N.R.A. Confers Full Self-Gove]n- California Redwood Ass'n Opens ment

on the Lumber lndustry

Washington, March. 17.-The lumber industry was accorded the distinction today of being the first industry group to receive the full measure of industry self-government authorized by the National Recovery Administration. This distinction took the form of an order signed by Gen. Johnson, giving the Lumber Code Authority and its administrative agencies full authorization to handle trade practice and labor complaints "in the first instance." This action is recognition on the part of General Johnson of the efiectiveness of the organization for compliance approved by the Lumber Code Authority at its last meeting here. The plan of organization involves the establishment of a national Trade Complaints Committee of seven members and a national Labor Complaints Committee of not less than four nor more than eight members. Half of the membership oi the Labor Complaints Committee, rePresenting employers, will be named by the Lumber Code Authority. The other half, representing employees, will be named by the Administrator from nominations made by the NRA Labor Advisory Board. The Committee will select an arbiter who will preside and vote whenever the committee is evenly divided on any matter before it.

Under these national committees will be regional committees constituted in a like manner. In the Trade Practice Division a regional committee will be established in each of the administrative agencies of the Lumber Code Authority. Seven regional Labor Complaints Committees will have jurisdiction over geographical areas.

"This extension of authority by the Administrator," declared Carl W. Bahr, Secretary of the Lumber Code Authority, "is not only gratifying because it expedites the handling of complaints, which without such authotization would have to be filed with State Compliance Directors, but because it shows the approval by the Administration of the manner in which self-government, fully representative, has been achieved in the lumber and timber products industries.

"In the exercise of this grant of extended authority the Lumber Code Authority proposes, first, to undertake an intensive campaign of education so that the 27,0AO establishments and half million employees under the jurisdiction of the Lumber and Timber Products Code will be fully advised as to their rights, privileges, and responsibilities. Through this means and through the pressure of opinion within the industry the Authority hopes to prevent violations of the code. Of course, when such measures fail, it will certify cases of flagrant violators to the government enforcement agencies for prosecution."

Moves to New Offices

The California Wholesale Lumber Association moved into new quarters at 806 Merchants Exchange Building, 465 California Street, San Francisco, April 1. S. M. Hauptman is general manager of the Association.

Office at L. A.

R. R. Leishman of the California Redwood Association has returned to Los Angeles following a visit to the Association's offices in San Francisco, and will set up adequate machinery for the California Redwood Association inspection and the issuing of certificates in accordance with the new ruling of the Los Angeles Building and Safety Commissioners. The Los Angeles office will be in the Architects Building, Fifth and Figueroa Streets, with Mr. Leishman in charge.

The provisions of Section 106 of the Building Ordinance of the city of Los Angeles have been construed to require all lumber, including siding and sheathing below the level of the first sub-floor, to be pressure treated with creosote, except that:

Ail exposed siding below the level of the first floor may, in lieu of being pressure creosoted, be Clear All Heart Redwood as graded by the California Redwood Association, and each piece shall bear its identifying grade mark and be certified by said Association.

Such siding shall have one or more coats of approved creosote, 'applied to the back or unexposed side after placing.

Unexposed siding (sheathing), which is to be diagonally placed, shall be Grade No. 1 Heart Common Redwood, properly grade marked and certified to by the California Redwood Association, and this siding below the first floor level shall have one or more coats of approved creosote applied to the back or unexposed side after placing.

These provisions will become effective April 1, 1934.

Fred Eckert will be the supervising inspector. The inspection work of the Los Angeles office will be under the supervision of the Grading Committee of the California Redwood Association which includes Herb Klass of The Pacific Lumber Company, and C. W. Broback of the Union Lumber Company.

U, K. Import Quota of Russian Lumber Reduced

Washington, March l5.-Late advices from the United Kingdom regarding the reduction in the authorized quota of Russian lumber in the British market for the coming season state that the amount permitted, 350,000 standards, or 693,000,000 feet, is a reduction of 100,000 standards, or 198,000,000 feet, from the former quota of 450,000 standards, 891,000,000 feet.

Previous dispatches, which had given the amount of reduction as 850,00O standards, had caused apprehension in some quarters that the Russian lumber exporting organizations might exert an effort to divert large quantities of timber products to this country. However, official Russian advices declare that the U.S.S.R. does not consider the United States as a large potential market, but rather as one of the main future competitors of Russia.