Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-05
SPECIAL NEWS
for the
Lumber Worker
Edited by JAMES MURPHY
Secretary National Lumber Workers Union

! pup NOOu lluustTy nO UNION
other than the NLWU has at,
tempted to organize and lead
them in struggle for their de-
mands. In the past few weeks
an unorganized move has been
made by the cutters In the North
west to draft their demands and
force the pulpmil companies
to grant them.
The majority of the mills are
organized into the crafts of the
AFL No attempt is made by the
AFL officials to organize and
lead these workers in militant
struggle for their grievances, as
this would tend to sOlidify the
mill workers with the lowly paid
pulp wood cutters. contrary to
the program of the All.
Pulpwood Cutters Must Or
ganize and Prepare for Struggle
AT the present time in Forks,
Wash, the pulp wood cutters are
sponsoring IA conference for the
purpose of developing struggle
for an increase in cutting ard per
cord.
The NLWU has given cOnsid-
cradle assistance TO these work
ers, but in view of the broad and
unorganized state of the pulp
wood industry, spontaneous
strikes are very easily defeated
by the operators.
Forks Conference Must Be Spear.
Head for United Front Struggle
With an ever increasing de-
mand for paper due to the I'M
mediate war preparations, the
mill companies are piling up war
time profits
The cutters in Forks, Aber-
deem and Bellingham are not
organized into any union. With
out being organized we fall easy
prey of the well organized ma.
chine of the operators. We fully
realize there is no other union
in the lumber industry except
the NLWU has a program and
OrganizatiOnal procedure that
can win the demands of the cut
tiers.
Without organization we can
not expect to put up strong re-
sistance to these new and fresh
attacks of the operators. The
cutters have been looking for
unionization and the Forks Con-
ference must be the force that
initiates this important and time
ly issue.
Their demands have already
been presented to the Washing,
ton Pulp and Paper Co., and the
operators, realizing there is no
organization among the cutters
and no direct connection with
their workers in the mills, will
answer NO.
First of all a strong Organiza.
tiOn committee must be organ
lied to put out calls to the en-
tire pulp wood industry, to start
immediate organization into the
NLWU.
Second, contact must be made
by the committee with the men,
bership of the craft unions In
the pulp mills. Opposition groups
must be established so as to
have force to c0unteract the
sitting tactics the officials will
use to drive dis-unity among the
members.
Third, a complete check-up on
all mills and camps that are pro-
ducing pulp.
The call shall be for the en-
dOrsement of the mill workers in
support of the cutters in their
strike action.
Close Relation of Cutters and
Mill Workers
We must have the support of
the mill workers. The mills can
run several weeks with the sup
ply of wood in the yards. In order
to strike an effective blow at the
operators we must tie up the
pulp wood industry. A strike
must be organized by the rank
and file workers A centralized
strike committee must be estab-
lished, both of cutters and mill
workers.
One lesson stands out like a
lighthouse from the experiences
of the Frisco and Textile strikes,
is that one basic job in the pre-
paratiOns for the strike, is to eX-
pose in advance and consistently
the purposes and tricky man.
coverings of the top leadership
of the AFL, the sabotage of the
renegade IWW and the company
controlled Al.
The strike of the mill workers
in klamath Falls Summer 1881
also the seven months delay in
holding the workers of Longview
back from winning their de.
mands is open indictment of the
ALL and Al Officialdom. The
AFL officials will do every thing