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Confidential report to the members of the Retail Trade Bureau regarding organizations and periodicals approved for advertising and fund-raising, December 1, 1920
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| Title | Confidential report to the members of the Retail Trade Bureau regarding organizations and periodicals approved for advertising and fund-raising, December 1, 1920 |
| Author | Seattle Retail Trade Bureau |
| Date of Publication | 1920 |
| Notes | This confidential report, dated December 1, 1920, was issued by the Investigations Committee of the Retail Trade Bureau to the bureau's members. It lists the periodicals and organizations that have been approved to solicit funds, merchandise, and advertising from the bureau's membership. Also included are a list of organizations and periodicals whose requests were not approved by the committee. |
| Contextual Notes | E. B. "Harry" Ault (1883-1961) was a journalist and a prominent member of the socialist and labor movements in Washington state. In 1898, when Ault was in his teens, his family relocated from Kentucky to Washington state, where they joined the Equality Colony, a socialist commune located near Edison in Skagit County. Ault became editor of the colony's newspaper, "Industrial Freedom", later that year. Ault lived at Equality Colony for two years, after which he left for Seattle in 1900 to found a newspaper called "The Young Socialist". Ault had become involved in Eugene Debs' Social Democratic Party, and would join the new Socialist Party in 1901.
After a decade of prominent involvement in the Socialist Party, particularly working for the newspaper "The Socialist" and its publisher, Hermon Titus, Ault left the socialists for the more "mainstream" labor movement, working as the secretary of the Central Labor Council of Seattle from 1909 to 1913. In 1912, he took over the editorship of the council's newspaper, the Seattle Union Record, which he edited until the paper's termination in 1928. In connection with his work as editor, he collected and saved many documents relating to the growth and activism of the labor movement in the Pacific Northwest. He then worked as a commercial printer, until re-entering active involvement in politics in 1936, when he ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination for Congress from the 1st Congressional District -- a race he lost to Warren G. Magnuson. Ault was appointed a deputy U.S. Marshal for Tacoma, Washington in 1938, a position he held until his retirement 15 years later. |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Seattle Chamber of Commerce and Commercial Club. Retail Trade Bureau (Seattle, Wash.); Advertising, Newspaper--Washington (State)--Seattle; Business enterprises--Washington (State)--Seattle--Charitable contributions; Charities--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Geographic Coverage | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Digital ID Number | PNW00939 |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or inquire about permissions contact: photos@u.washington.edu. |
| Digital Collection | Pacific Northwest Historical Documents
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| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division. |
| Repository Collection | Harry E. B. Ault papers, Accession No. 0213-001, Box 5/20 |
| Object Type | Report
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| Physical Description | 1 leaf; 36 x 22 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. |
| Restrictions | For information on permissions for use and reproductions please visit UW Libraries Special Collections Reproduction & Use page: http://content.lib.washington.edu/sc-use.html |
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