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The Desert of Wheat

CHAPTER IV
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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.


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