Every laborer or employee of any sawmill or planing mill and every laborer or employee of any person, firm, or corporation engaged in the getting, cutting, rafting, shipping, hauling, or manufacturing of any kind of timber, lumber, or crossties, or in preparing timber, lumber, or crossties for shipping, shall have a lien for his wages on any timber, lumber, or crossties for all debts or wages due him in the getting, cutting, rafting, shipping, hauling, or manufacturing of said timber, lumber, or crossties.