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| Title | Labor spy report by Agent #17 to Broussais Beck, August 29, 1919 |
| Author | Unknown |
| Date of Publication | 1919 |
| Notes | In this report to Broussais Beck on August 29th, 1919, "Agent #17" describes the meeting of the "Boilermakers and Helpers, Local 104". A report is given on the conditions in which Hulet M. Wells is kept on McNeil Island. Some additional discussion of Wells's situation occurs, after which the meeting votes in favor of thanking Ole Hanson for resigning from the union, and delegates a committee to visit him and demand the return of his union card. Twenty-five delegates are selected for the Triple Alliance, which #17 reports is very popular in the local, and arrangements are made to hold a referendum on the new wage scale. |
| 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 (LCSH) | Beck, Broussais C., 1886-1936; Labor movement--Washington (State)--Seattle; Labor unions--Washington (State)--Seattle; Business intelligence--Washington (State)--Seattle; Union busting--Washington (State)--Seattle; Wells, Hulet M., 1878-1970. McNeil Island Penitentiary; Prisoners--Washington (State) |
| Geographic Coverage | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Digital ID Number | PNW00913 |
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| Digital Collection | Pacific Northwest Historical Documents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 1/27 |
| Object Type | Typescript
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| Physical Description | 1 leaf; 28 x 21.5 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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