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CORRECTION: Union struggles to reach, recruit Starbucks workers.
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Seattle Times (Seattle, WA)
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January 4, 2007
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Byline: Melissa Allison
CORRECTION: Information in this article, originally published January 2, 2007, was corrected January 4, 2007. A previous version of this story appeared to put the blame on the Industrial Workers of the World for violent episodes that occurred in the Northwest. The IWW was more often a target of violence, and as the story said, four American Legionnaires were killed in 1919 when they marched on the IWW's union hall in Centralia planning to attack i...
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