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| Title | WPA workers vote to strike inside Eagles Hall, Seattle, 1937 |
| Photographer | Staff Photographer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1937 |
| Caption | At the Eagles Hall on Union Street, 800 hands rose in unison as Works Progress Administration workers voted to continue their month-long strike. Supported by the Workers' Alliance of Washington, the strikers voted two days later to end the strike after receiving guarantees of a six-hour day, a five-day week, and union-level hourly pay rates.
The Fraternal Order of the Eagles Hall on Union Street is the home of ACT (A Contemporary Theater) in 2003. |
| Notes | Handwritten on sleeve: W.P.A., Seattle, Meeting.
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): February 23, 1937. |
| Subjects | Labor unions--Washington (State)--Seattle; Voting--Washington (State)--Seattle; Strikes--Washington (State)--Seattle; Depressions--Washington (State)--Seattle; United States. Works Progress Administration--Washington (State)--Seattle; Public service employment--Washington (State)--Seattle; Employees--Washington (State)--Seattle; Social & civic facilities--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1986.5.16694.1 |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions contact photos@mohai.org or phone us at 206-324-1126. Please refer to the Image Number and provide a brief description of the photograph. |
| Credit Line | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Repository Collection | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 acetate negative: b&w; 4 x 5 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original negative as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
