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August 21, 2020 | PAGE 9
Labor Day Is Our Day!
Be Union! Be Proud!
From the Officers, Representatives, Office Staff and Members of
Machinists
District W24
• Lodge 63 in Gladstone • Lodge 1005 in Gladstone • Lodge 1432 in Gladstone
• W12 in Klamath Falls • W246 in Springfield • W261 in Central Point
W38 in Shelton, WA • W130 in Aberdeen, WA • W536 in Longview, WA
• W98 in Arcata, CA • W364 in Lewiston, ID • Local 88 in Butte, MT
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A plastering crew in 1912 breaks to pose for a photo in front of the Mult-
nomah Hotel. The hotel, now an Embassy Suites, is still at SW Third and Pine.
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Union is elected president of the Oregon
AFL. 1910: Astoria is home to Oregon’s
largest union, the Fishermen’s Union. Salem
Carpenters Local 1065 wins 8-hour day for
100 members. Medford forms Central Labor
Council with 300 members. Bartenders Local
425 signs 29 saloons in Vancouver, Wash.
1911: Triangle Fire, New York, more than 150
young women workers killed in fire of locked
garment factory. 1912: Bread and Roses
strike begun by immigrant women in
Lawrence, Mass., ends with 23,000 men,
women and children on strike. Bill creating
Department of Labor passes. 1913:
Woodrow Wilson elected president and ap-
points the first secretary of labor, William B.
Wilson of the Mine Workers. The Newlands
Act sets up a Board of Mediation and Concil-
iation to handle railroad disputes. Oregon cre-
ates the State Highway 1914: Ludlow Mas-
sacre of 13 women and children and seven
men in Colorado coal miners’ strike. Clayton
Act passed by Congress, amends Sherman
Act to declare that the labor of a human being
is not a “commodity,” thus not subject to Sher-
man Act. AFL membership reaches 2 million.
Ford Motor Co. increases worker pay from
$2.40 for a nine-hour day to $5 for an eight-
hour day. 1915: Seventeen cities in Oregon
have active unions. The first transcontinental
telephone call is made and first transatlantic
radio telephone call is completed. 1916:
Adamson Act passed by Congress provides
8-hour day for railroad workers. A federal
child labor law is enacted (but declared un-
constitutional two years later). 1917: Presi-
dent Woodrow Wilson becomes first chief ex-
ecutive to address a labor convention. U.S.