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Document: "Strike of Timber Workers Ends" The Cottage Grove Sentinel, 3 October 1935 This city's two-month-old timber workers' strike came to an end Wednesday night when union members of the J. H. Chambers & Son employees voted 45 to 4 to accept a proposal made to them that day by the company. The other two mills affected by the strike, W. A. Woodard Lumber company and Bohemia Lumber company, had already resumed operation. The agreement under when the Chambers men will return to work is similar to that effective at the Bohemia Lumber company plant. That agreement was publish a week ago. On Monday night the Chambers employees had voted down a proposal which had been presented them, and during the two following days some slight differences were ironed out. The payroll loss during the two months of the walkout has been estimated to have been over $100,000. This is Collage Grove's first experience with a strike and the community, employers and employees never be conditions to bring on another. During the entire strike calm union leaders kept results that there was no violence of any kind and no damage to property. Employers and strikers remained on fairly good terms while they were at outs and there was little radical talk due to the fact that most of the timber and mill workers are longtime residents here many of them with property interests in the community. and employees participated."
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