The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1913-07-11
THE SAWMILL WORKERS AND
W0ODSMEN JOIN ORGANIZATION
E. p MARSH OF EVERETT MAKES NUMBER OF ADDRESSES
TO TIMBER WORKERS ON GRAYS HARBOR DURING THE
NATIONAL HOLIDAY CELEBRATION.
(By E. P. Marsh

has Golden Potach Montamara Festo
boedup enthusiasm cosh and foolish with total disregard
what anybody thinks affords
% for certain to the holiday cravings of the human
President Brown of the Timber Workers and myself those
big times such date but particularly of the e
tvites write Suffice it to that they glittering
and spectacular of profit the businessmen and
antics be any criterion to go by.
President Brown and myself the Harbor for much
people put by
the hmge organize into big union under the
tectng wing OF the A. F. OF L. the great timber industry OF tins
Northwest Let be known then that the Grays HIarbor cities of
Aberdeen and oqam the principal ports of call for the
thousands Of woodmen in Southwestern Washington For past
has been annual for the Ogge celebrate i'll their
Our greatest strides far in organizing the of the woods have
Taro The boys there have been doing splendid
work Some three months they got their heads together and they
E tGrr % o f Of MONEY! and retnina home after # was
but aching heads and that dark brown taste Let's throw head
them hold meetings hire bands them not
get tanked up all their money the bar Wen
couple speakers down and Wen send those back
camp with union cards IN their pockets and an earnest purpose an
ambition do something practical help themselves burning the
And Brown and went to the Iar9or wish wasI
describe you days They wonder
full inspiring. Three meetings held all of them pendd
attended Men to headquarters sngy and groups to hear
this and seldom did they without
nng for the One very tired sometimes preaching union
Ohwha ieuse moments when the struggle hardly worth
while But happenings such these constitute the oasis the desert
of organization Here men, literally hundreds of
them hear the message of cooperative effort Not Jangne
dspuaos of knowita wiseacres but body of men, filled
With burning of social and industrial injustice and anxious
find the way right their
fully before the meaning of the saying, the field
S ready for the harvest"
A has been gained in of
the osges Society has given them low plane of morals TO
and gamble and fight has been the plus ultra of their
according accepted Obue society theirs
by and by has been Oohy
crmnaly Neither by instinct by craving has the
reached that low moral plane Where he has reached he
has done because of environment Because his employer cared
nothing comforts and placed him amid surroundings
inevitably deadened the finer feelings We find
the logger today reading and studying economics but without the
knowledge and that from action The logger
his surroundings resens the basis which society treats
him but realizes the mpotency of individual action Our industrial
calling forth his study and then passionate
because of its basic principles action And Grays
arbor wonderful under movement at which
the employer who realizes its potency stands aghost
Isn't it strange and rather funny the doc methods the EN-
poyers who would throttle adopt Down in Aber