Reminiscences of Gaylord M. Upington and Lafayette Stephens : oral history, 1955

Biographical Note

Lumbermen, loggers

Scope and Contents

UPINGTON: logging experience: compassman and cruiser, trespassing; early work in Washington State, building the Vail line; Weyerhaeuser Logged-Off Land Company; rumored criticisms of Weyerhaeuser Timber Company. STEPHENS: Personal background; logging camp conditions; Industrial Workers of the World; logging operations: power saw, falling, limbing, bucking, with soldiers during World War I, mechanization, salaries of logging superintendents, selective logging; sources of government trees; unionization

Subjects

• Industrial Workers of the World.
• Interviews.
• Loggers--Interviews.
• Logging.
• Lumbermen--Interviews.
• Lumbermen--Labor unions.
• Lumber trade.
• Nevins, Allan, 1890-1971, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Stephens, Lafayette, interviewee.
• Stephens, Lafayette--Interviews.
• Thomas, Norman F., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Timber.
• Upington, Gaylord M., 1896---Interviews.
• Weyerhaeuser Timber Company.