The police had to turn the armouries into prison camps. One Sunday, the IWA got people to come in and visit, to bring in dinners to them. What they brought in was bags of nothing. It was just to put on a show.

They had another stunt up in Badger that they pulled off. They threw a handful of nickles around a garbage container and the youngsters went after the money. They said they were eating the garbage. They were a smart group.

They had the mounties in here. Sure, they couldn't do anything. Joey Smallwood took the bull by the horns and sent people in. If they didn't behave themselves, he'd decertify them, and kick them out altogether. As far as Smallwood was concerned, there wasn't room enough in Newfoundland for him and Landon Ladd.

If the IWA had come in here in a peaceful way and talked to us people, the union leaders, it would have been okay. If they were going to do this peacefully.

They should have kept clear of the company and the government. They should have gotten the goodwill of the men first, to get a united front. With all the workers of the Corner Brook mill, with all the workers of the A.N.D. Company mill, with the central and the west covered, the companies would have had no choice but do something.

There would have been a big income in union dues for the IWA.

I think they would have done well. The IWA could have worked with the officers of the Loggers Association. However, they didn't. It was "the hell with you" and "the hell with you." They brought in their own group and picked up some people that they thought would be of a great benefit to them, but they were no good to them.

There was a loss of life over this. There was a truck lost over on a river, and there was a man killed in Badger. They had a man taken up, but he wasn't convicted. It went to court but it was dismissed.

The government sent police to central Newfoundland to handle the labour unrest. On a picket line at Badger, Constable William Moss of the Newfoundland Constabulary was injured. He died two days later. To end the labour strife, Premier Smallwood outlawed the IWA and set up another union for the loggers.