OUTLOOK BRIGHT
FOR RESUMPTION
LUMBER MILLS
No Union Men Guilty of
Threats or Intimidation
to Be Reemployed
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SEATTLE. July 11— Announce
ment of a 'much more checrfu
outlook" came trcm 50 prominent
Washington and Oregon lumber
manufacturers and loggers after
the Aberdeen conference, as the
lumber strike is drawing near the
end. now In the tenth week.
Everett Is the only major Wash
ington lumber city where opera
tions in some kind have not been
resumed. The situation there is
still tense and business Is paralyzed.
Anacortes Is quiet.
Agreement: Withdrawn
Agreements offered by the Ever
ett operators of sawmills to the
Sawmills' Union have been with
drawn. One leading operator said
the action apparently blights ail
possibility of any immediate agree
ment.
Mills have resumed in Seattle.
Mills are operating elsewhere.
The delegates to the Aberdeen
: conference listed a fi-point plan to
serve as a basis of reemployment
of strikers. The terms, included a
50-cent minimum basic wage for
common labor with a 40-hour week.
'Discrimination" Clause
The 'no discrimination clause"
Was modified by the retention of
the right to refuse work to those
men who are guilty of “assault,
violence, threats or intimidation.”
The latter is said to be the cause
for a break between the operators
and Sawmills' Union at Everett
because there has been violence,
threats and intimidation and all
involved will not be reemployed.
GEORGE GAYNOR IS
ASKED TO WRITE TO
WIFE IN SPANAWAY
A request for George Gaynor to
write to his wife has been receiv
ed by Tiie Empire. Mrs. Gaynor, in
her letter, says her husband came
north aboard the North Star on
May 28. bound for Seward. Mrs.
