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 | | The Brotherhood of Timber Workers was an industrial union of sawmill workers in East Texas and western Louisiana organized by Arthur Lee Emerson and Jay Smith in December 1910. |
 | | Emerson and Smith organized the first local of the BTW at Carson, Louisiana, in December 1910; others in East Texas and western Louisiana soon followed, and delegates from these locals met in Alexandria, Louisiana, in June 1911 and formally established the Brotherhood of Timber Workers. |
 | | Additional strikebreakers, protected by gunmen, were imported, and on July 7, 1912, at Graybow, Louisiana, as Emerson prepared to speak to nonunion workers of the Galloway Lumber Company, a ten-minute gun battle, during which an estimated 300 shots were fired, left three men dead, another dying, and over forty wounded. |
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