Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition

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Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition 1909Everett
Massacre/Unions -1916
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Question to Consider

• What exhibits would have interested your
  character at AYP?

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Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition 1909

• Washington's first World's Fair opened on June 1,
  1909, and closed on October 16, 1909.
• More than three million people visited the fair,
  which took place in Seattle on the University of
  Washington campus.

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Court of Honor and Arctic Circle
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Government Building

• Wax mannequins in surgery demonstration exhibit

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Forestry Building
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Agriculture Building
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Hawaii Building
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California Building

• Elephant constructed of walnuts

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Alaska Building

• Gold!

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Electric Lights
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Geysers Used Hydraulics
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Filipino Native Display
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Eskimo Exhibit
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Upside Down House
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Vaudeville Acts on the Pay Streak
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Esplanade at the Foot of the Pay Streak Midway
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Fairy Gorge Tickler, a gravity-powered ride
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Question to Consider

• What exhibits would have interested your
  character?
• Take a few moments to jot down a few of the
  exhibits.

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Possible Scrapbook Entry

• Write a postcard home to a friend describing your
  visit.
• Include how you got to the fair, who went with
  you, what exhibits you saw (at least three), and
  what the fair might mean to Washington.
• For the postcard face, draw one of your own or
  print one from the site.

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Everett Massacre/Unions - 1916

• Washingtons Workers
• By 1900, most of the Northwests workers were
  young single males.
• Workers went from job to job.
• They earned wages in mines, logging camps, lumber
  mills, and farm fields and orchards.

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Everett Massacre/Unions - 1916

• Capitalists were business owners who made money
  by hiring workers, usually at very low wages.
• It was workers against owners, poor against
• the rich.
• The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or
  Wobblies) wanted to overthrow capitalism.
• The IWW championed the concept of One Big
• Union and the overthrow of capitalism.

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Everett Massacre/Unions - 1916

• Unlike other unions, the IWW welcomed
• women and African Americans.
• The union also gave dignity to unskilled workers
  who were barred from other unions.
• The Wobblies agreed to strike if necessary.
• Workers fought for the right to speak freely to
  bosses and government leaders to get safer
  working conditions and higher wages.

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Everett Massacre/Unions - 1916

• Wobblies spoke on street corners and in public
  parks.
• Their free speech fights created much
• sympathy for their cause.
• In 1916 in Everett, a mill town north of Seattle,
  Wobblies were giving speeches criticizing World
  War I and capitalism.

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Everett Massacre/Unions - 1916

• Many were arrested, then repeatedly
• beaten by police and vigilantes (men who take it
• upon themselves to punish criminals.)
• To give support, a boatload of nearly 300 more
  Wobblies landed at Everett.
• As they sang union songs and tried to get off
• the ship, they were met with gunfire.
• Five workers and two vigilantes were killed.

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Everett Massacre/Unions - 1916

• Seventy-four Wobblies were charged with murder.
• After a trial, the defense showed that no one
  could tell who fired the first shot, and no guns
  were found on the ship.
• The Wobblies were freed.

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Questions to Consider

• Where does your character live?
• What industry does he/she work in?
• Is it the kind that would unionize?
• What would be the benefits and disadvantages?

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Possible Scrapbook Entries

• Write a letter to the editor showing your opinion
  of the event. Include your opinion of the rights
  of the demonstrators and the actions of the
  officials.
• OR
• Create a political cartoon that includes the
  protesters and the officials and shows your
  opinion of the event.