The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-04-11
MILL EMPLOYEES SHOW
THEIR LOYALTY
Large Company Organized of
Loyal Legion of LOggers
and Lumbermen

A meeting was held at the Boise
Payette Lumber Company boarding
house, Monday morning by Captain
Farr of the U. S. Army Signal Corps,
for the purpose of perfecting an or
ganization of the Loyal Legion of
Loggers and Lumbermen. The big
plant was closed at II o'clock an order
to give the employees an opportunity to
attend.
Captain Farr explained the purpose
of the organization briefly and force
fully. He stated that so much of our
war program depended upon keeping
the output of logging camps and saw
mills to the maximum in order to pro-
vide the needed timber, that the feder-
al government had authorized the war
department to organize this class OF
labor by the volunteer system,
throughout the country. In spite OF
the efforts of the l. w. w. and other
German propaganda, the captain said
the lumbermen we're responding to the
governments call enthusiastically and
were enrolling by the thousands.
The captain did not mince his words
in putting it up to the audience. he
stated that the woodsman's duty was
lust as important in this war as the
soldiers; that our armies would be
impotent without the whole-hearted
support of our industrial units back
of them; that there was now no neu-
trail ground for an American to stand
on; that the time had come to draw
the line and everybody would be count
ed as for or against the government
according to his choice; that the lum-
Der industry was so vital to the win
ming of the war that the government
must see to it that the men employed
in it were loyal and trustworthy.
At the close of the address every
man and woman numbering some $50
in all, came forward with only one
exception) and took the oath of mem
bership and allegiance. The exception
took his check and left for parts un-
known, evidently concluding from the
sentiment shown that it was no place
for anyone harboring disloyal senti-
ments.
Each member took an oath, for the
duration of the war, to devote his or
her efforts to the production of logs or
lumber to meet the needs of the in
dustries producing materials to be
used for war purposes against our
common enemies, and to do every
thing within his power to further the
cause of the United States of Amer
lea in the present conflict. Each one
was given button and membership
card. Each card is numbered and a
record kept of it in the district office
Employers using this class of labor
are required to give members having
these cards the preference when hlr-
ing help.
The Emmett Legion will be known
as Local Legion No. H.. 1t is in the
Eleventh District, which already has
membership of over eleven thound, OF
which First Lieut.. W. E. Crumpacker
of Portland, Ore, is the commandant,
and Colonel Bisque of the U. S. Signal
Reserve Corps is the commander OF
the western division. E. c. Seamans
was elected as the local secretary.
Captain Farr left Tuesday for Cas-
.cade and other Long Valley points to |
continue the organization of Legions.
He was greatly pleased with the en-
thusiasm and patriotism shown in En-
NETT. AS contrast to it he told OF
one lumber camp he visited In the
north where some two hundred men
were employed, of whom only 16 would
take the pledge to support the nation
in it's hour of need.