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“The lumber industry of northern New York: a geographical examination of its history and technology.” ( Syracuse University; ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1963. 6405650). Fox, William Freeman. A history of the lumber industry in the state of New York (US Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Forestry, 1902) online
Wood warping costs the wood industry in the U.S. millions of dollars per year. [citation needed] Straight wood boards that leave a cutting facility sometimes arrive at the store yard warped. Although wood warping has been studied for years, the warping control model for manufacturing composite wood hasn't been updated for about 40 years.
The 1935 Pacific Northwest lumber strike was an industry-wide labor strike organized by the Northwest Council of Sawmill and Timber Workers Union (STWU). The strike lasted for more than three and a half months and paralyzed much of the lumber industry in Northern California , Oregon and Washington state .
The Lumber Workers' Industrial Union (LWIU) was a labor union in the United States and Canada which existed between 1917 and 1924. It organised workers in the timber industry and was affiliated with the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
1952 Westcoast lumber strike: 1952 West Coast of the United States: 44,000-60,000 [76] [77] 1945 Pacific Northwest lumber strike: 1945 Pacific Northwest: 44,000 [7] 1955 Westinghouse electric strike: 1955 44,000 November 1967 General Motors strike [78] 1967 Pontiac, Michigan: 43,000 [1] 1971 International Harvester strike: 1971 nationwide 41,000
In just one year, the price of lumber has increased a whopping 377%. A boom in home renovations, combined with an increase in disposable income stemming from the coronavirus pandemic, caused ...
"Demand for lumber was high, which pushed prices up. Everyone in the industry made a lot of money." Because manufacturers were getting such good returns for their lumber, they produced a lot, he said.
As an industrial union—as opposed to a craft union—the IWW sought to organize all workers in the area's lumber industry, which would include both the mill workers and the lumberjacks. [4] Lumberjacks in northern Minnesota worked in poor conditions and during their employment lived in company-owned bunkhouses on logging camps. [13]