The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-13
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INDUsTRIALIzING A LEGEND.
ne Century

The Century
In days logging crews primitive
methods by special of fronersmen thrown forward from the TEEN
ing civilization back of hem but not too much affected by it, the FOLKLORE
tale Of Paul Bunyan developed That story Of giant Ogg
his g performed might find
interesting He made an enormous AK with flexible handle with which
anytng pulled replaced where desired
left the present rolling grassy plain on which trees will hardly grow
They set Niagara Falls gouged out the Grand Canyon of the Colorado
Psus had in miracle working
the blue the time @bue like that
capitalized onopzed machine industry oxen gave
Cnke engines and the yarder the logging road became rarOad
The interests Of the highly skilled
ductn but that good pay go up
drying Stove that the men should have individual hunks not ar
ranged tier tier but located
By organizing they securing some of these
cut wages and lowered the standard of
living.
no worker admired him any
Now somebody spending lot Of eving
Esther sbepard oSs bv d vr % D lanes venS one 1y
given by the Red River Lumber Co., which
to the unOrganzed workf Tor
None of these have had lOgge
another latest by James Coyd Bowman is more likely to do
the propaganda work evidently intended is deliberately written
The Adventures of Paul Bunyan is pure unadulad poison p
Bunan becomes great umberman with ten thousand gge working
h oeF runs camp IN " double hunks are pictured rising one above
Overwok prevnlble bad conditions
boss and deadly the
real man. will gladly undertake.
The whole emphasis is production timber
record Paul tells them thew must make @ TO fSta6nSn the
what need is of all
standing here going to waste what need is
band of real
to the timber cruisers We hear
the book camp loyalty loyalty the boss etc. These actual tu
words used and again. tho hypnotic
lumberjack who reads the stuff
Paul picks staff Of Swedish actually men,
Swdes the only for Bosses ey keep
shut except when they eating growing they're
when fighting uprising the Swedes will
make a tough body-guard"
Divide and rle mbeack reads this book ever
gets into rebeou frame of mind he will
attacking his kind not Swede will suspect Swedish
fellow worker "
Of all happens camp is blamed onto the men
who are only big children after ALL according
propaganda that it is easy shirk."
Typical of the tery attempt give new den
lon TO TINS very word ssorbi" Many
of contempt Perhaps children
For them an original explanation supplied The bookeper
au iou nave dead timber In camp These refer
lazy to work. and so imagine themselves the other
or else they moral towards They up and
make place for themselves The result the
cutters to and then chkadees around
their shanes and become clubhouse grOuches all call them
Scissor bills /"
think cunning motive and the class bias Of be Ad
ventures well enough ypied by this let it 90 without
further comment Except perhaps for the These
is constant striving to call attention
and subdivisions the division and the boss
nothing there but loyalty -
The thing ends with advising gang to marry settle down
and become farmers as the woods smaller their
The Adventures of Paul Bunyan" will
west coast Lumpernans Association will
for it that know of is Hermna
enough-acks
erminology-tho after all that is not 90 well done
-vERN SMITH
SEX STARVED LADIES.