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SAWMILL – DAY |
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| A steam engine RUMBLES out of the mill with a
train full of cut lumber. COLONEL DISQUE and
COMPANY are riding in a small crew car pulled
behind the engine.
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CREW CAR – SAME |
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| DISQUE and CARLETON PARKER are seated across from
each other. |
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| I thought radical propaganda had inspired the
reports on these conditions.
But now, having seen things I
can say not only are they
true, they defy exaggeration. |
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| I told you it was the conditions, and not Wobbly
ideology, that was causing the
unrest in the timber industry. |
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| How is it that in the twentieth century American
workmen have to live like
this? |
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| I admire the tough, independent lumber operators,
I really do. But I detest
their fixed attitude toward
their workers, which resists
even the slightest demand for
improvement in how they work
and live. |
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| Without improvement, and soon, peaceful labor
relations will be all but
impossible. So, too, will an
increase in the production of
spruce. |
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| Then someone must put an end to these wretched
conditions. Clearly the lumber
barons will not. |
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| I
guess that someone is me. |
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| You almost seem excited by the prospect. |
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| There’s just this certain joy of the woods
which the office man never
knows. I feel like a field
campaigner again, freed from
the restraints of desk work. |
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| Yes, I think I can make a difference here— Get
out the spruce. Help win the
war. |
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The train THUNDERS out across a scenic trestle as
it heads down into the valley.
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