The Oregon Encyclopedia

Gyppo Logging in Oregon

Gyppo Logging in Oregon

The term “gyppo logging” refers to timber harvesting conducted by small, mobile, independently owned companies that rely on contracts with larger logging firms, sawmills, or timber owners. The origin of “gyppo” remains ...

Irvin Henry Fletcher (1932-)

Irvin Henry Fletcher (1932-)

Irvin “Irv” Henry Fletcher was president of the Oregon AFL-CIO during the 1980s and 1990s, a period of significant change in the state’s economy. During his tenure, the state’s labor movement morphed from one dominated ...

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

Eleanor Baldwin (1854-1928)

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

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

Valley Migrant League

Women's Land Army