After many months of work Bradley wrote a very good report full of details about the logging business. He told the commissioners about the many things that made life so hard for the loggers. Most importantly, he said that all of the woods workers were badly underpaid. He said that wages should be raised. He described how the companies protected their interests at the expense of the workers. The companies set the prices and determined how much money was given to the contractors. The companies made the contractors buy all their supplies from the company stores. The companies also got to change the amount of wood they might require in any given year. Here is how Bradley described this system in his report:

From the Company's standpoint this system is an excellent one. It gives them complete control over all operations and costs without immediate responsibility. It enables them to dictate the prices of wood to the cutter, and of wages, meals, and supplies of all kinds. The daily procedure in all operations is in their hands. There is...ample opportunity to cut costs in all directions to a minimum.¹¹

Bradley talked about how the hard work affected the men's health. Many men were badly hurt working in the woods. They needed money so much that they often worked themselves too hard. Some of these men were never able to work again.

Bradley compared the loggers with the men who worked in the mills where the newsprint was produced. Those men made 30 cents an hour. They worked an eight hour day. Their daily wage came to $2.40. For 26 days they made $62.40. A logger made only $20.25 in 26 days. It is true that the mill workers had to pay for their own food and housing, but there is still a big difference. Bradley worked out that the loggers were making only making 11 cents an hour. And, of course, in many ways the loggers had a much more difficult job.

Bradley asked the government to make many changes. He said that the woods camps should have standards. Regular government inspections should help to make sure that living conditions were better. He said that scalers should be trained so they would be more fair. Bradley also said that an average workman needed at least fifty dollars a month to support himself and his family. Clearly, earning fifty dollars a month in the logging woods of the 1930s was next to impossible.