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| Title | Co-Operative Food Products Association's appeal to "organized labor", 1919 |
| Author | Co-Operative Food Products Association (Seattle, Wash.) |
| Publisher | Co-Operative Food Products Association (Seattle, Wash.) |
| Date of Publication | 1919 |
| Notes | This broadside from the Co-Operative Food Products Association in October 1919 informs members of organized labor that they have a "great opportunity". The reader is informed of the accomplishments of the Association, and the principles it has operated by. The Association is proud of its success in selling meat, and insists that it could sell groceries, fish, fruits, produce, and more -- even operate a department store -- if "a large number of Labor Unionists who do not now understand the co-operative movement" become members. The letter closes with an appeal for the purchase of stock in the Association, and is signed by the "Organization Committee" of Fred Nelson, O. P. Callahan, and C. E. Stead. |
| 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) | Broadsides |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Food cooperatives--Washington (State)--Seattle; Cooperative societies--Washington (State)--Seattle; Labor movement--Washington (State)--Seattle; Nelson, Fred; Callahan, O. P.; Stead, C. E. |
| Geographic Coverage | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Digital ID Number | PNW00973 |
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| Digital Collection | Pacific Northwest Historical Documents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 2/16 |
| Object Type | Broadside
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| Physical Description | 1 leaf; 32 x 23 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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