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Mary Deaton is an author and historian from Tacoma, Washington.
Mary Deaton was commissioned in 1979-1980 by Local 23 and the Port of Tacoma to write their history under a grant from the Washington Commission for the Humanities to the Working Waterfront Project sponsored by The Port of Tacoma and ILWU, Local 23. Deaton researched and visited ILWU headquarters San Francisco as well as collecting oral histories from many of the members and children of members. Deaton submitted a manuscript "Hungry Port, A Documented History of Longshoring in Tacoma, WA," to the commissioning board, which they rejected. In the manuscript Deaton took a pro-Congress of Industrial Organizations position and delved further into the reasons for
Between 1977-1981, Deaton worked as a free-lance writer specializing in labor, labor history and women's issues. In 1979, The Weekly published her piece on the anniversary of The Seattle General Strike of 1919. Mary Deaton had numerous other publications in local newspapers and history and union journals and in 1981 served as project director for the 1981 Labor Film Festival of the Pacific Northwest Labor History Association.