Word: lumbered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christmas shutdown. In many a mill town the rising whine of the headsaw biting into a log dies away; the absence of the pulsing rhythm of a sawmill-compounded of the piercing wing-wing of the trimmer, of the throb of the conveyors, of the thud of lumber falling on transfer chains-makes every day seem like Sunday. The noon whistle, no longer a deep roar that reaches for miles through the woods, is just a perfunctory hoot for the millwrights working on repairs in the silent recesses of the mill. Workmen in this part of the country, even more...
...closed 38 mills and five logging camps. Although there was some talk that its long extension might injure national defense, the strike-ridden Northwest has had more than its share of strikes, and this one aroused little public outcry. But it was like no other Northwest lumber strike on record. It promised to set a new-pattern in Northwest labor relations. It threatened to isolate an extreme left-wing group of C. I. O. unions. It might even foreshadow a new period in joint A. F. of L.C. I. O. relations throughout the entire...
...unions have long fought for dominance of the Northwest lumber industry. A. F. of L.'s is the Lumber and Sawmill Workers' Union, powerful, expanding (after a sorry period of scandals in its early organizing days) and affiliated with Bill Hutcheson's rich Carpenters and Joiners. C. I. O.'s is the International Woodworkers of America, organized in 1937 by Harold Pritchett, a Canadian, aggressive left-winger and Northwest ally of Harry Bridges. So fierce were the jurisdictional fights between these two unions that in one three-month period 900 men went to the hospitals...
...lumber business has boomed. A. F. of L. unions have demanded higher wages. While A. F. of L. picketed a big Weyerhaeuser mill in Everett, demanding 7½? more than the present minimum 62½? an hour, the C. I. O. union stepped in, signed a contract gaining only 2½? an hour increase. This situation demonstrated, for anybody to see, the need for labor unity...
...insolvency fence, would pay interest this winter on its bonds. Some Katy bondholders have received nothing since 1937; its preferred stockholders since 1931 ; its common shareholders since 1930. Usually an oil-and-granger road, hit hard by the decline in crop exports. Katy recently hauled 320 carloads of lumber, seven carloads of wooden tent poles, 15 carloads of Army rubbers, 181 carloads of mattresses to Fort Sam Houston and elsewhere...