The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-23
Lumber Workers Answer the
Bosses Wage Cutting Campaign

lumber barons beginning to realize how
that the struggle is on and are resorting to
every means of attack.
One of the recent Developments in this sit
uation is letter that was sent to all the lum
Der barons from the offices of the Loyal Le-
gion of Loggers and Lumbermen, known
throughout the Northwest as the "4L's" This
letter, dated August 7, states that "two COM
pany houses were burned and charge of
powder was set off so feet from the bunk
houses at the Moclips stockade."
The LIS, company union outfit, tries
to create the Impression that the two company
houses that were burnt are the houses in
which scabs were housed and it does this in
order to create sympathy amongst the lumber
barons for the strike-breaking outfit. But
the truth of the matter is that the company
houses that were burned, weer those in which
strikers families lived at Moclips, WASH and
the houses weer fired in the middle of The
night by gents of the bosses in their CAM
paign of terror against the strikers.
Defend Themselves.
The charge of powder referred to in the
letter was also planted by agents of the bosses.
Every night the bosses send providers, with
guns and searchlights around the shack in
which the strikers of the M. r. Smith Lumber
and Single Company are housed by the Work
ers International Relief, and the only reason
why this house has not been burned down by
the agents of the bosses, is because the work
ers have guards on duty day and night to
ward off these attacks.
Referring to the linen and women in Bell
ngham" who ARE bitter because of recent
wage cuts there" the letter of the LIS gives
the purpose of their letter away. They state
1T isn't the wage cut nearly so much as the
way the company did it." In other words the
LIS organization, which is a company union
and twin-brother of the American Legion, is
appealing to the bosses to employ this out
fit so as to better put their wage-cuts across.
The way the loyal Legion" would have
gone about it, would be as follows: They would
Organize" the workers in their Us organ
zation and would call a meeting of the workers
with stool pigeons planted all over the meet
ing amongst the rank and file and then some
stool-pigeon would get up on the floor of Che
meeting and propose to help the poor" bosses
out of their predicapent by proposing the
workers themselves ask that the wages be cut
to keep their jobs for little while longer
rather than to go out on strike and have the
rd 'stry shut down"
The LIS chide the bosses for not putting
over their annual "Rolleo," which is contest
AMONGST the lumber workers in riding logs
At this "Rolleo," TIE bosses used to come and
shake hands with the workers, the winners got
few dollars or prize and some free feeds
are given out to the stiffs, dhus "har
monious' and peaceful" relations are main
tanned. This year the bosses in Bell;ncham
did not have their a-nral - nc. 49, = -
the wage cut was too stiff and too raw for
The men that it wold ta.e Is. :
picnic or "Rolleo" to quelcn the flames Of
revolt.
The statement in the letter which presumes
to quote worker saying, ~ we could get
away with it, we would blow their quits out"
is Manufactured simply for the effect that it
will have on the bosses, like a "s"'"--'"N." to
I'D re lie loss 3 to / emit The Us TO or