Word: timbermen
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...coal miners it is Eight Hour Day. It has been a coal fields holiday ever since 1898 when the shorter day was finally won. This year because April 1 fell on Sunday, no coal miners worked Monday. But when the happy cutters, loaders, drillers, bonders, spraggers, snappers, trappers, trimmers, timbermen, bottom-cagers, slate-pickers and all the rest went back to the mines on Tuesday, it was to work not eight hours but seven. For last week United Mine Workers of America signed an agreement with most of the Appalachian operators providing for a seven-hour day, a five...
...camp, with its four luxurious cabins costing $20,000, had been built without their permission, that no lease had been sought or signed. The Rapidan Marine force of 120 men under Major Earl Long had also squatted on their property for a year before bothering about a lease.* When timbermen tried to go on their own lands, they were seized by the officious Marine guards of the camp and escorted off by the seat of the pants. The lumber company had to pay taxes increased by improvements on their property which they could not even get to. Altogether the Government...