Word: lumbering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...LUMBER-Louis Colman-Little, Brown...
Jimmie's father was a Northwest lumberman, his mother a slut. When his father was killed Jimmie did not stay home long. He bummed around the lumber country, became a millman, had a good time, made good wages. When he met Pearl he meant to seduce her; instead he proposed. They were settled in their own house and had two children when the trouble began...
...Doctrinaire Upton Sinclair could get as much feeling of helpless human tragedy into his propaganda novels as Louis Colman gets into Lumber, Socialists...
Capitalists alike would take more stock in Upton Sinclair. Lumber is not recognizably propaganda, but it is a story of Labor, and if you can read it without being moved, you deserve to have the Wobblies...
...Author. Like his hero, Louis Colman has been a millman (he has hell down multifarious jobs in a lumbermill). Though never an I. W. W.. he has been out on many a lumber strike. Now, at 26, he has finished with sawmills, lives in Manhattan, translates from the French: Lumber is his first novel...