Click here for the Home Page Click here for the Home Page Click here for the Home Page Click here for the Home Page Click here for the Home Page Click here for the Home Page Click here for the Home Page Click here for the Home Page Click here for the Home Page Click here for the Home Page Click here for the Home Page Click here for the Home Page Click here for the Home Page

Document Details


Title: Reminiscences of Gaylord M. Upington and Lafayette Stephens
RLIN number: NXCP88-A9
Document type: Oral history
Accessibility: Free Only
Repository: Columbia University. Oral History Research Office
Collection: Weyerhaeuser Timber Company Project
Description: UPINGTON: logging experience: compassman and cruiser, trespassing; early work in Washington State, building the Vail line; Weyerhaeuser Logged-Off Land Company; rumored criticisms of Weyerhaeuser Timber Company. STEPHENS: Personal background; logging camp conditions; Industrial Workers of the World; logging operations: power saw, falling, limbing, bucking, with soldiers during World War I, mechanization, salaries of logging superintendents, selective logging; sources of government trees; unionization.
Extent: Transcript: 76 leaves
Restrictions: Access: Written permission required from Weyerhaeuser Timber Company. Permission required to cite, quote, and reproduce. Contact repository for information.
Original Language: English
Time span: Not indicated ... to 1955 (Year of interview)
Speaker: Stephens, Lafayette
Speaker gender: Male
Document date: 1955
Interviewer: Nevins, Allan, 1890-1971; Thomas, Norman F.
Topics discussed - ASP terms: Loggers; Logging; Lumber trade; Lumbermen; Lumbermen--Labor unions
Topics discussed - Other terms: Industrial Workers of the World; Stephens, Lafayette; Upington, Gaylord M., 1896-; Weyerhaeuser Timber Company
ASP release: 2005-06
Document code: OHI0020497-17010