The Seattle general strike ended with few
material gains won by workers, and the shipyard dispute that had ignited
the action remained unresolved.
Over the course of the next decade, Seattle’s
powerful labor movement would be severely weakened. For these
reasons, the general strike is often judged to have been a failure.
The Town
Crier, a Seattle
literary magazine, ran this retrospective of the “late lamented strike” on
February 15.