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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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