The Oregon Encyclopedia

Oregon Industrial Welfare Commission

Oregon Industrial Welfare Commission

In the spring of 1913, the Oregon legislature created the first compulsory minimum wage law in the nation and its governing agency, the Industrial Welfare Commission. The law legitimized government’s right to ...

Toledo Incident of 1925

Toledo Incident of 1925

In 1925, a mob forced a Japanese labor crew to leave Toledo, a community of about 2,500 people on the central Oregon coast. The incident led to a wrongful act lawsuit ...

Columbia River Fisherman's Protective Union

Columbia River Fisherman's Protective Union

The Columbia River Fishermen's Beneficial Aid Society was organized on August 16, 1875; it was incorporated on March 3, 1876. The Society’s main purposes were to establish rules regarding the drifting ...

Labor

Eleanor Baldwin (1854-1928)

Shinzaburo Ban (1854-1926)

Thomas Joseph Burns (1876-1957)

Will Daly (1869-1924)

Marie Equi (1872-1952)

Irvin Henry Fletcher (1932-)

Caroline Gleason (1886-1962)

Edith Starrett Green (1910-1987)

Andrew B. Hammond (1848-1934)

William McClendon (1915-1996)

George Putnam (1872-1961)

Julia Ruuttila (1907-1991)

Millie R. Trumbull (1866-1940)

Oswald D. West (1873-1960)

Expulsion of Chinese from Oregon City, 1886

McCarthy Era (late 1940s-late 1950s)

McClellan Committee

Muller v. Oregon (1908)

Toledo Incident of 1925

Associated Oregon Industries

Coin Machine Men

Gyppo Logging in Oregon

Latinos in Oregon

Native American Agricultural Labor

Oregon Commonwealth Federation

Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste (PCUN)

Populism in Oregon

Bracero Program

Centro Cultural de Washington County

Columbia River Fisherman's Protective Union

Cranberry Industry

Flax and Linen Industry of Oregon

Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

Kaiser Shipyards

Oregon Industrial Welfare Commission

The Portland Reporter

Seufert Brothers Cannery

Socialist Party of Oregon

Thomas Kay Woolen Mill

Valley Migrant League

Women's Land Army