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...city ways in high-paying jobs in war plants were none too eager to head back to the low pay and hard life of the woods. Those who did go back found a lack of portable sawmills, crawler trucks, etc., although lately the Civilian Production Administration has been handing lumbermen priorities to get them...
...Much of industrial Massachusetts was without transportation because its bus and trolley workers had walked off the job; Governor Maurice J. Tobin seized the bus and trolley lines, in the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The West Coast lumber industry was still stalemated by striking A.F. of L. lumbermen. In New York City, workers in pasteurization plants threatened a strike that would leave the city's 7½ million without milk...
Collier's Reorganization Act, adopted by Congress in 1934 over the fierce opposition of lumbermen and ranchers (who stood to lose valuable leaseholds by it), opened the way. Indians finally had the use of their tribal holdings and the right to extend them. Also each reservation could, by majority vote, incorporate its business affairs under federal charter and secure a constitution...
...their own ways and in their own words the countless explorers, trappers, miners, farmers, pilots and rivermen, millers, lumbermen, hydraulic engineers, artists and cowboys echoed him; these books are a record of their joy and travail...
Wood, used for heat on farms and in scattered rural areas where anyone can get it, is not a general problem, except in thickly populated western Washington, half of which uses wood for fuel. With many lumbermen now working in war plants at higher pay, the area was 200,000 cords short this year. To persuade farmers and amateur woodsmen to make up the difference, the Government offered a subsidy of $2.50 a cord to anyone who would work in the forests. In eastern cities and suburbs, where householders use fireplaces for supplementary heat, wood was scarce and expensive...