During December 1915, 500 Seattle boilermakers, shipbuilders, and laborers strike Seattle Construction and Dry Dock Company for an eight-hour day.
The unions received an increase in wages and uniform wage scale but did not get reduced hours.
Shipworkers strike Seattle Construction and Dry Dock Company during December 1915.
- By Greg Lange
- Posted 5/09/1999
- HistoryLink.org Essay 1105
Sources:
[Washington State] Bureau of Labor, Tenth Biennial Report of the Bureau of Labor Statistics and Factory Inspection 1915-1916 (Olympia: Frank M. Lamborn, Public Printer, 1916), 235.
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