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The fourth puzzle will lead you to another QR code hidden somewhere in the Hilton hotel. When you find the code and scan it with your phone, it will take you to Puzzle #5 — the last puzzle to solve before you find the final location! Congratulations for making it this far!
To find the code, you will have to learn a little more about Oregon labor history. Make a note of the answers to these 3 questions, and add them together to find your next clue.
Question 1
PCUN (Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste / Northwest Tree Planters and Farmworkers United) is Oregon’s farmworker union. Agricultural workers were excluded from the collective bargaining rights and other labor protections granted to most other US workers by the National Labor Relations Act in 1935. Farm workers have had to fight for workplace rights state by state, and often lag decades behind other industries in winning basic protections like a guaranteed minimum wage and the right to form a union.
What year did farmworkers win their first collective bargaining agreement in Oregon?
A = the four-digit year.
Question 2
The first recorded labor union in the Pacific Northwest was the Typographical Society, founded in 1853 in Portland, before Oregon even became a state. The California gold rush had led to rising prices, but wages in the printing industry remained stationary as workers poured in to the territory. The society fought for a minimum wage, controlling the labor market against new settlers, and discouraging the introduction of new machinery. The society was affiliated with the International Typographical Union, the oldest union in the United States. As the work of typographers declined with automation, computers and mechanization of the print media, the ITU dissolved. The majority of its members voted to join the Teamsters, and the rest joined the Communications Workers of America.
What year did the International Typographical Union disband?
B = the four-digit year.
Question 3
The 1935 Pacific Northwest lumber strike was organized by the Northwest Council of Sawmill and Timber Workers Union (STWU). The industry-wide strike began in Bellingham, WA, and quickly spread to Olympia and Portland. By May 6, over 10,000 lumber workers across the Pacific Northwest walked off the job. Already by the first day, the strike was one of the largest in the history of the region. By the middle of May, 90 percent of the Northwest industry’s capacity was shut down and 30,000 workers walked the picket lines. In 2022, heirs to this legacy of sawmill worker militancy organized another strike in Oregon and Washington, this time over health care premiums.
What is the number of the union local that led the 2022 strike?
C = the three-digit number of the union local.
Solve the puzzle
To solve the puzzle, add A+B+C. The answer is a four-digit number. When you submit the correct answer, you will receive instructions to find the QR code to the final puzzle.
Remember that Puzzle #5 will be published at 5 pm on Saturday, August 3. If you find the QR code before then, you can either bookmark the link in your phone browser to load it later, or come back to the location after the puzzle is published to scan it and load the page.
