100 years ago in Spokane: Construction workers strike after wage demands denied

About 1,500 construction workers went on strike in Spokane after the master builders of the city refused to grant their wage demands.

Most new construction ground to a halt. “Not a man was working today” on the new Deaconess Hospital, the Burgan’s building or any of the large structures in the city, the Spokane Daily Chronicle reported.

The strikers included carpenters, laborers, plasterers, hod carriers, iron workers, cement finishers, steel engineers and bricklayers – in other words, almost everyone involved in the building trades.

The carpenters had been asking for a wage of $8 per day and the laborers $6 per day. The other tradespeople walked off in sympathy after those wage demands were denied.

From the Easter candy beat: The Davenport Delicacy Shop ran an ad suggesting “a dainty package of the Davenport Spokane Confections” would be the perfect way to express “kindly feelings for your dearest friends” at Easter.

The shop was selling a wide range of sweets, including Little Spokane Fruits and Nuts, Tillicum and Tum Tum Chocolates, and Satin-Finished Hard Caramels.

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