"Doings of the Millwork Institute"

By H. P. Dixon, American Door Co., Los Angeles President, Millwork Institute of California

The Millwork Men of the State are to be congratulated on the fact that for over three years, through the many local and inter-district troubles, they have kept friendly contact-through the medium of the Institute.

They have succeeded to the extent, that practically every Millman of any consequence is personally acquainted with the other California operators. They know each other well enough to appreciate and regpect the individual knowledge and technical experience and they now stand ready to collectively study and solve the problems that modern industrial progress creates.

With the background the founders of the Institute built and the fine spirit of cooperation that has developed-the members are now ready and anxious to accomplish-and "action" is their watchword.

They have planned a research study for the purpose of engineering the Industry in the State-to anticipate the future, and to act in advance of the application of the economic law. This will give the consumer a higher qual- ity of workmanship, design, standardized service and an efficiency only possible through cooperative comparison of method.

The law- of diminishing returns, the study of balanced return and Industrial enlineering can be s6lved only by group action-and the figures and technical detail necessary can come only through cooperative action.

By July a committee will have a program to submit to the Conference on this subject outlining the preliminary steps, with the subsequent move and the necessary technicians. It is hoped that the action taken will make it possible to submit at the November Conference-data of such character and guidance that the State Organization will lead the way for others and possible for the National Association of Millwork Ooerators.

Events are proving that those far-sighted men of the Industry who forsaw that lumber-whether rough or fabricated-was more or less a co-related Industry, were really

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