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Sawmill work should appeal to one who is interested in factory work; who desires employment which keeps him more or less in the open; and Your disability is who prefers to live in a settled community. It offers a clean, healthful your opportunity. You may never occupation for all degrees of skill, hence it affords opportunity for every

have made the

most of yourself industrious man.

before. You ought to be thinking very much about

making the most

WAGES.

The wages paid in the lumber industry vary with the region in which of yourself now. the work is performed and local wage scales, but the compensation is through the Fed- as great as in other industries requiring an equal amount of skill.

Uncle Sam,

eral Board, will

help you to make

your disability

lead to an educa

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up before you

CLASSIFICATION OF LABOR IN THE LUMBER INDUSTRY.

Logging work as a rule requires a man of robust constitution who can opportunities of stand up under hard physical labor performed in the open in all kinds which you never dreamed in the of weather. Loggers must as a rule be skilled in the use of ax, crosscut saw, and like tools, or be competent teamsters, although considerable unskilled labor is employed in each camp.

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Sawmill employees should in most instances be robust. They are not as a rule exposed to inclement weather to the same degree as loggers. A high degree of mechanical skill is required of saw filers, sawyers, mechanics, and persons filling like places, but the greater part of the sawmill work does not demand mechanical skill of even average degree and consequently the work can be satisfactorily performed by labor which has had but little previous experience. In most positions a man who is of average intelligence and has the ability to quickly adapt himself to new lines of work will prove successful.

Woods work as a rule does not appeal to the city born and bred man, because it takes him from settled communities. On the other hand, both logging and sawmill work often appeal to the country-reared man because it keeps him out in the open.

The scarcity of labor during the last year has necessitated the employment of many laborers who would not have been acceptable in former You know it times. Women are now filling many places in the industry to which training that they were not formerly considered eligible. They are now driving helped you to teams on logging jobs, felling timber, laying railroad steel, surfacing It will count with railroad track, and doing other work in the woods, as well as filting very you if you take advantage of the satisfactorily a large number of places in sawmills, Lox factories, and opportunity Uncle Sam is mak- other woodworking establishments which were formerly filled excluing for you. You sively by men.

beat the Hun.

never understood

what realtraining meant until you

There is promise of a readjustment of labor conditions in the indusjoined the Army, try, and it is certain that the discovery of the worth of female labor in You now under- the industry will have a marked effect on labor conditions. The ing means. Take entrance of female workers will mean that many forms of the lighter

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labor formerly performed by physically deficient males will be given over to women, and it is possible that this may have a marked bearing on the possibility of employing wounded soldiers for this purpose. Few soldiers will be advised to enter the lumber industry unless they were formerly engaged in a similar line of work.

The following tabulation shows in a very general way the minimum range of the technical and mechanical qualifications required for certain lines of logging and sawmill work. Experienced men with greater disabilities than those mentioned may prove efficient, but it is not believed that inexperienced men who can not meet the requirements would prove satisfactory in the industry.