The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-07-18
WORKERS IN THE LUMBER INDUSTRY:

Old High Cost of Living has been clipping your pay check
again with his Shears of Greed.
UnOrganzed conditions of the workers and
mills have kept far below that received by the
lied workers in other lines of work For example, the COM
aborers the cities large towns where organized
receiving $500 day and The skilled abOrers
in the organized plants receiving $500 $OO per day
The of the necessities of life is somewhat regulated
by the received by the wOkethe organized workers
The workers in the lumber industry paying the same
prices for these goods the organized workers Yet not
being organized receiving 81 to 81 day less for doing
the nature of work.
Lumber has scared high that today the producing
afford build chicken house. fact it has adj
yanced at least $1,000 thousand above the price it
brought during the
The working in mill or logging camp produces on
average 1000 feet of lumber per day Each and
worker in the lumber industry is making $1,000 more
day for his employer than at time during the war
period.
There has been practically increase in the lumber
industry since the yet the lumber market has made this
great advance So has Old High Cost of Living.
How is all this remediable? Get together Demand the
union scale. Don't depend Power from High the
employer either voluntarily grant you individual raise
Can the mill stand the raise in at this time?
Where the Tmberworkers Union is well organized this
scale is being paid 1t was granted without protest by
The workers in this industry were prevented from get
ting decent wage compared with other workers. during the
war by OF and TeSe o
tactics not used in industry where the men were or
ganzed This combination cheated and still cheating the
of from 81 So day. This stunt would never
have gotten by with group OF organized workers.
Many driven out of this industry because OF
this unfarness and are now coming it cam
orng for organization such they have been
well that nave
are the result of labor organization. -
Mr. Man. you who have refused to join union affil
lated with A. f. of L. will you refuse to take the Increase
wages after your fellow wOkmen make the stand and get
it? You will not Are craven hearted as to accept the
CHARITY of men yes workers. right in the plant
where you stand out in the hope that lNDl
VDUALLY will be able to pick mOrse OF crumbs from
the bosses table.
You may shout that you RADICAL You may shout
that you are CONSERVATIVES but have watched you
in the PAST KNOW that neither is the We know
you going look at this from American stand
point demand with the rest Of fellow workmen the
right of collective bargaining. -
Can any man stand by the roadside of the NEW DAY,
and watch the of organized by and not
fall Could he look his family in the face, with the
calm of duty well performed knowing the pow
erty it enduring be caused by his actOns Should he
turn deaf the call of his class? There would be but
one road him. the road to the Tree OF Judas where
traitors hang
of today who refuses organization when oppor-
uny the greatest traitor of the He is traitor
to his class helping force them down to the crime level
upward from which they vaanty struggling.
Become part of the great struggle for the NEW DAY
Fall Join the union of craft You can then look
your fellow wormen in the face and both know that you are
the struggle for democracy with surety OF
cess. Without it, FAILURE!