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In 1937, members of the Sawmill & Timber Workers Union disaffiliated with the United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners of America and formed the International Woodworkers of America. They chose to affiliate with the emerging Committee of Industrial Organizations. The logging industry was changing and logging trucks were beginning to be the new norm. Based on the craft structure of AFL unions, the Teamsters and AFL leadership asserted that the Teamsters should have these driving jobs. The "Timber Worker" the official newspaper of the Sawmill & Timber Workers disagreed.

The CIO, which advocated industrial unionism was more in line with these lumber workers thinking. Many of them were ex-wobblies after all. Dave Beck was a ruthless Teamster boss. He was an arch nemesis of the ILWU's Harry Bridges and preached top down business unionism. At this point in his life, Beck was the West Coast organizer for the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. The CIO believed workers should choose their own unions. Dave Beck & the AFL officialdom believed in imposing it along craft lines.

This flyer is most likely from 1937 from California, Oregon or Washington. This same year, the American Federation of Labor assessed each of it's members dues $1.00 to help fight the industrial organizing efforts of the CIO.

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