Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1917-07-17

we can offer. In our new
Montana camps we endeavored to
give the men everything they should
have by way of sanitation and good
food, but they struck just the same
No man can say but we have set
the best tables in our camps that
money could provide. So far as i
can see we are powerless in the
present situation and can do nothing
but let events take their course Il
feel that the people of Standpoint,
and of all the country affected are
not alive to the calamity which is
upon them. They should take a live
interest and assist us in getting men
who want to work and give them
protection when they are on the job
l said calamity, and that is what 4
mean. For the shutting down of
the lumber industry in this country
is going to bring distress to the
laboring classes by fall; and when
the laboring classes are out of money
what is going to happen to the mer-
chants Yes, we have a few men
in our logging camps; perhaps a
dozen. But what can that number
do toward keeping our mill sup
piled? The strikers have pickets
guarding the roads leading to our
camps and we cannot get new men
to go to work unless they can be
protected against the sembarrass-
ments which the strikers put upon
them"
Kaiser Furnishes the Grub.
1t is well known fact that the
local branch of the /. w. w. organi-.
cation is well provided, up to the
MI or
for the support of its idle members
Those having families are provided
for from headquarters, while the
single men are for the greater part
grouped in camps and provisions,
bought in quantity, sent out to them
Thursday morning, messenger from
the "wobbly" headquarters evidently
on his rounds looking after some of
the families, encountered "Dad''
Twiss. In the course of the CONVEX
sation between the two men, Mr.
Twiss said: "How do your men and
their families live when they are not
working?"
eve take care of them from head
quarters. l distributed $3.50 to fam
lilies in the city yesterday" was the
'But where do you get the mon
ey?" asked Mr.. Twiss.
ooh, the kaiser furnishes the mon
ey," was the response.
"Do you mean to tell me-" asked
Mr.. Twiss, "that Germany is furnish
ing money to you fellows to carry
on your strike with?
"That is what l do" was the re-
Spouse.
Situation at LacIede.
"Pickets have posted themselves
at Laclede and are harassing those
who come there to seek work. l.
W. WIS have twice called a shut
down at the A. c. White mill but
have been unsuccessful" said F. A
/ White this afternoon with relation
to conditions at the White mill. cat
our railroad camp we are getting out
some cedar and at our camp in
/ Boundary county we are completely
shut down. We have enough logs
to last month and after that unless
the strike is over we will have to
shut down the mills. The l. w. WIS
keep a gang of eight or ten men
near the depot and continue to in
timidate those who are at work and
those who come in to go to work"
The camps of the Meadow Creek
/ Lumber company at Meadow Creek
are working and the mill is running
full blast.
At Libby all the camps are work
ing and the Libby Lumber company
is operating its mill day and night
A company of the troops was sent
to Libby last week but as yet there
has been no disturbance and martial
law has not been declared and it
seems that there will be no necessity
for adopting such measure.
Martin Harrington and R. N. Rue,
prisoners at the county Jail held on a
bottlegging charge, were brought
before Judge Flynn Wednesday and
pleaded guilty. They were fined
$4,000 each and sentenced to 80 days
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