Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-01

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tinuous regulation shifts of the
Emergencies, such as:
ANY breakage of equipment,
train wrecks or other unayoid-
able stOppages of transportation
facilities; fires, floods, wash-Outs,
siifes; any OF these that stop nor
NAL production at a plant or log
ging camp that cause lost time
to major part of the employees
of any unit directly employed
In production, shall be consider
ed as a temporary emergency up
to the time production is resum-
ed, and the labor employed on
such temporary work shall be
paid for at straight time; but any
labor performed after normal
working hours, with the intent of
increasing normal production,
that could have been performed
in normal hours by employing
more men shall not be permitted
this classification.
General overtime cOnsidera-
tions:
Machine tenders in logging
operations, mills and plants, such
as engineers, pumpmen, sawyers,
edgermen, trimmermen, planer-
men and so on, have been and are
expected to be on the job a few
minutes in advance of the start
ing whistle in order to prepare
the individual machines for OPP
Grafton, and the practice and
custom of the industry has been
to allow in the rate of pay given
these workers an allowance for
these workers an allowance for
practice has been well under
stood by both employers and
employees over many years. Such
preliminary work shall be limited
to approximately ten minutes
daily. E.
Steal Pay
This open stealing of time
should be understood very clear
ly by the workers forced to join
the company Al.
The writer will quote briefly
from experience in the Long Bell
mill at Longview in the year of
1929 to show the above is an old
lumber baron-4L trick.
First of all, overtime is quail
fled by emergencies. By such
agreements made not by the
workers but by the Al leadership
which is always looking out for
the operators interests, all pay
will be eliminated for overtime.
Ten minutes daily on the ma
chimes makes a tremendous in
crease in profits donated" by
the workers.
For instance, in Long Bell mill,
East Fir Unit had five head rigs.
We were on the machines and
rolls at five minutes before the
whistle, two to three minutes
after the whistle blew for lunch
on the last half of the shift and
after the shift was over. On the
line this makes l6 minutes per
shift. Five lines in one unit maks
so minutes per eight hour shift.
Two shifts makes two hours and
40 minutes. Two units of the
same capacity makes five hours
and 20 minutes stolen in one day.
During a break down on one
shift the foreman told the writer
that it was costing the company
exactly four dollars per minute
while the one head rig was down.
All this time makes an increase
to the operators income OF $l2W
per day.
Fired If Object
These outrageous conditions
have existed ever since the com
pany Al union was organized in
1916, only to be increased since
che NRA codes have been in ef-
feet. The NRA code authority is
fully aware of such conditions
but refuses to take action. Ii a
worker voices his protest he is
Immediately discharged or de-
noted to a more disagreeable
job with less pay.
These grievances will continue
to exist as long as the lumber
workers remain unorganized or
accept passively the terms OF the
company-controlled union.
The National Lumber Workers
Union has a plan to gain better
working conditions an dhigher
wages. The workers in the COM
pany union must take action by
forcing the leadership to call
speeial mass meetings OF the
membership where a rank and
file committee will be elected to