During 1899, horseshoers in Seattle organize a union.
In 1900, horseshoers earned $4.00 for nine hours work. In 1914, the union, headed by J.M. McMillan, had 45 members. By 1918, membership of the Horse Shoers Union Local No. 43 had fallen to 18 members, and two years later it had fallen to nine.
Sources:
[Washington State] Bureau of Labor, Ninth Biennial Report of the Bureau of Labor Statistics and Factory Inspection 1913-1914 (Olympia: Frank M. Lamborn, Public Printer, 1914), 103, 111; [Washington State] Bureau of Labor, Bureau of Labor Eleventh Biennial Report 1917-1918 (Olympia: Frank M. Lamborn, Public Printer, 1918), 86.
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