rks are picketed by individuals who camp out in the forests
and who intimidate and threaten our employees.

"Open threats have been made that our works, our logs, and our
timber will all be burned.

"Sabotage is publicly preached in the meetings, and in the
literature of the organization it is advised and upheld.

"The open boast is made that the lumbering industry, with all other
industry, will be paralyzed by this organization, by the destruction
of property used in industry and by the intimidation of laborers who
are willing to work.

"A real and present danger to the property of my company exists.
Unless protection is given to us it will probably be burned and
destroyed. Our lawful operations cannot be conducted because
laborers who are willing to work are fearful of their lives and are
subject to abuse, threats, and violence. Our camps, when in
operation, are visited by individuals belonging to the said
organization, and the men peaceably engaged in them threatened with
death if they do not cease work. All sorts of injury to property by
the driving of spikes in logs, the destruction of logs, and other
similar acts are encouraged and recommended.

"As I pointed out to the sheriff of our county, the season is a very
dry one and the woods are and will be, unless rain comes, in danger
of disastrous fires. The organization and its members have openly
and repeatedly asserted that they will burn the logs in the woods
and burn the forests of this company and other timber-holders before
they will permit logging operations to continue.

"Many individuals belonging to the organization are camped in the
open in the timbered country, and their very presence is a fire
menace. They are engaged in no business except to interfere with the
industry and to interfere with the logging of this company and
others who engaged in the logging business.

"We have done what we could in a lawful manner to continue our
operations and to protect our employees. We are now helpless, and
place the responsibility for the protection of our property and the
protection of our employees upon the board of county commissioners
and upon the officers of the county."

Next President Riesinberg called upon a young reporter to read
paragraphs of an I.W.W. speech he had heard made to a crowd of three
hundred workme