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Show FOOD IS WANTONLY WASTED BY I. W. W. Members of Organization in Washing-Lumber Washing-Lumber Camps Defy Saving Rules, McCready Says. I ' fir Sabotage that, like a two-edged ,word, cuts keenly and deep both ways, iSicinr practiced by members of the I. W. V. in lumber camp organizations all through Washington, according to C. W. McCready, a lumberman of Marcus, Mar-cus, Wash., who brings word that I. W. W. "red'' hordes are rapidly becoming be-coming an open menace to industrialism industrial-ism throughout the entire state. ''The method employed," savs Mr. McCready, "is not only a hard blow to lumbermen of Washington, but hits the food and fuel administration with equal deadliness. The followers of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn not only decline de-cline to be governed by any of the conservation con-servation rules relating to overeating, but they destroy all the food they are unable to consume. Reports of this nature come daily from the lumber camps where the men are employed. It looks very much like wanton destruction de-struction and open defiance of the federal fed-eral government. Bread left on the camp tables after a meal is soaked with any liquid that happens to be at hand to render it useless. Sugar is treated in the same manner, and butter is not immune from attack." Mr. McCready does not view the future optimistically, especially as concerns con-cerns the western states. He expresses the opinion that Washington will be a seething caldron. of strife, strike and dissension before the summer is far advanced, ad-vanced, unless immediate steps are taken to check the rebellious onrush of the I. W. W. reds. He assumes that conditions in all western states are similar to those in Washington, and cannot improve unless through federal intervention. Camp working conditions have been greatly improved in the past year, Mr. McCready avers, but even with these p improvements and the granting of an i$ eight-hour day the "reds" are dis-"iiisfied dis-"iiisfied and "disgruntled. They have mae a demand for free bedding, and have planned to make a demonstration to force this demand May 1. Resistance Resist-ance on the part of employers is likely to result in a call for a general strike in all Washington lumber camps. Mr. McCready is on his way to Los Angeles for a brief vacation. |