Rules for Marking Lumber

Provisions for the Markins of Lumber and Timber Products Approved by the Lumber Code Authority ond Proposed to the Adminstration Pursuant to the Requirements ofArticle XVI of the Lumber and Timber Products Code

Pursuant to Article XVI, paragraph (b) and (c) of the Code of Fair Competition for the Lumber and Timber Products Industries, approved by the President, August 19,1933, the applicant industries respectfully submit to the President the following "provisions, including proposed rules and regulations, necessary to effectuate the requirements of the Article," namely, "to undertake to adopt, apply and enforce branding or marking of lumber and timber products." The provisions of Article XVI, paragraph (b), with respect to the inclusion of a certificate of the originating shipper in all shipments, except water-borne, showing the quantity, grade and species thereof, have already been made efiective in Section 6 (f) of the Rules of Fair Trade Practice, Schedule B of the Lumber Code. The applicant industries respectfully recommend that when approved by the President, these provisions, rules and regulations be designated Section -and made a part of Schedule B-Rules of Fair Trade Practice for the Lumber and Timber Products Industries, and become effective 30 days thereafter.

Section-Marking of Lumber and Timber

(a) All lumber and timber products, except those enumerated in paragraph (b) hereof, but including doors, sold and shipped for use within the continental United States shall hereafter be branded or marked (except that unavoidable mechanical skips may be allowed) by the manufacturer or producer thd:reof, or by his agent, with an association grade-mark and trade-mark as provided in paragraph (c) hereof, which marks shall plainly indicate: (1) species, as provided in paragraph (d) hereot; (2) standard grade, as provided in paragraph (e) hereof; (3) whether of standard or sub-standard dimensions, as provided in paragraph (f) hereof; (4) wirether 'seasoned or unseaboned, as provided in paragraph (g) hereof; and no such brands or marks shall be obliterated or removed, except as may be required after official association reinspection and then only by the official association inspector. These marks shall be placed on each piece shipped, except where the Division permits the marking of bundles in certain items, in which case the marks shall be applied to each bundle.

(b) Factory and shop lumber are specifically excepted from the provisions of this Section; railroad and car material, when accompanied by an association certificate of inspection or when inspected by a railroad inspector, is likewise excepted. Each Division shall have the authority to prescribe and enforce the marking of all green lumber to indicate standard grade; failing which no green lumber in that Division shall be so marked.

(c) The term "association grade-marks and trade-marks" as used in paragraph (a) of this Section shall be construed to include marks or symbols denoting: l.-Nameof lumber manufacturers' association under whose published rules the species is manufactured, graded, sold and shipped.

2.-Name of standard grade under said manufacturers' association rules, or other recognized grade approved by the Division, including the grade quality and such additional characteristics of the grade as may be required.

3.-Manufacturers' name or number or trade-mark, to identify the mill or company from which the shipment is made.

4.-Names of species, as officially adopted for that purpose by the lumber manufacturers' association under whose rules the species is manufactured, graded, sold and shipped.

5.-Seasoning, conforming to the seasoning standards adopted or recognized by the manufacturers' association under whose rules the lumber is manufactured, graded, sold and shipped.

6.-Standard dimensions, except wh en specifically marked "sub-standard size."

7.-Compliance with all provisions of the National Industrial Recovery Act and of the Lumber Code Authority.

(d) For the purpose of compliance with the provisions of paragraph (a) sub-item (1) of this section, the symbols to be branded or marked on each piece (or each bundle) of lumber and timber to denote its species shall consist of the symbols or marks officially adopted by the lumber manufacturers' association under whose rules the species is manufactured, graded, sold and shipped, provided that said marks shall be such as to enable the consuming public to readily identify the species. The species mark may be omitted in the discretion of any manufacturers in grades which admit mixed species.

(e) For the purpose of compliance with the provisions of paragraph (a) sub-item (2) of this section, the symbols to be branded or marked on each piece (or each bundle) of lumber and timber to denote its grade shall consist of the symbols or marks officially adopted and published for the grade in question by the lumber manufacturers' association under whose rules'the species is manufactured, graded, sold and shipped, and no mark shall be used indicating any grade which grade is not described in the published grading rules applying thereto, or specifically approved by the manufacturers' association concerned. No grade-mark shall be placed on lumber of mixed grades, other than the two highest recognized grades for the species in question. When lumber is sold and shipped on a non-standard specification which cannot be described by a grade-name, it shall be marked "non-standard".

(f) For the purpose of compliance with the provisions of paragraph (a) sub-item (3) of this section, standard dimensions shall be construed to mean rough and/ot finished sizes, thicknesses andfor widths equal to or greater than the corresponding sizes for the product in question, prescribed in the American Lumber Standards for softwood lumber and timber, published by the U. S. Bureau of Standards in the current edition of Simplified Practice Recommendations R-16, or for hardwood lumber published by the Central Committee on Lumber Standards, July 1, 1926, and in the current rules of hardwood manufacturers' associations covering the species and items in question. All lumber and timber products marked with an association trade mark shall be construed to be "standard size" as described in this paragraph; all lumber and timber products of dimensions smaller than these shall be considered "substandard size" and be so marked.

(S) I" accordance with the provisions of paragraph (a) sub-item (4) of this section, seasoned lumber and timber products shall be construed to mean lumber and timber products which conform to the seaso'ning standards adopted or recognized by the manufacturers' association under whose rules the lumber is manufactured, graded, sold and shipped. All such lumber and timber products shall be considered "seasoned" and be so marked. All lumber and timber products not conforming to said seasoning standards shall be considered "unseasoned" and be so marked, ifit is so prescribed by the Division.

(h) The products of persons who have presented acceptable evidence to the designated agency of a Division, showing that their products or facilities make grade-marking impractical and that no unfair competition will result from their exemption from these rules and regulations, and who are determined by the said agency to be persons entitled to this relief, may, with the approval of the Lumber Code Authority, be sold and shipped without regard to the requirements of this section.

(i) The Lumber Code Authority shall promulgate rules and regulations necessary to secure effective enforcement and assure equitable application of the provisions of this section; the Divisions shall, with the approval of the Authoritv, promulgate similar rules and regulations.

Congratulations

There is rejoicing in the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Mulligan, San Francisco, over the arrival of a son on March 1.

Mr. Mulligan is president ofW. J. Mulligan & Co., wholesale lumber dealers.

Supply Bohemian Club Materials

Hardwood flooring for the floors of the new building of the famous San Francisco Bohemian Club, now under construction, is being supplied through J. E. Higgins Lumber Company, San Francisco.

Smith Lumber Company, San Francisco, is supplying the lumber, and Lannon Bros. Manufacturing Company, Oakland, is furnishing the millwork.