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<blockquote data-quote="Dave" data-source="post: 1396606" data-attributes="member: 498"><p>Read up on the Centralia massacre. A battle between the unions and WW1 veterans on November 11, 1919. It is pretty amazing the people were treated and the lack of basic civil rights. My grandpa told me they treated the pigs better than they treated the men in those 1910-1940 logging camps. One big outfit here had a reputation that they killed a man a day. Sign over their hiring office said, "if you can't fly don't light here." Someone got killed they just drug him off out of the way and kept working to quitting time. Same thing if a man got hurt. If you got hurt bad you had better be able to survive on your own until quitting time. One of my old neighbors broke his arm working for that outfit. Compound fracture. He had two choices, wait 6 hours to quitting time or walk 6 miles out of the woods. He said it was a long walk. One old boy I worked with was raised in a logging camp up on the Olympic Peninsula. He said the school house was on the woods end of camp. When the speeder came down at the end of the day with the crew the last car would carry the dead and injured. The school boys would make bets on how many men would be on that last car. He said nobody ever bet zero because that was a losing number. It was rare to have nobody killed or injured.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave, post: 1396606, member: 498"] Read up on the Centralia massacre. A battle between the unions and WW1 veterans on November 11, 1919. It is pretty amazing the people were treated and the lack of basic civil rights. My grandpa told me they treated the pigs better than they treated the men in those 1910-1940 logging camps. One big outfit here had a reputation that they killed a man a day. Sign over their hiring office said, "if you can't fly don't light here." Someone got killed they just drug him off out of the way and kept working to quitting time. Same thing if a man got hurt. If you got hurt bad you had better be able to survive on your own until quitting time. One of my old neighbors broke his arm working for that outfit. Compound fracture. He had two choices, wait 6 hours to quitting time or walk 6 miles out of the woods. He said it was a long walk. One old boy I worked with was raised in a logging camp up on the Olympic Peninsula. He said the school house was on the woods end of camp. When the speeder came down at the end of the day with the crew the last car would carry the dead and injured. The school boys would make bets on how many men would be on that last car. He said nobody ever bet zero because that was a losing number. It was rare to have nobody killed or injured. [/QUOTE]
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