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Retail Lumber Yard Office Man, 25 to 40 years old, who can operate a Burroughs Bookkeeping Machine. Experienced in all departments of a retail lumber yard. Must know how to meet trade, grades of lumber, .credit, lumber markets, hardware, paint and roofing sales. Non-drinker, college graduate and churchman preferred-any church. Married or single. Prepared to live in a 2 yard town in Northern California and become a part of it permanently. Good town. Salary $150.00 a month to start. Junior partnership eventually. Do not answer unless you qualify in every respe'ct. Job is waiting.

Box C-533, care California Lumber Mer'chant.

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Used Orton Enclless Bed Single Surfa,cer. Round Head, Dotrble Belted, 31xl2. Direct Drive, New Model.

. A. W. Adams, 747 Warehouse Street, Los Angeles Telephone TRinity 2586

Brief of Lumber Industry Declares Freight Rates Already Excessive

Washington, D. C., Jan. 2.-Declaring that the freight charges proposed by the carriers in their petition for authority to in,crease rates are not only "not justified in law, but not justified by the application of any sound principles of economics", the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, through its counsel, has presented in behalf of all groups of the lumber and timber products manufacturing industries a comprehensive argument against the carriers' application in a brief filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission today. J. V. Norman, R. C. Fulbright and John C. White have acted as counsel for the industry in this freight rate case before the Interstate Commerce Commission.

Pointing out that the railroads themselves had frankly stated the need on their part for additional revenue to be the sole basis of the proposed increases, the brief declares that "no matter how great the need of the carriers for more money may be, they,cannot get it from the lumber industry because the lumber industry hasn't it to give."

Lumber Prices Fall 45 Per Cent

It is shown that the total gross value of lumber production declined from approximately a billion dollars in 1929 to less than 160 million in 1933. Employment in March, 1933 was only about one-fifth of the average of 1923-25. More than 200,000 workers were without employment. Lumber prices in De,cember, 1932, were only 55 per cent of 1926 prices.

It is shorvn that under present freight rates lumber ton-

Lumber And Millwork Executive

will consider position requiring executive ability. Experience in all phases of Lumber, Sash, Door and Millwork business in both Soft and Hardwood business. Many years experience in quantity survey of plans, cost accounting, auditing, etc. Single, will go anywhere. Can furnish excellent references. Will appreciate interview. Address Box C-532, care California Lumber Merchant.

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Los Angeles sale. Address chant.

and for nage has fallen from 115,618,000 tons, or 9 per cent of the total tonnage handled by the carriers in 1923, to 33,164,000 'tons, or 4.7 per cent of the total in 1933, and that any increase can but further reduce the traffic. "More actual revenue results", states the brief, "will be obtained by cooperating with the administration and the lumber industry in the program to revive the construction industry than from a three-cent advance."

Freight Costs Almost Half Production Costs

The testimony of Wilson Comptbn, manager of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, is quoted to show that while in 1928 the proportion of average freight charges to f.o.b. mill prices was 33.2 per cent, they rose to 46.0 per cent by 1933, and "therefore both present and protr'rosed rates are unreasonably high be'cause greater than the value of the 5e1yiqs"-2nd this despite the fact that tlte cost of rendering the transportation service "is less than rvhen present lumber rates were established as just and reasonable."

The brief states further that "proposed increases cannot be permitted under existing law", and that "in no event can increase in present rates on forest products be lawfully made when l1o corresponding increase is made in rates on so-called substitute commodities with whi,ch lumber conrpetes."

"At a time," declares the brief, "when the basic industries are struggling to recover from the worst industrial depression the country has known, at least in a generation, a proposal such as this, to in'crease transportation charges which were not reduced during the deprEssion, is little short of a proposal to prevent recovery."

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Another of the new 1935 window displays, Irtade in twelve britliant colors, size 42 inches high by 25 inches wide, on two plartes, with space f or imprint, die cut and packed in individual cartons, for nrailing or shippirrg, u hich is heirtg rrrade available for 1935 use to help errable dealers in paint, hardware, seeds, lunrl>er, and building nraterials to take advantage of their opportunity uuder the Natiolal Housiug Act. Thesc displays are beirtg sol<l ou a cotrperative price basis, interrded to cover ouly cost and handling by the National Clean LIp and Paint Up Campaigrr Bureau,220l New York Avenue, N. W., Washington, D. C., fronr which a colored descriptive circular and price list may be obtained upon request.