The Oregon Encyclopedia

McClellan Committee

McClellan Committee

Portland's notorious history of racketeering played a role in the creation of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field, commonly called "The McClellan ...

Bracero Program

Bracero Program

The Mexican Farm Labor Program, also known as the Bracero Program, was the result of a series of agreements between Mexico and the United States in response to the demand for agricultural ...

Kaiser Shipyards

Kaiser Shipyards

During World War II, industrialist Henry J. Kaiser established three shipyards in the Pacific Northwest, two in Portland and one in Vancouver, Washington. Kaiser’s Northwest shipyards produced 752 ships during the war years.

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Labor

Shinzaburo Ban (1854-1926)

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

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

Valley Migrant League

Women's Land Army