NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS |
August 21, 2020 | PAGE 21
We Honor All The Hard Working
Men and Women on Labor Day
A DREAM OF JOBS, AND FREEDOM The March on Washington For Jobs and
Freedom in August 1963 was the largest civil rights demonstration ever held.
Well over 200,000 people—tens of thousands of them union members—
gathered before the Lincoln Memorial to demand congressional enactment
of laws banning discrimination in jobs, public accommodations, and housing.
The following summer, Congress passed the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964.
financial support, orders halt to picketing and
declares open shop with the publications re-
maining on boycott list. Legislature passes
three-way workers’ compensation bill over la-
bor’s objections. Gov. Hatfield vetoes bill
which would have opened apprenticeship to
industrial programs, changed state appren-
ticeship council makeup and put program un-
der labor commissioner’s administration.
AFL-CIO President George Meany speaks at
American Legion convention in Portland.
Strikes at Portland Hilton, Nabisco, Swan Is-
land ship repair facility. AFL-CIO forms A.
Philip Randolph Institute. Cesar Chavez gar-
ners national attention for the plight of farm
workers by spearheading what becomes a
five-year California grape pickers strike; forms
AFL-CIO United Farm Workers Organizing
Committee. 1966: New $2.5 million Portland
Labor Center opens at SW First and Arthur.
Oregon AFL-CIO moves offices to Salem.
Oregon AFL-CIO reports 20,000 member-
ship gain. Merger of Multnomah, Clackamas
and Washington County Labor Councils pro-
posed. Union Labor Retirement Association
dedicates Westmoreland Union Manor. Ship
repair yard strike settled after eight months.
1967: Old Portland Labor Temple at SW
Fourth and Jefferson, built in early 1920s, de-
molished for construction of First Interstate
Bank. Linda Rae Grabler of Waitresses Local
305 first union member named Portland
Rose Festival princess. Port of Portland rec-
ognizes District Council of Trade Unions as
Iron Workers Local 14, Spokane
Iron Workers Local 29, Portland
Iron Workers Local 86, Seattle
Iron Workers Local 506, Seattle
Iron Workers Local 516, Portland
Iron Workers Local 751, Anchorage