Word: lumbermen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...resignation of President Henry Suzzallo, who, the young men and women told each other, was being dismissed without a hearing from Washington by Governor Roland H. Hartley (TIME, Oct. 18, 1926). As Wartime wage umpire of the National Labor Board, President Suzzallo had sponsored the eight-hour day for lumbermen, a policy irksome to timber-owning Governor Hartley. Technical cause for the rift was a disagreement about educational policy, but President Suzzallo left Washington in a torchlit blaze of personal glory. Last week he was given as distinguished an educational post as the nation affords: the presidency of the Carnegie...
Lumber. House rate: $1.50 per 1,000 ft. Senate rate: free. With pitiful tales of 80,000 lumbermen jobless in the northwest, due to Canadian competition, did Chairman Hawley plead for the House rate. Sensing defeat, he offered to compromise at 75? per 1,000 ft. But the House, in a low-tariff mood, would not compromise, voted (250-to-143) for the Senate's freelisting of lumber...