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The Daily Worker
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
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In Port Arthur, Ontario, 600 lumber workers are on strike for nearly four weeks, demanding $5 per double cord of pulpwood or $50 monthly with board, led by the Lumber Workers' Industrial Union, affecting camps operated by T. Falls Co. and others.
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(By a Worker Correspondent)
PORT ARTHUR, Ontario, (By Mail).--Four hundred lumber workers have now been on strike for nearly four weeks. Another two hundred came out last weekend making a total of six hundred in all.
They are led by the Lumber Workers' Industrial Union.
The men are demanding five dollars a double cord of eight foot pulpwood or fifty dollars a month and board. In average timber in some cases cutting is by the stick. Here the demand is four cents an eight foot stick. Demands for sixteen foot pulp are in proportion.
The men are sleeping in old camps in farm houses, and a number of them have been brought to Port Arthur where they are being fed by the union.
The camps involved are operated by the T. Falls Co. of Shebaqua, Shebandowan, Mabella and Rossmere, also two camps operated respectively by Nelson of Shebandowan, and Don Clake at Pigeon River.
The Lumber Workers' Industrial Union of Canada is rapidly spreading the strike to all camps not paying the union scale.
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Port Arthur, Ontario; Shebaqua, Shebandowan, Mabella, Rossmere; Pigeon River
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Four hundred lumber workers on strike for nearly four weeks, joined by two hundred more totaling six hundred, demanding five dollars a double cord of eight foot pulpwood or fifty dollars a month and board, or four cents per eight foot stick, led by Lumber Workers' Industrial Union, sleeping in camps and farm houses, fed by union in Port Arthur, involving camps of T. Falls Co., Nelson, and Don Clake, with strike spreading.