Workers Can Win the War Says Seattle Leaders
A wartime appeal urges total home-front production with Seattle workers building ships uniforms welding weapons. It emphasizes loyalty patriotism and efficiency and lists prominent local figures and insurers linked to the cause encouraging skilled labor to support democracy and victory in Europe.
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Stand by Your Job to Win the War in Seattle’s Industry
A wide ledger of Seattle area firms across hotels, smelters, dairies, meatpacking, shipbuilding, construction, automotive, wholesale groceries, and coal shows the city’s home front industrial mobilization. Named companies include Great Western Smelting & Refining, Carnation Milk, Seattle Construction & Dry Dock, Puget Sound Navigation, Mitsui & Co, Nippon Yusen Kaisha, and many regional suppliers and manufacturers. The list highlights diverse sectors mobilizing for wartime production and logistics efforts.
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Henry Suzzallo
H. C. Henry
A. W. Leonard
C. J. Smith
F. K. Strove
M. F. Backus
E. C. Hughes
August Mehlhorn, Jr
T. S. Lippy
Elbridge
A. Stuart
J. D. Lowman
C. H. Cobb
Chas. A. Kinnear
Frank B. Cooper
Reginald Parsons
Robert P. Oldham
Frank Waterhouse
Ole Hanson
William Pigott Moritz Thomson
John Murphy
A. Keenandas
Q. Clemmer John T. Casey Lee H. Wakefield
Insurance Companies
Northern Life Insurance Co
Northwestern Mutual Fire Asse
Northwest Trust & Savings Bank
National Bank of Commerce
American Savings Bank and Trust Co
Yokohama Specie Bank
State Bank of Seattle
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National City Bank
Seattle National Bank
Union Savings & Trust Co
Scandinavian American Bank
Dexter Horton National Bank
Seaboard National Bank
First National Bank
Washington Hotel
Washington-Annex
Boldt’s Restaurant & Bakery Co
Dairy and Milk Products Companies
Carnation Milk Products Company
Pure Milk Dairy A. Kristoferson, Inc
Standard Furniture Co
the Rhodes Co
Frederick & Nelson
Bon Marche
Vraser-Paterson Co
M. A. Gottatein Co
MacDougall Southwick Co
the Grote Rankin Co
Nut House
Kilbourne-Clarke Co
Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co
Mack Manufacturing Co
Crescent Manufacturing Co
Long Manufacturing Co
Hendricks Manufacturing Co. C
Belknap Glass Co
Boeing Airplane Co
Centennial Mill Co
Emis Cros. Bag Co
Rothweiler & Co
Pacific Creosoting Co
Metropolitan Building Co
Lee H. Wakefield Co
Barton & Co
Kelley-Clarke Company
Columbia Salmon Co
Carlisle Packing Co
Lindenberger Packing Co
John Davia & Co
G. Kinnear Co
Portland Cement Association
Eldridge Buick Co
Overland Pacific, Inc
Frank Waterhouse & Co
Seattle Automobile Co
White Automobile Co
Pacific Motors, Inc
F. Dathie Company
Sloan Shipbuilders Corporation
Patterson-McDonald Shipbuilding Co
Amel Shipbuilding Co, Meacham & Babcock Shipbuilding Co
National Shipbuilding Co
Seattle Construction & Dry Dock Co
Puget Sound Bridge & Dredging Co
Rogers Brown Griffin & Co
Galbraith, Bacon & Co. Inc
Northwestern Fruit Exchange
the Bradner Co
Augustine & Kyer Schwabacher Bros. & Co
Groceteria Stores Co
Bonney Watson Co
Mitsui & Co
Oriental Trading Co
Cho Ite & Co
Azuma Bros
Japanese-American Commission
Takiguchi
Railroad, Transportation and Power Companies
Puget Sound Traction, Light and Power Co
Seattle Rainier Valley Railway Co
City Light Dept
Western Smelting & Power Co
Pacific Steamship Company
Leading Bakery
Seattle Baking Co
Roslyn Fuel Co
Pacific Coast Coal Co
Pacific Shipping & Fuel Co
United Coal Sales Co
Wellington Coal Co
Central Coal Co