New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-30

total destruction Of its output last
week Members of the l. ". ". we're
seen leaving the neighborhood OF this
mill immediately before the FIRE started.
Unless the Federal government. inter
venes TO protect mills working on air
plane lumber, it is stated, the Aircraft
Production Board will not be able to
secure any of the essential spruce from
this region.
100000 Feet Can Be Cut
A communication TO the Aviation
Service describing conditions in the
lumber camps OF the Northwest states:
There are approximately 10000, 900
feet of spruce logs in the waters Of
Oregon and Washington that can be
cut, and some Of them are being cut
in Oregon now. This may make 5,oo0,-
900 feet Of airplane lumber, but would
not imagine that It would cut more
than that, and it would have to be
very carefully cut TO produce that
amount. There are few camps in
Oregon putting in spruce that the
strike has not closed down, but which
may be closed shortly.
81 sincerely hope that the I. W. W.
will not succeed in pulling them out,
but all Of the spruce producing camps
on Grays Harbor and Willapa Harbor
are tied up except one small camp
which Is trying 10 run, but its logs
were badly burned the other day, and
some |. w. ". were seen coming from
the vicinity, and the fires started i'm
mediately after they left. The suppo-
sition is that they set them. Our
foreman has been seriously threatened
by an anonymous letter warning him
10 leave the company.
"The mills are picketed and the fam
lilies Of mill men are threatened and
intimidated so that the men do not
come back to work and will almost
starve before they will go to work.
Enemies Among I. W. w.
Unless the Federal government
takes q hand immediately there will
be no timbers for shipbuilding and no
spruce for airplsns stock for any ma
ton.
"Ths I. W. W. is principally made
up Of Firms, Austrisns and Germans,
who are the bitter enemies of our
country. 1t is burning shame that
we are sending our boys to protect a
flag which gives these people the lib
critics they are assuming. | sincerely
hope our government will take drastic
steps Immediately to eliminate this
class Of people.
1--WE are fully in accord with the
eight-hour day, but it should be made
universal for the numbering industry
throughout the United States, for II
will bankrupt the industries Of the
Northwest If granted for this district
alone. It Is impossible for the PaciAc
Northwest, producing 5,oO0,o0O,oO0 feet
of lumber, to compete with the South,
producing 10000, 900 feet per year,
as they have much more favorable
freight rates, and the negro labor
also enters largely into the cost OF
production in the South.
"To this add two to four hours
day longer service in the South, and
it means absolute bankruptcy to The
! lumber industry of the Northwest
Make the eight-hour day universal and
we will have some chance Of meeting
conpetition-that is, we can exist.
Quick Action Urged.
The Southern mills can make money
when the mills of the Northwest are
absolutely bankrupt, but If we are go
ing to operate and get timbers for
shipbuilding and spruce for airplsnes
the government will have to act, and
act quickly.
ut is a burning shame, when the
shIpbuilders in the Eastern cities and
Canada are willing TO pay good prices
for material and are begging for It,
that a handful of men, principally for
eicners, banded together under the
name Of the |. ", W, many of them
making an open boast that just as soon
as our boys arc in France there will
be things doing in this country which
will surprise US, can close down our