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| Title | Notice identifying the Bon Marche as "unfair to organized labor" |
| Author | Unknown |
| Date of Publication | 1920 |
| Notes | This card advertises the designation of the Bon Marche's building at Fourth Avenue and Pine Street as "UNFAIR", and notes that warning has been given to all tenants moving into this location. The card notifies all workers that organized labor is not to patronize the Bon Marche, or any stores located on the northwest corner of Fourth and Pine. The card was found attached to a daily report on organized labor which was given to the manager of the Bon Marche, Broussais C. Beck, by "Agent #106" on April 11, 1920. |
| Contextual Notes | Broussais Coman Beck (1886-1936) was a prominent Seattle businessman and rowing enthusiast. He was educated at the University of Washington and at Yale, graduating from the latter university in 1911. He returned to Seattle later in the 1910s to work as the store manager for the Bon Marche. In the wake of the Seattle general strike of 1919, Beck paid spies to infiltrate the labor movement in Seattle, and received frequent reports from his agents (often accompanied by clippings or ephemera relating to labor organizations) in 1919 and 1920. Due to the information acquired through these reports, the Bon Marche was centrally important to the alliance of Seattle employers who organized against labor, a group called the Associated Industries of Seattle -- and, consequently, the Bon Marche became the target of increased pressure and boycotts by organized labor in this time period. |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Fliers (Printed matter) |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Bon Marché (Department store); Department stores--Washington (State)--Seattle; Boycotts--Washington (State)--Seattle; Unfair labor practices--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Geographic Coverage | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Digital ID Number | PNW00901 |
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| Digital Collection | Pacific Northwest Historical Documents
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| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division. |
| Repository Collection | Broussais C. Beck papers. Accession No. 0155-001. Box 1/23 |
| Object Type | Ephemera
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| Physical Description | 1 leaf; 12 x 9.5 cm. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original text or image at 150 dpi saved in TIFF format, resized and enhanced using Adobe Photoshop, and imported as JPEG2000 using Contentdm software's JPEG2000 Extension. 2011. |
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