Lumberjack

A 1966 booklet by the former editor of "Lumberjack News" and "Redwood Ripsaw" compiling his various editorials and op-eds from these publications, along with favored works by other authors. A heavily pro-union, pro-socialism work from the perspective of a lumberman of the early twentieth century.

Contributors: Ralph Chaplin, Joe Hill, Dublin Dan, T-Bone Slim, John Brill, Eugene V. Debs, Hobart McKean, Frederick Douglass, Smedley D. Butler, Ernie Crook, H. I. Phillips, Thomas Scribner / Thomas J. Scribner

Other notables: Baraga, I.W.W. / IWW / International Workers of the World, Grace Scribner, Weyerhaueser Timber Company, Wobblies, Lumbermans Magazine, Vanguard, Shingle Weavers, William Shears / Scissor Bill, Big Bill Haywood, criminal syndicalism, socialism / socialist, Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen / 4-L, Spruce Division, Cook County Jail, The Red Feast, The Commonwealth of Toil, Portland County Jail, Fifty Thousand Lumberjacks, The Portland Revolution, The Popular Wobbly, They go wild simply wild over me, Free Tom Mooney, Woodrow Wilson, CIO / C.I.O., communism / communists, little red song book, Dump the bosses off your back, Jungle Warfare, Gee Whiz Two, Viet Cong, Bigfoot Wallace, Great Depression, The Fast Rigs I've Seen, sawmill carriage, International Lumber Company, Crookston Lumber Company, Cloquet Lumber Company, Shevlin-Hixon Company, Seattle Cedar Lumber Company, Great Southern Lumber Company, J. J. White Lumber Company, Long Bell Lumber Company, John Foster Dulles, Foster Doodle Dandy, Yankee Doodle Dandy, The American Standard of Living, Council Meeting in Barbaria, New South Revue, The Jack Ash Society, John Birch Society, Grand Demoniac Sons of Birchers, G.D.S.C.B. / GDSCB, The Clean Bomb, Lumberjack Science Fiction, Surplus and Shortages, The Communist Era, Bolshevik Revolution, National Lumber Workers Union, TUUL / T.U.U.L., Earl Browder, Joseph Stalin, Potlatch Lumber Company, Women of Washington, Central Labor Council, Verona Affair, Benny Scribner, Unemployed Workers of America, Sierra Pond Monkey
Creator: Tom Scribner
Date: 1966
Type: BOOKLET; ARTICLE; ILLUSTRATION
Coverage:
  • Santa Cruz
  • Lumber industry
  • Business
  • Politics
  • 1960s
  • Labor
  • Unions
  • 1950s
  • 1940s
  • 1930s
  • 1920s
  • 1910s
  • 1900s
  • World War II
  • World War 2
  • WWII
  • WW2
  • World War I
  • World War 1
  • WW1
  • WWI
  • Cold War
  • War
  • Vietnam War
  • Poetry
  • Poets
  • Music
  • Housing
  • Literature
  • Michigan
  • Davenport
  • Fort Seward
  • Humboldt County
  • Eureka
  • Arcata
  • Hawaii
  • Science fiction
Identifier: MS-SANTA CRUZ-LUMBERING-5

Citation

Scribner, Tom. “Lumberjack.” 1966. SCPL Local History. https://history.santacruzpl.org/omeka/items/show/140640. Accessed 16 Jan. 2026.