely-researched historical detective novels. The novels feature a fictional trade union spy, Sage Adair, but are based on real-life situations in the Portland, and Oregon, of the early 1900s. Dead Line, the lat- est installment, got a favorable review in the July 19 Sunday Oregonian. In it, Adair travels to Central Oregon to prevent a range war between cattle ranch- ers and sheep herders. Washington BCTC endorses Vancouver Energy Terminal VANCOUVER —The Wash- ington Building and Construc- tion Trades Council (WBCTC) has endorsed the proposed $210 million Vancouver Energy ter- minal at the Port of Vancouver, and is supporting efforts to seek timely regulatory approval so construction can begin. Vancouver Energy is “an op- portunity for the creation of good, family-wage jobs during both the initial construction and longer term maintenance and operations of the facility and structures,” said Lee Newgent, executive secretary of the WBCTC. A resolution passed at the Council’s annual convention noted that the current unem- ployment rate for Vancouver re- mains above 8 percent, while the project would generate more than 320 full-time jobs during construction and an estimated 176 on-site operations jobs. It will also generate $22 million in local tax revenues during con- struction and $7.6 million in an- nual tax revenues once the ter- minal is fully operational. Vancouver Energy, the Co- lumbia Pacific Building and Trades Council, the Interna- tional Union of Operating Engi- neers, and the Pacific Northwest Regional Council of Carpenters have all entered into a letter of understanding for a project labor agreement for the construction of the facility. The WBCTC has nine affili- ated local building trades coun- cils representing more than 70,000 members from 60 craft unions across the state. Prineville at the time was Central Oregon’s biggest eco- nomic powerhouse. The region was dotted with woolen mills, which were supplied by large herds of sheep that ended up devastating Eastern Oregon’s lush grasslands, producing to- day’s sagebrush prairie. Stoner says she chose the early 1900s for her series in part because it’s a period that paral- lels the present: It was a time of great consolidation of wealth into the hands of a few, but also a time that gave birth to move- ments to stop that. “I wanted to give people a connection to our past,” Stoner said at a July 23 reading at Pow- ell’s Books on Hawthorne. “There’s a lot to discourage us now, but 100 years ago, they were facing even bigger obsta- cles, and yet they rose up and created a middle class the likes of which the world had never seen before.” Stoner, a native Oregonian, retired in March after 24 years as staff attorney for Amalga- mated Transit Union Local 757. The series starts with Timber Beasts, set amid the savage ex- ploitation of loggers; followed by Land Sharks, which treats the subject of shanghaiing; Dry Rot, which details a true-to-life story of construction fraud that led to the collapse of a city bridge; and Black Drop, which explores white slavery and a fic- tional plot to assassinate Presi- dent Theodore Roosevelt. She’s in the early stages of work on a sixth novel, which will feature the struggles of women workers in Portland’s steam laundries. 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