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Violate or Liquidate Only Choice under OPA Lumber Dealer Tells Senate

Washington, D.C., May 6.Unless OPA is curbed, small business men have but two choices-to violate the law or liquidate the business, Arthur Clifford, vice president of A. W. Burritt Company, Bridgeport, Conn., told the Senate Banking and Currency Committee today during OPA extension hearings.

"Lumber mills and dealers trading in the black market are not protesting OPA regulations," Clifford asserted. "They are doing quite as well as the racketeers of the Prohibition Era. But legitimate lumber dealers have neither lurnber nor hope of remaining in business."

Speaking for the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association of Washington, D.C., Clifford pointed out that OPA's {ormulas were apparently designed to allow the average small lumber dealer about $50 a year more than was paid to unskilled labor.

OPA, he explained, has taken the 1936-1939 business as its base. About one-half of the lumber yards operating in 1939 rn'ere in tou'ns of 2,500 and less. The average sales volume of these 12,3N yards was $32,756. If the industry averag'e profit recently used by OPA were applied to the 1939 volume, half the lumber dealers in the United States would be allowed a profit of $884.41. Unskilled workers during 1939, working a 40-hour week, would have made $832 a year. But according to OPA, lumber dealers should be allowed only $52 a year more to compensate for their investment.

Actually, Clifford stated, 9,000 of 12,000 lumber yards in towns ol 2,5N or less are owned by a sole proprietor. Therefore, the profit of $884.41 on a $32,756 investment represents the proprietor's salarv as well as his profit' Forcing a lumber dealer to absorb mill price increases is absurd under such circumstances, Clifford averred.

Boards and 2x4's 'are the two items needed for home construction of any kind, he said. "Lumber inventories in dealers' yards amounted to 6 billion board feet in 1941 but today inventories are down to 1 billion board feet. No manufacturer in his right mind would manufacture fir dimension lumber when timbers bring more money.

The lumber dealer has to absorb the cost of remanufacturing unusable sizes into home building lumber-or go out of business under OPA regulations, Clifford concluded.

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Los Angeles Building Permits

Building Permits in Los Angeles of over $23.4 million \,vere approved during April, 1946, according to the department of building and safety. This compares with nearly $30 million in March, 1946, and $3.5 million in April, 1945. Total to date this year is over $88 million compared with $12.4 million for the like 1945 period.

Will Build New Wcrehouse in Oqklcrnd

United States Plywood Corp. has bought property with frontage on 3rd, 4th, and Brush Streets, Oakland, and will erect a new building for a warehouse starting construction about June 1. The building u'ill have floor space of 22,500 feet.

Don Kesselring is manager of the Oakland branch of the United States Plvwood Corp.