gypo logger

  

"Gyppo loggers were originally condemned by the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) as strikebreakers.  

After the founding of a government-sponsored company union, the Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen, weakened the influence of the IWW on the logging industry, 

 attitudes towards gyppos changed, and they came to be seen by the victorious bosses and scabs  

as a normal component of the timber business in a  

less ideologically charged context." 

 

"A gyppo or gypo logger is a logger who runs or works for a small-scale logging operation that is independent from an established sawmill or lumber company.  

The gyppo system is one of two main patterns 

 of historical organization of logging labor.

 in the Pacific Northwest United States, the other being the "company logger" 

'The term "gyppo" is specific to the Pacific Northwest region of the United States and Canada. 

 The word was introduced by the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)  

to disparage strikebreakers and other loggers who thwarted their organizing efforts. 

 The IWW currently uses the term to refer to "Any piece-work system; a job where the worker is paid by the volume they produce, rather than by their time." 

"The gyppo is a man who 'gyps' his fellow workers and finally himself, out of the fruits of all our organized victories in the class war"  

By the early 21st century, gyppo loggers were described as "an endangered species." 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyppo_logger