Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-26

standards than they ever have
before.
According to reports from the
cutters and drivers, the pulp mill
operators have a scheme of a cen
tralized buying agent tMr. Hen
derson) in Seattle; paying $500
per cord for all wood from west
coast pulp mills. In order to
evade legally paying higher
prices to the cutters and haulers,
the books are doctOred to show
that $1,000 has been paid for the
same wood.
Prices for pulp are the highest
in history. Du Pont Powder
Works is buying huge orders for
munitions packing purposes.
Other war manufactures are
using paper on larger scales.
The prices are sky-rocketing, and
wages and conditions for the
workers are taking a nose dive
downward.
AL Leaders Aid Drive
After the 54th Convention of
the AFL, and the unlimited sup
port VIM. Green promised the
capitalists in smashing the work
ing class struggles for ghiher
wages, etc, by expelling from the
AFL unions all militants who re-
fuse to be sold out, acting as chief
stool pigeon in having the for
eign born workers deported, to
further intimidate the workers
and stifle any struggle whatso-
ever.
The rank and file membership
of the newly organized Sawmill
and Timber Workers Union
must follow the tactics and &C.
tions Of the lOggers In the Bloc
del camp at Sappho in stopping
the company's installment of the
As hour week.
With the assistance of NLWU
delegates a petition was circu-
lated and a responsible commit
tee elected to present the de-
mands. The company. seeing the
militant response of the workers,
withdrew all attempts to en-
force longer hours upon the
workers.
@. S., Deportation, Boss Attacks
The criminal syndicalist cases
of the four workers In Kelso and
Spokane are terroristic measures
being used by the operators
agents to smash the National
Lumber Workers Union. The
Weyerhauser and Long Bell mills
in L0ngview are at present fore
ing the rank and file members
OF the AFL union into the boss
controlled Al union to further
tie them down to slavery.
These vicious attempts to rail.
road the workers that have put
forth the program of the NLWU
to long terms In prison, Is design
ed to scare the workers away
from the militant program of
struggle, and keep the NLWU
from organizing their mills.
Fellow worker Ray Carlson,
delegate of the NLWU in Spo-
kane territory, has been active
the last two years in organizing
the NLWU, has been ordered de-
ported to Sweden because of his
activity in organizing the short
lOggers to struggle against the
Weyerhauser syndicate.
The measures of terrorism
come at time the operators are
preparing to reap the largest
profits from the lumber work.
ers ever known. They are prepar-
ing to move every obstacle In the
way.
Fear NLWU
Only the NLWU with its class
struggle program has them scar.
ed, for they fully realize that
with the workers organized I'M
der such a program they will be
forced to pay higher wages.
The National Lumber Work.
els Union has been in the field
for several years, carrying on
bitter struggle against such en-
croachments against the living
standards OF the lumber work.
ers.
At present. with the many
grievances piling up in the mills
and camps without any struggle,
the operators are free to put
over plans of speed-up, or social
ed efficiency" measures, without
opposition from the workers.
The NLWU realizes the lum-
Der workers want to struggle.
Being a rank and file controlled
union with a limited amount of
organizers, it hasn't been able
to cover all parts of the lumber
industry.
The NLWU is mobilizing all
available forces, and is organizing
concentration points in the in
dustry. where delegates will be
trained for immediate field work
by organizing camps and mills.
This will enable the NLWU to
put men in strategic points in
the industry, will enable immedi.
ate organization Of the lumber
workers to combat on q mass
scale these vicious attacks on
their living standards.
Tho lIlmhar workers are haing