For over 47 years, Frank Turco worked Seattle's 3rd & Pike Newsstand,

Turco was the president of the Seattle Newsboys Union Local 621, and a

ferocious battler for the working class,  Turco was Vice President of

the general strike committee during the "Seattle General Strike of 1919"

the first "Strike" involving a whole city in American History".

The General Strike was also perhaps Seattle’s most defining moment.

This site is dedicated to Frank Turco and the progressive past of

Seattle and Washington State. This Site contains information about  the renovation of Frank Turco Memorial Newsstand, as well as newspaper articles from 1918 through 2008 as well as Letters written by Turco to JFK, John L Lewis and others.

In addition to the story of Frank Turco, This site  contains information and links to Frank Little and the Wobblies, The Centralia Massacre. The Seattle Union Record, the only Labor owned daily newspaper in U.S History." As well as Marion Zioncheck the Radical Seattle Congressmen, and contributor to FDR's " New Deal".

One of thirteen children of Italian immigrants, Frank Turco was born

in Pittsburgh, PA in 1878. After working in the coal minds as a small

boy, Turco headed west and worked on the railroads until an On-the-Job

injury cost him a leg in 1907  After years of litigation Turco

received $800 for the loss of his leg and by 1919  opened a Newsstand on

Seattle's 3rd and Pike, Turco would work this newsstand and fight for workers rights until the day he died  in 1966.

Turco fought for the rights of "the common people" in 1918 concerning

a married women's right to work, Turco exclaimed  " I believe in

freedom. Women should do what she sees fit. as long as the workers

believe in a women staying at home because she is tied up to a certain

man. Just so long... we'll have slavery. Man cannot be free as long

woman is not free. "

Turco attended labor trials, protests and conventions across the

country for almost 60 years. Convention reporters have said, “They all groan when he (Turco) gets up to speak wishing he would go away. But he doesn’t.  "No convention was complete until Turco sounded off."