timber workers

By Ralph Chaplin - 1919

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• Introduction to the 1973 Edition
• Part 1 - A Tongue of Flame
• Part 2 - Lumber: A Basic Industry
• Part 3 - The Human Element "The Timber Beast"
• Part 4 - Why the Loggers Organized
• Part 5 - The Eight Hour Day and "Treason"
• Part 6 - Autocracy vs. Unionism
• Part 7 - Sinister Centralia
• Part 8 - Pioneers of Unionism
• Part 9 - The 1918 Raid
• Part 10 - The Conspiracy Develops
• Part 11 - Failure and Desperation
• Part 12 - Shadows Cast Before
• Part 13 - The Plot Leaks Out
• Part 14 - The Scorpion's Sting
• Part 15 - Wesley Everest
• Part 16 - The Night of Horrors
• Part 17 - Lynching: an American Institution
• Part 18 - Hypocrisy and Terror
• Part 19 - A Labor Movement on Trial
• Part 20 - The Two Raids
• Part 21 - Why Were the Shots Fired?
• Part 22 - The Lumber Trust Wins the Jury

By Walker C. Smith - IWW, 1917

This book is dedicated to those loyal soldiers of the great class war who were murdered on the steamer Verona at Everett, Washington, in the struggle for free speech and free assembly and the right to organize:

FELIX BARAN,
HUGO GERLOT,
GUSTAV JOHNSON,
JOHN LOONEY,
ABRAHAM RABINOWITZ,
and those unknown martyrs whose bodies were swept out to unmarked ocean graves on Sunday, November Fifth, 1916.

Preface

By C. E. PAYNE.

In ten minutes of seething, roaring hell at the Everett dock on the afternoon of Sunday, November 5, 1916, there was more of the age-old superstition regarding the identity of interests between capital and labor torn from the minds of the working people of the Pacific Northwest than could have been cleared away by a thousand lecturers in a year. It is with regret that we view the untimely passing of the seven or more Fellow Workers who were foully murdered on that fateful day, but if the working class of the world can view beyond their mangled forms the hideous brutality that was the cause of their deaths, they will not have died in vain.

This book is published with the hope that the tragedy at Everett may serve to set before the working class so clear a view of capitalism in all its ruthless greed that another such affair will be impossible.

• Chapter 1 - The Lumber Kingdom
• Chapter 2 - Class War Skirmishes
• Chapter 3 - A Reign of Terror
• Chapter 4 - Bloody Sunday
• Chapter 5 - Behind Prison Bars
• Chapter 6 - The Prosecution
• Chapter 7 - The Defense
• Chapter 8 - Pleadings and the Verdict
• Chapter 9 - Solidarity Scores a Success
• Chapter 10 - The Bankruptcy of "Law and Order"

Voice of the People was the new name of the Lumberjack the Wobbly Weekly covering New Orleans and the surrounding area.

The Lumberjack was founded in January 1913 in the midst of a protracted labor strike by the Brotherhood of Timber Workers (B.T.W.) in Merryville, Louisiana. Published by the Southern District of the National Industrial Union of Forest and Lumber Workers, the weekly paper was edited by Covington Hall (1871-1952), a member of the radical wing of the Socialist Party in New Orleans.