Yale merged with nearby Union Laundry

Native Arts and Cultures Foundation - Center for Native Arts and Cultures
Portland, United States

As a result of workers’ strikes in 1919 that disrupted the city’s commercial laundry business, Yale merged with nearby Union Laundry (its name is a misnomer because laborers were actually blacklisted for unionizing), and further consolidated under the Home Services Company to lower overhead and meet the new labor regulations.

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