Word: lumbering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the ice went out of the Littlefork River in northern Minnesota with a great rush, playing hell with International Lumber Co. Most years it would make little difference to International whether or not the Littlefork rose 26 feet in a few days. It did this spring because for about ten miles the Littlefork was a river of logs. Piled on its ice all winter by 600 lumberjacks were 11,000,000 feet of white and norway pine destined for the company's lumber mills at International Falls, near where the Littlefork enters the Rainy River. If flood...
...into the things it does. John Meade, tycoon extraordinary, plays with natural resources as he does with the little country lass's heart--he is frank in his admission that his work is swindle by business technique, and he scorns to replant forests he devastates. When he shifts from lumber to wheat, he runs against a dust storm, the governor of the state who reminds him of his responsibility for the storm, and a farm movement led by the girl he has jilted. He is shot by a dispossessed farmer,--but not killed; he repents, and will, of course, live...
...Northwest, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners was scrambling for members everywhere from lumber camps to furniture factories. Out to enlist every Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. employe, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers adopted a system of Class B memberships for non-members of its craft. Machinists, streetcar and other craft unions were spreading out on the same lines, working up to a first-rate Federation family quarrel. The president of C. I. O.'s United Electrical & Radio Workers, also out to organize Westinghouse, cheerfully noted that to achieve its aim his A. F. of L. rival would have...
...rights are conceded by the company, which opposes most stiffly the question of union recognition. Negotiations on this issue await only the withdrawal from the employee delegation of an agent of the Detroit United Autoniobile Workers. It is the extraordinarily aggressive tactics of the C.I.O. agitators swarming in the lumber, pulp and mining districts of Ontario that anger the people and Premier Hepburn, who on his record might favor peaceful unionization. The vehemence of the Canadian opposition is intensified by another factor which the C.I.O. failed to appreciate-national pride. However hostile Ontario is to unionization as such, the introduction...
Died. Frederick Louis Maytag, 79, world's greatest washing-machine maker, father of Maytag Co.'s President Elmer Henry and onetime President Lewis Bergman; in Los Angeles. An Illinois-born farm boy, he first sold farm tools, lumber and threshing machines, lost $100,000 in railroading. $300,000 in motormaking and $1,000,000 in Maytag Co. before he began making his fortune...