Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1909 — LUMBER WORKERS STRIKE [ARTICLE]

LUMBER WORKERS STRIKE

Six Hundred Italians Make a Demand For Better Pay. McCloud. Cal.. June I.—At the conclusion of a meeting here of 600 Italian lumber workers, about 400 of them boarded a train for Bartle, twenty-six miles east, to force the few loggers still at work in the woods to Join In the strike, or at least to quit work. In McCloud the sawmills, planning mill, box factory and machine shops are sijentr Sheriff Howard has sworn in fifty deputies. The men want an increase in wages.