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D15813-3
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- 1943 (Creation)
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ca. 1943. In August of 1943, after ten months of toting a strike banner at Tacoma's Montgomery Ward store for the Retail Clerks Union, five young women known only as "Dusty, Sadie and the Dorothys," won recognition for the union. Through rain, cold and heat, the women maintained a picket line in front of the Montgomery Ward store downtown at 1117-29 Broadway. Wards was the only major Tacoma department store that was non-union at the time. Clerks at Wards were paid $15 a week, several dollars less that their Union counterpoints. The five women were photographed outside the new Labor Temple at 1355 Market St. holding a sign saying, "Strike on Montgomery Ward & Co. Unfair to Organized Labor A.F. of L." TPL-3654 (Tacoma Labor Advocate 8/13/1943, pg. 1)
Pickets--Tacoma--1940-1950; Strikes--Tacoma--1940-1950; Women--Tacoma--1940-1950;