The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1921-03-11
BRO. CALL PAINTS GOOD PICTURE
OF STATUS OF TIMBER INDUSTRY

day than to see the umberWorkerS
of the other sections 20 on an
cight-hour day.
In their message to the dear pub
lie, sent out on Sunday, March 9th,
they include this very significant
paras ,aph: Even with freight rates
restored to their former parity, the
West Coast mills will have serious
handicaps to overcome by reason
Of the South being on a standard
ten-hour day, with a common labor
wage of $1.75 TO SOB as compared
with standard cight-hour day in
Oregon and Washington and a
common wage scale averaging from
1920 to $500. Labor is sixty per
cent Of the cost Of manufacturing
after it has been logged II is
about forty-fivc Ter cent Of tn
cost Of logging
1T is almost inconceivable that
any worker in the timber industry
can read that sort Of stuff and
then not be able to see from what
direction the wind is blowing.
The Daily Washmgtonian' of
Hoquiam, Washington, on Sunday,
March 9th, credits Field Officer
f. S. Murphy of the Loyal Legion
with the declaration that conditions
are fine in the camps Of ,hc Poison
Logging Company, that this will be
the biggest year in the history OF
the Loyal Legion, also that they
have the radicals on the GO The
latter declaration will no doubt
prove very interesting and anus
-, lou rhn
cooling their heels inside the Loyal
Legion. 1t is worthy of note that
Mr.. Murphy is not credited with
any declaration on the question of
a decent wage, perhaps the wages
are satisfactory too from the stand
point Of the Loyal Legion, the less
some people receive for their work
the better they seem to think they
are getting along.
If the underwriters want to re-
store decent rate of wages, they
should organize under the banner
of the legitimate labor movement.
If they do not want the long hour
day as at Cosmopolis and Clear
Lake, they should organize, if they
do not want peonage in the timber
industry they must organize On
the other hand, if they want low
have no regard for the eight-hour
day, if they are willing to turn
their very existence over to the
tender mercies' of the profit seek
ers, the Legitimate labor movement
can do nothing for them, all they
need to do is to stick with the
Loyal Legion, so-called "shop-com-
mittees,' and other mutual admira-
ton societies and they will be in
direct line for industrial servitude
of the most un-American type.
Along with other ultra-respect-
able American autocrats who are
shouting for a so-called return to
"normalcy," the executive, legisla-
tive, and judicial pwers Of the State
of Washington, and in quite a
number of others have aligned them
selves with a stone-age policy of
large manufacturers that will fas-
ten an autocratic domination over
the political and industrial lives of
the workers that would make the
most hard-boiled Hun of the Kais-
er's regime turn green with envy.
They are power crazy.
This is the workers problem. He
can solve it through strong, intelli-
gent organization Now is the time
to ORGANIZE. Progress does not
just happen to happen. Progress
is attained through unselfish eff
fort and not a little sacrifice, and
the wage Garner who is not willing
to sacrifice in his own interests,
need not expect, and he has not
the right to expect that others
will make sacrifices for him. GET
INTO THE UNION TODAY. Let
, every man do his share and the
I whole task becomes easier for ev-
cry one.