A statement by Oregon House Majority Leader Les AuCoin regarding his previous affiliation and employment with The Oregonian newspaper. AuCoin states that he had worked during for The Oregonian for a short time in 1960 during a strike, "having no comprehension of the real meaning of a strike," before being employed again by the newspaper after the strike had ended in November 1965. A handwritten note on the front page, which was presumbly written years later, states: "During first primary, Demo [sic] opponents used my Oregonian employment against me."
Address of US Congressman Les AuCoin delivered before the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) convention in Oregon in 1982. In his address, Congressman AuCoin discussed President Reagan vetoing an anti-recession housing bill, unemployment, and the 1982 midterm elections, stating "This, my friends, is a fight, a fight over who is going to run America. Is it going to be rich men who have never stood in unemployment lines and have no understanding of what it means to be a construction boiler maker, the ranks of whom today are 90 per cent unemployed? Is this country going to be run by rich men and ultraconservatives who have no conception of what Reaganomics are doing to devastate the communities and families across this state and across this country? Or instead, is this great country going to be run by you, and your neighbors, and by workers everywhere...?"
One of a pair of humorous images dating from the 1888 Presidential election between Harrison and Cleveland. A crowd of men and boys watches as a man carrying an American flag is carried in a wheelbarrow down the street. A caption below the wheelbarrow reads, “Hurrah for Harrison.” Harrison, like the majority of Forest Grove at the time, was a Republican; he lost the election. A related image captioned “Hurrah for Cleveland” shows the same man being dumped out of the wheelbarrow into the muddy street. The Oregonian printed a description of this scene on November 15, 1888, noting that two local men had made a bet about the outcome of the election and that the loser had to carry the other one in a wheelbarrow procession through town, but that the loser dumped out the winner as a joke. The man holding the wheelbarrow was Charles Fritz, who ran a local photography studio; the man riding in the wheelbarrow was Joseph Vaughn. This photograph was taken in downtown Forest Grove, standing just south of the present-day intersection of Main Street and 21st Avenue, looking towards the north-northwest. It is one of very few images showing downtown Forest Grove’s original wooden buildings. The sign for the shoe shop which served as a workshop for children at the Forest Grove Indian School in the early 1880s is barely visible behind the crowd on the left. None of the buildings pictured survive today.
