Issaquah coal miners strike on October 24, 1903.

  • By Greg Lange
  • Posted 5/05/1999
  • HistoryLink.org Essay 1073
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On October 24, 1903, coal miners strike the Issaquah Coal Company for a wage increase from $2.50 to $3.00 per day.

The strike ended on November 16, 1903. The dispute went to arbitration and the miners got a raise to $2.85 per day and a promise to rehire all strikers. On November 28, 1903, the miners struck again because some miners who had gone on strike in October had not been rehired. That strike was settled on December 10, 1903, when the company agreed to hire them.


Sources:

[Washington] Bureau of Labor, Fourth Biennial Report of the Bureau of Labor of the State of Washington 1903-1904 (Olympia: Blankenship Satterlee Company, printer, 1904), 52, 97-98; "Report of the State Inspector of Coal Mines for the Years 1903-4," in [Washington] Bureau of Labor, Fourth Biennial Report of the Bureau of Labor of the State of Washington 1903-1904 (Olympia: Blankenship Satterlee Company, printer, 1904), 12.


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