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The National Retail Lumber Dealers' Association submitted their code to the National Industrial Recovery Administration on July 27, and hearings have been set to start August 16.
The National Recovery Administration on August 4 authorized the immediate adoption of modified re-employment agreements for 11 industries, including retail lumber and building materials. The industries rvere permitted to put into effect wages and hour terms of their orvn codes in place of the voluntary blanket NRA agreement.
The retail lumber and building materials dealer code provides for a 40-hour week, with the exception for emergency and seasonal employment. Minimum wages are set by states or zones ranging from 3O cents in Alabama, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Texas and \A/est Virginia, to 45 cents in California, Illinois, Nerv York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Wisconsin and the upper peninsula of Michigan and the larger cities in several other states. Wages of 35 and 4O cents an hour were provided in the rest of the territorv.
' Eddie Peggs, sales manager of W. R. Chamberlin & Co., has returned from a business trip to the Northwest where he visited a number of sawmills including those for which his company is California sales agent, and spent some time at the Portland office. He saved himself a lot of hard driving in hot weather by making the trip both ways on the company's steamers, and taking his car along.
Lumbermen's Post, No. 403 of the American Legion, is carrying on an extensive drive to increase its membership. The Post now has 5O members and plans to increase its membership enrollment to 100 mernbers by September l. Membership in the Post has been extended to include the allied building industries.
Leo E. Hubbard, Hayward Lumber & Investment Co., I-os Angeles, is chairman of the Post's membership committee. Russell Gheen, C. D. Johnson Lumber Co., Los Angeles, is commander of the Post.
Kenneth Smith, of Los Angeles, secretary of the Lumber & Allied Products Institute, left for Washington, Saturday evening, August 12, to attend the retail lumber clealer code committee meetings on August 14 and 15, and the retail lumber code hearings that will begin there on August 16. He will represent the Los Angeles' dealers.
Mr. Smith left for the National capitol from San Francisco where he was in attendance at the annual meetings of the Pacific Coast Hardwood Dealers' Association and the Pacific Coast Hardwood Flooring Dealers' Association on August Il and 12.
A. B. Hammond, president of the Hammond Lumber Co., has returned to his office in San Francisco aftel spending a couple of weeks at Arrowhead Springs.
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Softwood lumber orders booked at the sarymills during the week ended July 29, 1933, were below production for the third consecutive week and for the first time in a year hardwood ordets also fell below the output, according to reportE to t{re National Lumber Manufacturers Association from regional associations covering the operations of. 637 leading softwood and hatdwood mills. Production during the week at 2t0r54lr 000 feet was 14 per cent heavier tfian the average of the preceding eight weeks and orders at 1591646roo0 feet, were 3O per cent below the avetage new business of the same previotrs period. Shipments during the week totaled ZO5r22OrOOO f,eet Forest products cadoadings at 28r7O4 cars during the week ended July 22 were the highest since June, 1931, bringing the year's total 3 per cent above the similar period of 1972.
The West Coast Lumberments Association reports that new business received by the mills during the week ended July 29 was 16 per cent under the previous week. Production decreased 5.42 per cent below the level of the week befote; shipments continued hea.y and unfilled orderrs at the close of the week were 38.8 per cent of the lumber in pile. Inventories wete 12.4 per c€nt less than at this time last year. Since tfie first of July the former active demand has slowed up. The normal slack season of the ye:rr occurs during the summer, and this summer it has been complicated by heavy speculative buying in May
PRospect 3810 is the new telephone number of W. T. Black, our San Francisco representative. His address is 645 Leavenworth Street, San Francisco.
The Millwork Institute of California has called a general meeting to be held at the San Carlos Hotel, Monterey, Calif., on Saturday, August 19, 1933. The purpose of tlie meeting is to take final ,consideration and approval of a C-ode of Fair Competition for the entire millwork industry of the state. All members of the industry are invited tb attend this important meetingi.
and June and by the uncertainties of the national and regional codes, the Associati:"
The California lumber situation showed no change during the past two weeks and continues quiet refecing the usual sea. sonal slow_up in business. Unsold stocks on fie public doc&s at San Pedro are very low and amounted to only g5lrOOO feet orr August 7. palSo arrivals at San Pedro fo,r the wee& ending August 5 totaled l2r3zlrffiO feet, and included 15 cargoes o1 Fir carrying llr984r000 feet and o,ne cargo of Redwood with 337r0ffJ f.et. 63 vessels in the coastwise lumber service were operating on August 3; 42 ve.*e[s were laid up.
The directors of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association met at Bakersfield, Calif., Friday, August 11, to discuss the National Retail Lumber Dealers' Association code which has been filed with the Recoverv Administration at Washington,
Dee Essley and Harry A. Lake were delegated to represent Northern and Southern California, respectively, at the meetings of the Coordinating and Arbitration Committee, the Controlling Authority established by the code to assist the Recovery Administration at Washington, on August 14 and 15, and at the code hearings that will begin there on August 16. Mr. Essley and Mr. Lake left for Washington by airplane, Saturday evening, August 12.
As the Recovery Administration will only consider the National retail lumber code, each of the state and regional groups will constitute one of the divisions under the code.
As California represents one of the divisions for the purpose of administering the code in the state, the Association representatives will ask that the state be divided into two districts, Northern and Southern California, each district to have its own administration agencies.
The state association directors at a meeting at Santa Barbara on Saturday, August 5, adopted a State Code of Fair Competition as provided for under Section 3 of the Supplement to the California Recovery Act which has been filed at Sacramento.
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"What's in a name?" asks the cynic. Well, a whole lot, I'd say ! Take the name "Johnson", for instance ! ***
Stock remark of every man returned from Washington where he has been on business connected with the Recovery Act: "And is that Johnson TOUGH? Boy!"
Truly it was no boy's job to which President Roosevelt called this man Johnson. And truly, also, this "ain't no boy" that he called. ***
Since this old world was young we've heard a lot about codes; the "moral code" the "code of honor" the "code duello," and various other well known and highly advertised codes. But "from now on," as the nigger said, the word "code" in this country is going to mean just one thing, and that is the Recovery Act Code. All others will seem weak, puny, and sterile by comparison.
The Recovery Act -", n."" n* " lot of employees on a, ,{Lhour week, but it has had tens of thousands of employers doing what seems like a 40-hour DAY for the .past several weeks, working out the problems. The average executive all over this country, by the time he gets his code working, is going to need a rest and vacation more than ever before in his life.It has even definitely taken the lives of good men and true, just the work and the worry attendant on the Code. ***
The acceptance by the American people of President Roosevelt's plea for a general volunteer Recovery Act enlistment on the part of employers, is startling in every particular. There has been no counterpart for it in all history. ft was accepted like a call for national defensewhich of course it WAS. There \pas no lagging, no hanging back, and a minimum of criticism and objection. Even the most enthusiastic could hardly have anticipated so whole-souled a gesture. The President said-"I invite you to join,"-and they JOINED. That's all tfiere was to it. Nothing like it has ever happened before. Everyone's thinking it, tdking it, DOING it. It is almost the one topic of discussion before this nation. That so far-reaching, so utterly difficult, so unusual, and so bewildering a plan would be instantaneously and unquestionably acceptedchallenges belief. Yet it was done. It is history.
There were, necessarily, almost innumerable difriculties
to be surmounted. To lay down a single measuring stick and make the business and industry of one hundred and twenty millions of people conform to it, will go down into history as the most stupendous economic feat ever tried. But it has been done. And let it be said in honor of the American people that in trying to solve the manifold problems that arose, the question that was always asked was "IIow can I?" rather than "Why should I?" All honor to them.
The Recovery Act and its practical application to business has naturally developed an utterly countless number of difficult problems to be met and solved; but I know of none more difficult than that of the stout-hearted and generous employer who has been carrying 20 people on his payroll when he could at any time have gotten along grandly with twelve or fifteen, paying them what the business would permit and trying by the share-the-work philosophy to keep them all employed. Now comes the Government and imposes upon him shorter hours and higher pay. He doesn't need the people he now has, even at the present hours and wage scale. He has been holding them for their own sake because he knew they could not get jobs, and waiting for business to pick up. Isn't THAT a tough spot? And, there are lots of such cases in every town, ever;rwhere. ***
World's of loyal employers have been saying-"\ilrre're with you, Mr. Roosevelt, in your Recovery Act, and we'll do our best to help, but what are we going to use for money?" And THAT question has got to be answered. ***
Jesse H. Jones, chairman of the R. F. C., made a radio talk the other night to the entire nation. Something tells me that he was simply expressing the opinions of a certain Mr. Roosevelt-of whom you may have heard. Mr. Jones urged the banks of the nation to join in the present tremendous effort at the recovery of prosperity by extending credit in their local territories, where credit was needed and deserved. He offered the help of Governrnent cash for this purpose, where desired. !F:l*
He correctly stated that unless the country has credit, the present unprecedented effort being made under the Secovery Act will come to naught. Right! Without an enormously enlarged credit situation, as compared with (Continued on Page 8)
Never before in the history of the Pioneer Paper Company has a new produ,ct met with such a tremendous response from dealers as the new Standard Hexagonal Setab Asphalt Shingle in the new Clover Blend, a deep non-fading green swept with touches of purple and buff, according to offi,cials of' the ,company. Within a rveek after the product was announced, the Pioneer plant, one of the largest roofing factories in the West, was swamped with more orders than ,could be produced. As a result of the unprecedented demand, the company worked double shift on the new product, until it had filled all orders booked by its sales organization throughout the eleven western states.
The Standard Hex Setab is controlled by patents and is manufactured by the Pioneer Paper Company under license agreement. The reason for the universally favorable reaction from both the trade and home owners, the company states, is found in the fact that this new shingle combines the most popular design, the standard hexagonal shape, with the exclusive patented Setab feature, which gives extra weight on the exposed surface of the shingle and at the same time gives extra protection by sealing in the edges with a coating of asphalt. Added to this is the new clover trlend, developed exclusively by Pioneer. It is a new deep shade of green, with a flow of purple and buff swept across the shingles.
Edric E. Brown, The Pacific Lumber Company, San Francisco, was a Los Angeles visitor around the first of the month where he spent several days on company business.
Kirchmann Hardwood Co. of San Francisco, recent victims of a fire, believed by the policb and fire department t<r be of incendiary origin, have moved to 2800 Third Streel, San Francisco, where they have leased part of the site t-rf the Roth-Maier Lumber Co., and will continue here to carry on their hardwood business as before.
H. W. Kanne, manager of the company, states that they have a large stock of the finest bone-dry Japanese Oak that entirely escaped damage by the fire. This has been moved to the new site, and large stocks of foreign and domestic hardwoods have been ordered and are on the way. Some of the new stock has already arrived and Mr. Kanne hopes they will be completely established by September l.
The company has retained its old telephone number, VAlencia 6261.
Balboa Mill& Cabinet Co., formerly of 100 Havelock Street, San Francisco, has also moved to 2800 Third Street, having leased the planing mill from the Roth-Maier Lumber Co. The partners in this concern are Wm. H. Gilson, George Wallace and G. W. Nielsen, and they manufacture a complete line of millwork.
The concentration of these three important businesses at this splendid location on one of the main arteries of traffic rvill undoubtedly be a distinct advantage to each of them, and also a great convenience to the buying public and the trade. The principals of these firms predict that the time saving factors in this new arrangement will be quickly appreciated.
It should be distinctly understood that there is no consolidation of interests, as each of the concerns is operating separately.
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the credit situation of the immediate past, the enforced provisions of the Act seekin! to put millions of idle men back to work, must fall like a house of cards. And where, pray tell, is this needed money and credit to come from?
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precipice. With such a concept, and in such an attitude, he turned and struck boldly out upon the unexplored paths we are today traveling. **t
From the day the Recovery Act became a moot matter, wise men have been asking continually-"Where is the necessary money to do this thing to come from?" Mr. Jones answers the question. It must come from banks. Mr. Jones says: "THE MANUFACTURER,
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CARRY ON IN THE RECOVERY PROGRAM." And, he adds that banks must meet this condition by "lending on sound local values, not reeklessly, but based on a GOING instead of a BUSTED country."
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In light of the great need, it requires no great stretch of the imagination to see a Government bank in every town furnishing cash and credit to put over the Recovery Act. If men can be drafted, and employers can be draftedsurely money and credit can also. *{.*
Every day we read or hear remarks to the effect that we are journeying far afield frorn the faith of the fathers, and from our long-sustained beliefs in our constitutional rights, etc., etc. Of course we are ! We are seeing things that just six short months ago we would have considered nothing short of madness; we would have scoffed aloud had any one dared to predict matters that are today transpiring all about us. No earthly doubt about that ! And IV\/HY?
well, one man's ,o""" 1" ;"J"" good as another's, but the things that have been done and said by President Roosevelt-and in his name by others-of late, convince me beyond a semblance of doubt that our President had piled before him a mountain of evidence of such tragic character that he knew in his heart that unless we found a way out of the wilderness and off of the dangerous road we were traveling, insurmountable tragedies would be the lot'of this nation before another winter had passed. And, seeing these proofs, and realizing the enormity of the threat, he decided that no intelligently directed effort toward salvation,-regardless of how far from our previously considered ideas of political propriety and safety they might take us-would be too extreme to fit the emergency. He knew in his heart that the old rules and the old ways would only take us over the edge of the
It was just a plain case of do something tremendousor else. So we are trying th€ "else" choice. And the duty and obligation of every rnan is not to criticize or to try and pull apart the things that are being done, but to offer during every hour of the day the fervent prayer that this unprecedented effort is successful, and that the horrors it was constructed to evade, may pass from us. We were -no doubt,-facing tragedy grim and great. We have bet the works that the path we are following is the way out. The fewer people we have throwing wrenches in the gearing, the better our chances of weathering the storm. Everyone must do his share. It may hurt some, but it can't be helped. Just hop to it, and pray God it works out. This is no Sunday School picnic we are on l It is the mightiest effort of an economic character ever attempted in this old world's history; and the trouble it aims to cure is the most malignant that history bears witness of. We need faith, and courage, and stoutness of heart, and unselfishness all the way down the line. In that fashion only can we reach our objectiv*-peace and prosperity.
Speaking of objectiver,*r, I ,l*"-0", correctly the objective of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States at the time of its organization was to "keep Government out of private business." Now, THERE'S a job !
Here's a good Biblical *.*ar." for a closing paragraph: "The Lord of l{eaven f,Ie will prosper us and we His children shall arise and build." (Nehemiah).
The Pacific Lumber Company will announce the second in its series of pre-fabricated Redwood products in the next issue of The California Lumber Merchant'
This product will appeal particularly to dealers in rural clistricts, and will be a fitting companion piece to their pre-fabri,cated Septic Tank which is receiving such general approval throughout the State.
Frank R. Close, owner and manager of the Frank R. Close Lumber Co. at Sutter, Calif., has left on a two weeks' trip by automobile to Portland, Ore', and other Northwest points.
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A zone method of handling dealer orders permitting closer contact with ,customers, which has proved so successful 'in the speeding up of deliveries and simplifying business relations in a number of industries, is being instituted in the lumber business by the Weyerhaeuser Sales C,ompany, according to an announcement by Mr.I. N. Tate, general manager.
On July 16th the Weyerhaeuser Sales Company opened three zone offices, each of which handles for its zone all accounting, invoicing, receiving of remittances, and all matters pertaining to credits. The easterfl zone office is at Newark, New Jersey, that of the central zone at Saint Paul, Minnesota, and of the western zone at Ta.coma, Wash.
"Not only do we look for an improvement in shipping service," said Mr. Tate, "but we also feel that all business matters will be simplified by this closer localized contact. Of especial interest to lumber dealers will be the fact that invoices for all pur,chases will be in the name of the Weyerhaeuser Sales Company and will originate in the zone where the dealer is located. Heretofore invoices have come to the dealer from the individual mill making shipment, and this has necessitated the dealer's keeping a separate ledger account for each of the mills in the group from rvhich he received shipment."
Zone accounting and credit manag'ers have been appointed to foster a closer relationship between the buyer and seller and to establish a more intimate contact with spe,cial conditions prevailing in their particular zones.
J. A. Hart, J. A. Hart Mill& Lumber Co., San Francisco, was elected president of the San Francis,co Planing Mill Owners' Association, whi,ch was recently organized in San Francisco.
E. J. Nutting, Herring & Nutting, San Francisco, was elected vice-president, and H. W. Gaetjen, San Francisco, was elected secretary-treasurer.
The directors are L. J. Pierce, Pacific Manufacturing Co., Santa Clara; George T. Gerken, National Mill& Lumber Co., Oakland; H. W. Fennimore, Sudden Lumber Co., San Francis,co, and the president and vice-president.
The new association has endorsed the tentative code proposed by the Millwork Institute of California.
A pamphlet recently published by The Pacific Lumber Company for distribution by dealers explains in concise and simple language the true requirements and functions of a septic tank. This phamplet, entitled "Safe Sewage Disposal at Low Cost", will be of great assistan,ce to dealers in selling the Palco Redwood Pre-Fabricated Septic Tank, which embodies the very latest developments in septic tank sanitation.
Jerry Stutz, salesman for Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., with headquarters in Stockton, left San Francisco July 8 on the steamer Peter Helms, accompanied by his wife, for a business and vacation trip to the Northwest. While in Oregon and Washington he will visit the company's mills and offi,ces.
Washington, July 27.-The Emergency National Committee of the lumber and timber products industries, now officially known as the Lumber Code Authority, has been almost continuously in session here since July 10, or in attendance at the lumber code hearing, which began before Deputy Administrator Cates on July 20. The Committee has had an infinite amo{rnt of business to attend to besides that of expounding and defending the lumber code, including alterations in the code proper, changes in rules and regulations under it. and adjustments of the Code of Fair Practices governing the relations among manufacturers, wholesalers and distributors. It has also had the tedious work of examining and passing upon the numerous division supplements. The Committee. virtually concluded its formal presentation on Jaly 22. j
On July 2l,lohn D. Tennant, chairman of the Committee, submitted on behalf of it a proposal that, without prejudice to final determination, the Administration order into effect the proposed wages and hours provisions of the code. Mr. Tennant said that forced production on a large scale was going on in many mills in order to accumulate large stocks before wages and hours schedules should become effective. This proposal was taken under consideration and was later denied. It is currently reported that the minimum wage rate will be fixed at 32 Cents an hour. President Roosevelt is expected to proclaim the code at an early date.
The hearings have been conducted by Deputy Recovery Administrator Dudley Cates, who has been assisted by M. W. Stark, Assistant to the Administrator; Laird Bell, Industry Advisor to the Administrator; Leo Wolman, Labor Advisor to the Administrator, and W. W. Cumberland, Economic Advisor to the Administrator. They have been held in the Auditorium of the Department of Commerce and have aroused much publi.c interest, the average attendance being from 300 to 500, including many lumbermen. Examination of witnesses has been sear,ching and detailed.
"I am informed that this ,code and preparation of it represents a degree of cooperation unprecedented in an industry", said Mr. Cates in ,calling the initial session to order, "which has been noted in the past for its high degree of individualism. It might be symbolized by the 'Lone Wolf.' This code is the first presented by one of the great natural resource industries and it proposes not only new standards of hours and wages for labor, but also the proposed control of production and price-protections. fhol: are very serious aspects of any plan for industrial selfgovernment because the control of produ,ction and price features under the plan proposed by the industry is left toit. The burden -of .proof is necessarily on the industry
C. Arthur Bru.ce, acting executive officer, outlined the program of the Committee's presentation of data bearing on the code. He then called on Dr. Compton to present the economic background of the code. Dr. Compton said that the fundamental economic condition of the lumber and timber products industries was perilous. "In timber ownership and in these industries and in the distribution of their products are invested 10 billion dollars. They ordinarily furnish employment to hundreds of thousands of men in regions which often furnish no other industry employment. Upon them largely depend the industrial de-
velopment and the permanent productive use of a fourth of the land area of the United States. The national timber supply, not including the new growth, which is extensive and fast increasing, is sufficient to sustain for more than 100 years the averale rate of lumber-production during the past two years, and for half a century at the average rate of the past ten years." After remarking that national lumber consumption during the past five years has fallen Lrom 37 billion feet to less than 12 billion feet, and that wages to labor represent a substantially greater percentage of the price which the public pays for lumber than for the principal other materials, Compton added. "Our industries cannot pay higher labor costs without, concurrently, the increased means, through higher prices or more trade, of paying them. But prices sufficient to pay more wages cannot be established in the market merely because we so decree. They can be established only, if and as the public can pay."
In reference to employment, Dr. Compton pointed out that the number of men employed in the sawmills per thousand feet of lumber produced was 49 per cent greater in 1932 than in 1929. He estimated that the proposed wage and labor schedules would, rvhen in full effect, add 131, 000 men to the industry's pay rolls, including 57,000 in the South and 74,ffi in the West, North and East.
On a later occasion Dr. Compton (David T. Mason speaking for him) reviewed the correspondence between the National Lumber Manufacturers Association and Secretary of Agri'culture Wallace, in regard to Article X of the Code, dealing with conservation and sustained production of forest resources. This Article, slightly changed from its original form, is as follows:
"Art. X-The applicant industries undertake, in cooperation with the public and other agencies, to carry out such practicable measures as may be necessary for the declared purposes of this Code in respect of conservation and sustained production of forest resources. Such cooperation involves the assumption of substantial obligations by said public agencies and by said industries. The applicant industries shall forthwith request a conference with the Secretary of Agri'culture and such State and other public and other agencies as he may designate. Said conference shall be requested to make to the Secretary of Agriculture recommendations of public measures, with the request that he transmit them, with his recommendations, to the President; and to make recommendations for industrial action to the Lumber Code Authority, Inc., which shall promptly take' such action. and. shall submit to the President such supplements to this Code, as it determines to be necessary and feasible to give effect to said declared purpose. Such supplements shall provide for the initiation and administration of said measures necessary for the conservation and sustained production of foresl resources, by the industries within each Division, in cooperation with the appropriate State and Federal authorities; and shall provide steps necessary to secure prompt change of systems of local taxation of forest property as will aid in preventing the wasteful exploitation of timber."
This part of the code has been watched with intense interest by the various agencies and organizations interested in forest conservation; and that it is satisfactory to them is evidenced by the fact that no objection was taken to it during the hearings.
When General Johnson was introduced to the meeting he was received with a loud applause, to which he grimly responded by saying: "Maybe you had better save that until you see what you get." The General described the depression as "a hellish thing" that was worse in physical suffering and material loss than anything the country experienced in the War. There seemed to be, he said, an emergence from the depression, but the rapid rise in retail prices-"more rapid than any we have svsl trad"-was far ahead of any similar rise in purchasing and consuming power. The purpose of the National Recovery Administration was to bring up purchasing power rapidly. Gen. Johnson described the plan of attack on the depression as peculiarly President Roosevelt's own personal concept.
"I am not here to talk to you", he said, "for the purpose of exhortation so far as this code is concerned, be,cause we will not permit exhortation and harangue from anybody. We have no right to indulge in exhortation and harangue on our part, and if this seems to fall in any such line as that it is because in the execution of this Act we feel so strongly the principles that are being developed that it seems to me almost a duty to come here and try to expose to the extent I can, not the details of the execution, but its capacity, the fundamentals that are being demonstrated almost hourly as to the possibilities and opportunities that are open here for industry and for the workers in industry. The primary purpose of the Act is to raise conditions of the workers for a social purpose in a degraded world (in an economic sense)-that purpose is the absolute aim of self-preservation.
"What I mean is this: There exists in the United States one hundred and twenty-five million people, all within one boundary so far as customs are concerned, and I mean by that tariffs, trade barriers; those people have been trained to the greatest consumptive capacity, man for man, of any
people in the world, and the thing that has held us back has been disparities. If you could build up that purchasing and consuming power by the erasure of the principal disparities, then we would have an industrial prospcrity in this country such as we have never even seen or dreamed of.
"The principal disparities are not hard to seek. There are two principal ones; one is the condition of agri'culture, which for a variety of reasons has been a disparity with us for a great many years. The other is very obvious, this terrific condition of unemployment in this iountry, and the lack of adjustment of workers' income to the goods they are supposed to consume."
After formal presentation of the code by Mr. Tennant, Col. W. B. Greeley, secretary-manager of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, discussed "Proposed Methods of Production Control and Allocation." Following his presentation of the problem, Col. Greeley said:
"IJnless the aggregate production can be kept in balance with current demand the industry will be thrown back into chaos, and another wave of unemployment or dislocation of labor will set in. To meet this situation, the code", he said, "proposed to empower the Lumber Code Authority to authorize restrictions upon new mill installations in the various divisions where necessary, this power to cease whenever the Recovery Administrator may find that present capacity is insufficient to supply demand."
An "appalling record of idle sawmill capacity" was submitted as eviden'ce for the necessity for such authority. That authority will assign production quotas to the various divisions by suitable periods based upon anticipated consumption and substantially in the ratio of their former shipments, respectively, over representative periods. Within each division quotas will be allocated to the individual
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DURABLE ECONOMICAL EASY TO ERECT FIRE RETARDENT NO TASTE OR ODOR
Redwood possesseo characteristics unsurpassed by any other material for the construction of Mining Tmks, lVater Tanks, Oil Tanks, Beer and rtr7ine Tanls. Because of its durability and f,re retardance it will outlast any other tanL. The low cost price of Redwood tanks, the ease of erection and transpcrtation makes them an all around economical tanL and because Redwood has no taste or odor, it makes the most practical container for any liquid from milk to oil.
The handiest tool around the yard for-rippingt bevel-angle and cross cattting
Ta&e the tool to the lunbet pil+ Save that coctly handlingSave those ehort lengths-
Table Sawc - Jointers - Glue Pou
Band Sawc - Vood Lath€s - Shapers
Flexible Shafts - Grinders - Sanderc
Concrete Surfaces - Electric Drille
The colored evangelist was warming to his exhortation. He was holding the penalty of unrepentant sin before the minds of his congregation. Eternity in Hell ! He had pictured Hell, plenty. The leaping flames. The stenph of brimstone. The tortures of the writhing, condemned souls.
"But now, sistern an' bredern, does yo' know what's Eternity?Kin yo' sinful mi4ds picture ETERNITY? Eternity in HELL? Lemme give you a idea what eternity in Hell IS. Ovah yondah to de East, is de Atalantic Ocean. An' ovah yondah to de West is de Pucific Ocean. Hit's three thousand miles of dis United States of America, solid land, between dem two oceans. Three thousand miles of land between dem two oceans whut's got so rnuch watah in 'em dat de Mississippi Rivah don' mount to no mo' to'em dan one spit in Hell.
"Heah comes a li'l jay-bird. Dis jay-bird he stan's on de beach of de Pucific Ocean. He pick up jus' ONE li'l drap o' watah in he beak. Den he start back East. He donl fy. He don' run. He don' hop. Dat li'l jay-bird he jus' walk slow-lak an' easy, wif dat drap o' watah in he beak. He walk plumb fum San Francisco to New Yawk. Three thousand miles he walk. When he git to New
The Western Pine Association, with headquarters at Portland, Oregon, has announced that recent additions to its membership include the following companies: Algoma Lumber Co., Algoma, Oregon; J. H. Hines Co., Tularosa, New Mexico; Mount Emily Lumber Co., La Grande, Oregon; New Mexico Lumber & Timber Co., Bernalillo, New Mexico; Pound Bros. Lumber Co., Chama, New Mexico; Red River Lumber Co., Westwood, California; Sumpter Valley Pine Co., Sumpter, Oregon; and Warren-Lamb Lumber Co., Rapid City, South Dakota.
E. B. (Ed) Culnan has returned to San Diego to resume the management of the Western Lumber Company. For the past few months, he carried on a wholesale lumber business and acted as Southern California representative for W. R. Chamberlin & Co. with headquarters in Los Angeles.
Yawk, he drap dat drap o' watah fum de Pacific Ocean into de Atalantic Ocean.
"Den he walk back dem three thousand miles to San Francisco, agin. He don' fly. He don' run. He dop' hop. He jus' walk, slow-lak an' easy. When he git to San Francisco he pick up one mo' drap o' watah out'n de Pucific Ocean, an' he start back fo' New Yawk. Drap by drap, sistern an' bredern, dat li'l jay-bird he finish de job he done start. He don' fly. He don' run. He don' hop. He jus' walk, back an' fo'th, slow-lak an' easy. He ca'y dat watah fum de West to de East, fum de Pucific to de Atalantic, drap by drap, in he li'l beak. FIe ca'y hit fum de Pucific Ocean, an'he drap hit into de Atalantic Ocean.
"Dat li'l jay-bird he emtpy de hull Pucific Ocean inter de Atalantic Ocean. Drap by drap he walk three thousand miles an' he empty a ocean so big dat if'n you wuz to empty de hull Mississippi Rivah inter it, hit would be jus' lak you or me spittin' inhit. He did'n fy. He did'n run. He did'n hop. He jus' walk, easy-lak, till he empty de Pucific Ocean, drap by drap.
"An' when he done finish dat job, bredern an' sistern, HIT AIN'T SUN-UP IN HELL. YIT."
Trinidad Redwood Company, manufacturers of Redwood with mill at Klamath, Del Norte County, have changed their name to Klamath-California Redwood Company.
J. M. Chartrand is in charge of the company's San Francisco office.
W. D. Dunning, formerly with Hammond & Little River Redwood Co., is Southern California representative, with headquarters in Los Angeles.
The Eleventh Annual meeting of the Pacifi'c Coast Building Offi,cials Conference will be held at Monterey, Calif., from August 23 to 26, 1933. Among business matters to be discussed will be revisions in the Uniform Code, and David H. Merrill, Managing Secretary-Treasurer, urges all members to attend the meeting.
The standard hexagonal shaped strip shingle has alwal's been the most popular selling design in the Pioneer line. It is now the basis of the new Standard Hex Setab in the Clover Blend.
Edges of the hex seip, sealed in with asphalt and heavilv coated with crushed rock makes the exclusive Setab feature. It has extra weather protection, added u'eight and shadoru' Iine.
unretorrched photograph shows a conrparisqn of the wc'iqht and thickness on ihe surfac exposed to thc weather of thc Standard Hex S-tab. as corrtrastcd with thc rrqul;rr Stand ard H r;rsphrlt shingie.
The rugged appearance of the heavily built Setab, plus the popular hexagonal design is climaxed by the beauty of the new deep non-fading clover green, swept with touches of purple and buff.
Size-ll l/3 x 36 inches.
Two shingles per strip.
Two bundles per square.
Strips to the square--86.
Weight-approx. 16O lbs per square.
This sensational new asphalt the regular blended standard its extra features. It is the offered.
shingle is priced the same as hex. You pay no more for gteatest shingle value ever
Color-Deep non-fading Clover gt€en.
The two California Recovery Bills passed'at the short session of the legislature which work in accord with the National Recovery Act were signed by Governor Rolph on August 4. As each bill declared an emergency, they became efiective on the Governor's signature. They remain in effect for two years unless the Governor declares the emergency at an end.
Assembly Bill No. 2432, The California Industrial Recovery Act, sets up national codes as the standard in California when intrastate, or local, business affects interstate, or national, business.
Assembly Bill No. 2400, Supplement to the California Industrial Recovery Act, covers intrastate business not operating under the national code. Local business associations are allowed to form codes for submission to the Commissioner of Corporations, and if it has the concurrence of the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations, the Commissioner approves the code and all members of the trade group must comply. Collective bargaining is allowed under the code. A filing fee of $25 must be paid for the code submitted, and employers must pay a license fee not to exceed 25 cents for each employee per annum.
Following are the texts of the two bills: California Industrial Recovery Act
ministration and enforcement of the said act and to prescribe their authorities, duties and responsibilities.
Nothing in this act contained shall be held to afiect or supersede any contract or agreement as to any standard or standards of conditions of employment agreed upon or established by means of collective bargaining between employers and employees, or by and between or with organizations of employers or of employees, where any such standard of condition of employment is higher or more advantageous to employees under such collective agreement than the corrisponding standard provided under a fair code of competition established under the National Industrial Recovery Act, and where such standard otherwise will promote aird efiectuate the policy of said act, or to prevent employers and employees from making any such contracts or agreements which do not violate the terms of such code.
Section 3. Any person, firm, association or corporation, or agent, manager, superintendent or officer thereof, who shall violate any provision of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and for each and every such violation shall be punishable by a fine not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500) or by imprisonment for not to exceed six (6) months or both. Each and every day's continuance of such violation shall constitute a separate oftense. In addition to, and entirely independent and apart from any other penalty provided, the violation of this act is hereby declared to be a public nuisance and may be enjoined or abated in an action filed and prosecuted in the superior court of the State of California in any county, or city and county, in which such violation may occur. Such action may be filed and prosecuted by the Attorney General of the State of California or by the district attorney of any county or. city and county in the name of the people of the State of California.
section l. A State "t*tK:liila^lttn1'"11'."."
productive of widespread unemployment and disorganization of trade and industry, which burdens commerce, affects the public welfare, and undermines the standards of living of the people of this State and Nation, is hereby declared to exist. It is hereby declared to be the policy of the State of California to cooperate with and assist the National government in promoting the rehabititation of trade and industry and in eliminating unfair competitive practices, and to establish a parity in the maximum hours of labor and the minimum rates of pay and the other conditions of employment and standards of fair competition within this State between those in trades and industries or subdivisiorrs thereof engaged in transactions in or afiecting intrastate commerce in this State and those engaged therein in transactions in or afiecting interstate or foreign commerce.
Section 2. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, association or corporation engaged in the State of California in intrastate commerce in any business within any trade or industry or subdivision thereof, or in any transaction affecting intrastate commerce, to fail to comply, as to such commerce, with the terms of any code of fair competition approved, prescribed or issued for said trade or industry or subdivision thereof under Title I of that certain act of Congress of the United States entitled "An Act to encourage National industrial recovery, to foster fair competition, and to provide for the construction of certain useful works and for other purposes," approved June 16, 1933, and commonly known as the National Industrial Recovery Act, or with the terms of any agreement entered into by such person, firm, association or corporation. under the authority of said title, or with the terms or conditions of any license issued to such person, firm, association or corporation, pursuant to said titte. It shall be unlawful to engage in intrastate commerce in the State of California in any business within any trade or industry or subdivision thereof except upon the terms prescribed in licenses issued under said title to others engaged in such trade or industry or subdivision thereof while the carrying on of business within such trade'or,industry or subdivision thereo{ shall by announcement under said title be subject to license. It shall be lawful for any such person, firm, association or corporation to do or omit any act or thing required or permitted to be done or omitted by any of such terms.
To efiectuate the policy set forth in section 2 (a) of Title I of the National Industrial Recovery Act, the President of the United States is hereby authorized to appoint and utifize such State and local officers and emptoyees as he may find necessary in the ad-
Section 4. In furtherance of the purposes hereof any department of the State of California and any governing body of any political subdivision, municipal or other public corporation or of any district and any public officer or person charged with (1) the letting of contracts for the construction, alteration, or repair of public works, or (2) the purchasing of materials or supplies for public use (1) shall in letting contracts for the construction, alteration, or repair of pubtic works cause to be inserted in each such contract for an expenditure in excess of five hundred dollars a clause providing that the contractor shall give a preference of fifteen per cent to supplies, articles, and materials mined, produced, manufactured, or supplied in observance of any code of fair competition approved, prescribed, or issued under the said Title I of the National Industrial Recovery Act, or under any similar law of the State of California, or in pursuance of any agreement entered into or approved under said laws, or in conformity with the terms prescribed in any licenses issued under said laws, as the case may be, and which concerns such trade or industry and subdivision thereof as may be involved, and, (2), in the purchasing of materials or supplies for public use, shall give a preference of ten per cent to any bidder who expressly agrees to furnish only such materials or supplies so mined, produced, manufactured. or supplied.
Any contractor or person who furnishes materials or supplies for public use or on public works, in violation of any such clause in his contract shalt not be entitled to payment for the materials or supplies furnished, to the extent of such violation. Nothing contained in this act shatt, however, be construed to repeal or in any way modify the terms of any public works labor law now in effect in this State or heretofore approved or of any other law for the protection of workers in this State. The provisions of this act shall instead be construed to supplement such laws.
Section 5. This act shall cease to be in effect at the expiration of two years from the date of its enactment, or sooner and when the emergency, recognized by section I of this act, has ended if the Governor by proclamation shall so declare.
Section 6. If any section, sentence, clause or part of this act is for any reason held to be unconstitutional. such decision shall not afiect the remaining portions of this act. The Legislature hereby declares that it would have passed this act and each section, sentence, clause or part hereof, irrespective of the fact that one or more sections, sentences, clauses or parts hereof be declared unconstitutionat.
Section 7. This act may be known and cited as the California Industrial Recovery Act.
Section 8. This act is hereby declared to be an urgency measure necessary for the immediate preservation of public peace, health and safety within the meaning of section I of Article IV of the Constitution of the State of California and shall therefore go into immediate effect. A statement of the facts constituting such necessity is as follows:
There exists throughout the State of California and throughout
the United States widespread unemployment and disorganization of .industry- amounting to an economiC emergency whiih is in- juriously affecting the morale and standard of living and threatens the safety and industrial peace of the public. In order to relieve these conditions it is necessary that this State cooperate with the Federal government in requiring the people and iniustries of this State without distinction as between inlraitate commerce and interstate or foreign commerce immediately to assume the burdens contemplated ly said act of Congress and immediately to allow the peoplf and industries of this State to secure the idvantages and benefits of said act of Congress.
Supplement to the California Industrial Recovery Act (Assembly Bilf 2400)
Section l. A State and National emergency productive of widesqr3qd_ unemployment and disorganization of trade and industry, which burdens commerce, affects the public welfare, and undermines the standards of living of the people of this State and Nation, is hereby _declared,to ,exist. It is hereby declared to be the poiicy of the State of California to cooperate with and assist the Nalionil government in promoting the rehabilitation of trade and industrv and in eliminating unfair competitive practices.
Section 2. The provisions of this ait shall apply only to those engaged in the State of California in any business within any trade or industry or subdivision thereof for which no code of faii competition is approved, prescribed or issued under Title I of that certain act of Congress of the United States entitled "An act to encourage. National industrial recovery to foster fair competition. and to provide for the construction of certain useful works and for other purposes," approved June 16, 1933, and commonly known as the National Industrial Recovery Act and to which trade or industry or subdivision thereof the provisions of no code of fair competitioir which_ is approved, prescribed or issued under said act of Congress have been made applicable by any law of this State.
Irr the event that any code is approved, prescribed or issued under Title I of the said act of Congress commonly known as the National Industrial Recovery Act for any trade or industry or subdivision thereof, such code shall supersede any code or codes approved under the provisions of this act for such trade or industry or subdivision thereof and shall immediately become the code of fair competition provided for in this act for the, said trade or industry or subdivision thereof and shall be enforceable as such under the provisions hereof.
To eftectuate the policy set forth in section 2 (a) of Title I of the National Industrial Recovery Act, the President of the United States is hereby authorized to appoint and utilize such State and local officers and employees as he may find necessary in the administration and enforcement of the said act and to prescribe their authorities, duties and responsibilities.
Section 3. Upon the application to the Chief of the Division of Corporations by one or more trade or industrial associations or groups, the chief may approve, in the manner herein provided, a State code or codes of fair competition for the trade or industry or subdivision thereof represented by the applicant or applicants. if the chief finds (l) that such associations or groups impose no inequitable restrictions on admission to membership therein and are truly representative of such trades or industries or subdivisions thereof, (2) that such State code or codes are not designed to prornote monopolies or to eliminate or oppress small enterprises and will not operate to discriminate against them, and will tend to effectuate the policy of this act, and (3) that the trade or industry or subdivision thereof represented by such applicant or applicants is one to which the provisions of this act apply; provided, that such State code or codes shall not permit monopolies or monopolistic practices; provided, that where iuch State code or codes affict the services and welfare of persons engaged in other steps of the ecorromic proces,s, nothing in this section shall deprive such persons of the right to be heard prior to approval by the chief of such code or codes. The board may, as a condition of his approval of any
Expert counsel to prevent fi.resSpecialized policies to protect against lossSubstantial dividends to protect against cost. '\UTrite any of our companies.
such State code, impose such conditions (including requirements for the making of reports and the keeoing of accounti) foi the oro- accounts) for the pro- tection of consumers, competitors, employees, and others. and in e furtherance of the public interest. an( public interest, and may provide such exceptions to and exemptions from the provisions of such State code, as the provrstons chief in his discretion deems necessary to eftectuate the policy herein declared. The c.hief may from time to time bv an apolication
lrr nrs srscrcrlon enectuate poltcy nereby therefor amend any State code of fair competition, approved under the authority of this act, where. such amendment is in the public interest and in accord with the purposes of this act. The chief may also revoke his approval of any code or amendment or provision thereof.
The chief s,hall have power to make and promulgate rules and regulations consistent with and to carry out the purposes and administer the provisions of this act.
The chief shall not approve any code nor shall any code become effective nor shall he make or promulgate any rule under the provisions of this act without the concurrence, in writing, of the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations.
Section 4. Every State code of fair competition approved under this act shall contain the following conditions: (l) That employees shall have the right to organize and bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and shall be free from the interference, restraint, or coercion of employers of labor, or their agents, in the designation of such representatives or in self-organization or in other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection; (2) that no employee and no one seeking employment shall be required as a condition of employment to join any company union or to refrain from joining, organizing, or assisting a labor organization of his own choosing; and (3) that employers shall comply with the maximum hours of labor, minimum rates of pay, and other conditions of employment, provided for in said State code of fair competition, approved by the chief.
Nothing contained in this act shall, however, be construed to repeal or in any way modify the terms of any public works labor law now in effect in this State or heretofore approved or of any other law for the protection of workers in this State. The provisions of this act shall instead be construed to supplement such laws. Nor shall anything in this act contained be held to afiect or supersede any contract or agreement as to any standard or standards of conditions of employment agreed upon or established by means of collective bargaining between employers and employees, or by and between or with organizations of employers or of employees, where any such standard of condition of employment is higher or more advantageous to employees under such collective agreement than the corresponding standard provided under a fair code of competition established under this act, and where such standard otherwise will promote and effectuate the policy of said act, or to preverrt employers and employees from making any such contracts, or agreements which do not violate the terms of such code.
Section 5. For filing in his office any application for the approval or amendment of any State code of fair competition authorized, by this act the chief shal{ be entitled to charge and collect a fee of twenty-five dollars ($25). When and if the code applied for shall be approved by the chief, the chief shall be entitled to charge and collect a license fee to be determined by the chief not to exceed twenty-five cents (25c) per annum, or fraction thereof, for each employee in the trade or industry or subdivision thereof, based on thg number of employees employed at the time the chief declares the fee to be due, this license fee to be paid to the chief by each employing person, firm, association or corporation forming a component part of the trade or industry or subdivision thereof covered by the code. All moneys collected by the chief shall be deposited with the State Treasurer once each week, together with a complete statement as to the source of the coltections. and shall become a part of a special fund to be known as the Industrial Recovery fund, which fund is hereby created and which shall be
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Gord keep account of de sparrers dat fall, We stan'a-waitin', we soon hyer Him call. Gord bring de wintah De rain an' de snows, Gord make de wind blow. But jes' whar it goesGord only lmows, chile, Gord only knows.
-Ben King.The following correction appeared in a certain small town newspaper, recently:
"Our paper carried the notice last week that Mr. John Doe is a defective on the police force. This was a typographical error. What we meant is that Mr. Doe is a detective on the police farce."
And then the editor really took a trip.
If he is without friends.
If he has low ideals.
If he has a gulty conscience.
If he has lost his self-respect.
If his morals are questionable.
If he has lost his grip upon himself.
If he is selfish, uncharitable, or cruel.
If he has forfeited his health or wealth.
If his mind and soul have been neglected.
If he has traded away his character for money.
If he has a disagreeable disposition that makes enemies or repels friends.
If making money has crowded out the cultivation of his spiritual life.
-Royal Arcanum Bulletin.
"Am dey anybody in dis congregashun what wishes prar fo' dey failin's?" asked the colored preacher when he opened the prayer meeting.
"Yassuh," replied Brother Amos Dickery. "Ah's a spen'thrif', an' Ah th'ows mah money 'round reckless lak."
"We sho' prays fo' you, Brothah Dickery," said the Parson, "Jes' afteh we passes de colleckshun plate."
Douglas Malloch in "The Rotarian".
I made a list of friends, Of friends to hold.
One stole my happiness, . And one, my gold.
One went away, nor came To say goodbye,
One told a secret, and One told a lie.
I made a listof friends My friends to be.
One grew too famous to Remember me.
And, when I faltered and Must pay the price,
One gave me censure, and One gave advice.
But someone came and put His arms around, Yes, in my hour of grief
A friend I found.
One gave me strength when I Began to fall, A friend who was not on My list at all.
The roughest distance between two points.
Around forty is the time when reputation begins to count. Between thirty and forty a man builds his reputation for integrity, but it is seldom until he is past forty that he begins, so to speak, to cash in on his reputation.
-August Heckscher.
I joined the new Don't \A/orry Club, And how I hold my breath; f'm so scared for fear I'll worry That I'm worried most to death.
The Lumbermen's University of California Extension course "'Wood and Its Properties," in charge of Emanuel Fritz, Associate Professor of Forestry at the University of California, will begin at Berkeley on September 14. Meetings will be held weekly on Thursday evenings from 7:30 p.m. to 8:3O p.m. for 15 weeks in room 24I, Giannini Hall, on the University campus. The cost of the course is $6.00 for the 15 meetings.
Those who wish to take the course may enroll at the University Extension office in Oakland, 1730 Franklin Street, ftom 12 noon to 5:30 p.m., and 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. daily except Saturday; also at the Berkeley office, 301 California Hall, 8:3O a.m. to 5 p.m., daily, and Saturday, 8:30 a.m. to 12 noon. Enrollments can also be made at the San Francisco office, 540 Powell Street, from 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. daily, and 11 a.m. to I p.m., Saturday.
This course is sponsored by the East Bay Hoo Hoo Club, and was very popular last year. It is hoped that there will be a capacity attendance again this year.
The course deals with the structure of wood, its physical, mechanical and chemical properties; factors affecting the strength of wood; seasoning; deterioration; insects; fungi, uses of wood, etc.
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expended in accordance with law by the chief in his discretion in carrying out the administration and purposes of this act.
Sectio'n 6. It shal be unlawful for any person, firm, association, or, corporation engaged in the State of California in any business 'within any trade or industry or subdivision thereof subjlct to the provisions of this act to fail to comply, as to such business, with the terms of any State code of fair competition approved for said trade or industry or subdivision thereof under this act. It shall be lawful -for any such person, firm, association or corporation to do or omit any act or thing require.d or permitted to be done or omitted by any of such terms.
Section 7. Any person, firm, association, or corporation, or agent, manager, superintendent or officer, thereof, who shalt violate-any provisions of this act or any rule or regulation promulgated bV tht chief in accordance therewith shall be guilty of a misdemeanoi and for each and every such violation shall be punishable by a 6ne not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500) or by imprisonment for not to exceed six (6) months or both. Each and every day's continuance of such violation shall constitute a separate ofiense. In addition to, and entirely independent and apart from, any other penalty provided, the violation of this act is hereby declared to be a publit nuisance and may be enjoined or abated in an action filed and prosecuted in the superior court of the State of Catifornia in anv c,ounty, or city and county, in which such violation may occui. Slch action may be filed and prosecuted by the Attorney- General of the State of California or by the district attorney of any county or city and county in the name of the people of the State- of Calilornta.
Section 8. This act shall cease to be in eftect at the expiration of two years from the date of its enactrrtent. or sooner and when the emergency_, recognized.by section I of this act, has ended, if the Governor, by proclamation, shalt so declare.
_ Section 9. If any section, sentence, clause or part of this act is for any reason held to be unconstitutional, such decision shall not affefg the_remaining.portions of this act. The Legislature hereby declares that it would have passed this act and eaih section. sen-tence, clause or part hereof, irrespective of this fact that one or more sections, sentences, clauses or parts hereof be declared unconstitutional.
Section 10. This act may be known and cited as the supplement to the California Industriat Recovery Act.
Section ll. This act is hereby declared to be an urgency measure, necessary for the immediate preservation of public peact-:, health and safety within the meaning of section I of Article IV of the Constitution of the State of California and shall therefore go into immediate effect. A statement of the facts constituting such necessity is as follows:
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CALIFORNIA AGENTS
Nettleton Lumber Co.
Puget Sound Lumber Mfg. Co.
Seattle Export Lumber Co.
W'est lVaterway Lumber Co.
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA AGBNTS
Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co.
AGENTS
There exists throughout the State of California and throughout the United States widespread unemployment and disorganiZtion of industry amounting to an economic emergency which is in- juriously affecting the morale and standard of living and threatens the safety and industrial peace of the public. In order to relieve these conditions it is necessary that this State cooperate with the Federal government by authorizing the people and industries of this State without distinction as between intrastate commerce and interstate or foreign commerce immediately to assume such burdens as those contemplated by said act of Congress and immediately to secur'e such advantages and benefits as those which may not otherwise be secured under said act of Congress, and immediately to adopt and have approved State codes of fair competition for trades, industries, or subdivisions thereof for which no code of fair competition is approved, prescribed or issued under said act of Congress and to which trades, industries or subdivisions thereof the provisions of no code of fair competition which is approved, prescribed or issued under said act of Congress have been made applicable by any law of this State.
Chas. S. Dodge, formerly president of E. J. Dodge & Co., and recently associated with the Hammond Lumber Co., became a member of the sales staff of MacDonald & Harrington, San Francisco, August 1.
Mr. Dodge will cover the Northern and Central California territory, succeeding James S. Tyrrell, who has resigned to take a vacation of several months which will probably include a trip to his old home in the Emerald Isle.
* Included in Los Angeles totals.
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producers in accordance with the most equitable method David T. Mason, Manager of the 'Western Pine Assoadapted to that division. ciation, discussed wages and hours in the Western Pine West Coast Situation Division. V. A. Stibolt of the Southern Pine Association,
At a later appearance Col. Greeley made a general statement on behalf of the West Coast logging and lumber industry. He said that the opinion widely prevailed among timber owners that future increases in stumpage values will not recover the steadv accumulation of taxes and other carrying costs. The iremendous investment in standing timber ieeking liquidation has brought about an insistent pressure for the conversion of stumpage into lumber. This has resulted in (1) the construction of logging and manufacturing facilities far in excess of the demand for lumber even inlhe most favorable years; (2) the current use of installed capacity for the production of lumber in excess of current market requirements. The West Coast industry has, therefore, been in an almost chronic over-production with demoralizing effects upon markets, prices and the stability of employment. The stabilization of the industry, Col. Gieeley tield, was impossible without (a) control of the current volume of production and (b) reasonable control of minimum prices.
Col. Greeley was recalled several times during the hearings for further testimony on produ'ction, allocation and prices. He indicated that prices should be based on an average production cost of around $18 per thousand.
Sheppard on Hours and Wages
. President C. C. Sheppard of the National Lumber Manuifacturers Association, presented the wages and hours fea,tures especially in the southern lumber industry, both-hard ,and softwood.- Mr. Sheppard addressed himself-chiefly_to tthe 22rlc an hour minimum wage rate for the South. He rexpressed grave doubt as to whether the industry. cou.ld stand the burden of such a rate, which is about twice the rate being paid at present and about what it was in 1929. The wee[ly hour schedule of 48 hours was, he _said, a.20 .per cent riduction from present weekly hours. He estim,ited that this reduction would increase employment in the Southern mills by l7ffJfJ men. The new wage scale would add $2,664,000 to the Southern pine lumber payroll for the month of August.
Green, Ruegnitz and Weaver
William Green, President of the American Federation of Labor, dis,cussed the wage subject in moderate and conciliatory language. At the same time he contended that neith'er the $m.8{t weekly minimum for common labor in the South nor $20.40 in the northwest was more than a subsistence wag'e. Mr. Green held that under the privileges the lumber -industry would receive under the Act in respect of cooperation and exemption from the anti-trust liws, it would be feasible to raise the standard of living and the pur,chasing power of the lumber communities.
W. C. Ruegnitz, Portland, Oregon, President of the Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen, recommended a .4Ghour mill and a 48-hour logging maximum in his territory, and 42fc per hour on the basis of 36 hours actual employment. The "4 L" is an organization 9f employers and employees which pools and adjusts the labor problems of the mitls in Washington and Oregon'
, Dr. R. C. Weaver, of the Negro Industrial League, speaking for the negro lumber industry employees,- advocated a minimum wage of 50 cents an hour and a 4o-hour week.
, He said that one-fourth of the laborers in the lumber in;dustry are negro.es.
presented the need of price protection if the code were to be a practical success. He said that of all unfair methods the worst is destructive price competition, which results in periodic dissipation of forest resources, the destruction of equities and values and harsh reductions in wages. Control of production would not meet the situation, he said. Minimum prices must be based on costs. A basis of minimum selling prices by items, based upon the weighted average cost of production as proposed under the code must be established.
A feature of the hearings has been the testimony of Wm. Denman, San Francisco, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Coos Bay Lumber Company. Mr. Denman spoke in opposition to proposed price control formulas and also to the West Coast 4O and 48-hour week labor schedule. He declared that as that schedule had long been in effect nothing would be accomplished toward the increase of employment in line with the objectives of the Industry Recovery Act.
Harry T. Kendall, Chairman of the Trade Practice Committee of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, explained the trade practices supplement to the code. These trade practi'ces, he said, represented the practical experience of the industry over many years. "Little stability can be hoped for in this highly competitive industry", said Mr. Kendall, "marketing a product standardized as to grade and size from thousands of mills and through thousands of distributors, without an enforceable set of trade practice rules which wilL not unnecessarily restrict, but will make all who play the game, play it fairly and openly with equal rights and opportunity for the same .classes of producers, distributors and consumers."
The hearings on Monday and Tuesday of this week were mainly given up to statements by various objectors to the supplementary divisional codes. Mr. Denman testified again at length; Sam Sells, Johnson City, Tenn., made some objections in behalf of a group of hardwood flooring manufacturers, and Calvin Fentress of Chicago, arguing for recognition of timber holding and financing, urged in the formulation of any code for the lumber and timber products industries that consideration be given by the Administration to non-operating owners of standing timber and asked that these owners, both large and small, be included in the code and be provided with the necessary means of parti,cipation.
Walter S. Johnson, representing the newly formed association of California White & Sugar Pine manufacturers, supported the lumber code but asked for recognition under it as a California division separate from Western Pine.
A. W. Fairhurst, representing 123 small tie mills in the Northwest, submitted a separate 'code for that industry.
A. T. Smith, Jr., representing the National Fixture Manufacturers Association, objected to the inclusion of the wood rvorking industries with the lumber code. He said that the schedule of hours and wages was unsatisfa,ctory. Objections were also voiced by George J. Leonard, of the Manufacturing Woodworkers Association of New York, Justin .(Continued on Page.24)-
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Protest and recommendations of the Coos Bay Lumber Company were filed on July 24, L933 with the Administrator of the National Industrial Recovery Act by William Denman, a director of the company, at the lumber code hearings held in Washington.
Objection to the Code is based on the hours of labor and the minimum wage of 22f cents an hour, or $10'80 per week of 48 hours, as unfair competition to West Coast forest products where the timber is heavily taxed. They propose 5 working days of 6 hours each in sawmills and 6 working days of 6 hours each in logging camps, at a minimum wage of 50 cents per hour. As to the effect of the 6 hour proposal on unemployment in the Douglas fir region, they state no one can accurately forecast what the aggregate volume of future orders will be but according to the best available estimate it takes 16 hours' labor to produce 1,00O feet of fir lumber, that is, 2 men working one 8-hour shift, or 2 Z/3 men working one 6-hour shift which would require 33 l/3% more men at wages substantially above those now being paid. In 1930, the company states, all of their men were working steadily 48 hours a week at a minimum wage of 50 cents an hour, or $24 per week, and the adoption of the Code proposal would result in the minimum weekly income of loggers being reduced 331/3% and millmen 37%% as compared with 193O'
To efiectuate their 6-hour day proposal for maximum hours and minimum wages in the Douglas fir region, the company says, would require immediate protection against other species of lumber manufactured at low wages, and high miximum hours per week as proposed by-the Code, alJo protection may be necessary against invasion of our domestic markets.
Under Control of Production, objection was made on the ground that quotas for the units of the West Coast fir industry will be relatively small, because the footage should be -divided among all the mills, also that they include lumber for export. If the Administrators are ready to face the execution of mandatory quota provisions in the codes, the company offered the following recommendations for quota fixing: (a) that the full hourly capacity of each sawmill in the industry be ascertained and reported to each member of the industry, (b) that when the regional quota for domestic sale has been established, -each sawmill which desires to so operate be given the right to operate at full hourly capacity for exactly the same number of hours (during p&iod for producing the-r-eglonll quota) as every othel iawmill in the region which desires to so ooerate. and (c) that there be added to the domestic quota tlie amount of 'bona fide foreign orders taken for cutting or sale from stock, provided, (1) that if not exported the addition to the domeltic quota be withdrawn' and (2) that production incidental to cutting foreign orders but not ixported be not included in the addition to the quota.
Price fixing even under Government supervision was obiected to as this means Government sanction and super'niriott, and if applied to lumber will have to be applied to.all the thousands of industries of the country.
If price fixing is insisted upon, the company recommended that'each producer be required to publish a price list (exclusive of export offerings) estimated by.him to average at least his immediate cost of production (fixed charges to be prorated over annual single- shift-capacity), which price list shall be adhered to until publicly changed' and increased each month if found to average less than cost durine the previous month.
"Protest was made against the failure to place labor and consumer representatives onthe Emergency National
McAghon, Master Carpenters' Association of New York City, and FI. G. Klopp, in behalf of the woodworking factories of the Inland Empire.
E. J. Curtis, a member of the Emergency National Committee, supported the code, speaking for the millwork industry which he said employed 90,000 men normally, paying wages of $116,000,00O a year, expending $296,000,000 annually for materials and turning out products valued at $553,000,000.
A. Noral of Seattle, representing the National Lumber Workers Industrial lJnion, asked that a minimum wage of 55 cents an hour and a 30-hour week be written into the code.
Mark E. Reed. member of the Emergency National Committee, testified as to labor conditions in the West Coast industry and des'cribed the present unrest and the strike,in the Grays Harbor district due to the uncertainty of labor as to the "new deal". He believed the situation might be helped if the Industrial Recovery Administration would issue a statement urging ne,cessity of cooperation between employers and workmen and urging all workmen to keep employed at a reasonable wage until the details of a definite program might be completed.
Some objections were presented to the rules of Fair Trade Practice on the ground of restricting the wholesalers' field of ,customers, and shipment practices.
Hearings were adjourned Wednesday night for the time being by Mr. Cates, who recommended that the code-drafting committee take. further action in the refinement and development of the code, in the light of the information developed at the hearings and that the code be completed for presentation as soon as possible.
The Orange County Lumbermen's Club will hold their next golf tournament at the Lakewood Country Club, Long Beach, on Wednesday afternoon, August 16, 1933. Lunch and dinner will be served at the club. All lumbermen are invited to attend.
Committee and on all quota, price fixing and other committees affecting labor and employment. They recommended that such representation be provided for in the Code.
Further protests were made against the Code on the ground that there are no specific provisions for publicity to the members of the industry controlled by the codes, to labor and to the public. Objection was based on the ground that the codes constitute the Articles of Co-Partnership enforced by criminal law upon competitors and that the affairs of these code-controlled industries should have full publicity. They recommended that the Code should be revised to the end that each one of the partners affected by quotas or price fixing or anything else should have the right to full access of all his partners' figures affecting such inter-partnership relationship.
On July 27, the company filed an additional brief with the Administrator, which confined itself to three subjects and their relationship to the Douglas fir lumber business. in which the company is engaged; maximum hours of labor and minimum wages, restriction of production, and
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The pi'ctures reproduced here show the prize winning commercial entry of the Stanislaus Lumber Company, Modesto, in the Modesto Fourth of July "all horse and mule" parade.
The event was to serve the twofold purpose of celebrating the opening of a new highway bridge across the Tuo-
L. "Dick" Ustick, of the Stanislaus Lumber Company, says: "The County was combed from Atlanta to the sea for any kind of an animal that had a tail and a mane. Stage coaches, buggies, surreys, barouches, buckboards, hayra,cks and header wagons were the vehicles-de-luxe usually represented by Packards and Fords. Ten gall.on hats, chaps,
lomne river at Modesto, and a weir dam beneath the bridge to form a lake suitable for boating and water sports. A crowd estimated at 50,000 saw the parade, which was headed by Governor James Rolph, Jr. Writing in his usual breezy style about the big event, R.
crinolines and sunbonnets were the predominant habiliments. The parade was a rootin', tootin', bu,ckin', snortin' success, and the villagers are still talking it over.
"In the pictures the figure in the buggy with the derby, linen duster and buttonhole flower is not Si Slocum out to call on the Widow Smithers. That is Jim Gartin traveling incognito or sumpin'. The figure in the other picture with the mules is yours truly, y.t. being the one with the mustache. Note old bells on hames of near shavetail. The other, a skittish devil, shied from under his bells before the picture was taken."
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price fixing. They reiterated that the proposed 4O-hour week in sawmills and 48-hour week in logging camps are so nearly the universal practice today and that no noticeable change in unemployment will result. They recommend a 30-hour week in sawmills and 3Ghour week in loggirig camps, and a $15.00 minimum weekly wage for sawmill workers who suffer interruptions of employment because of market conditions, and $18.00 for loggers who suffer interruptions from both market and climatic conditions.
Restricted production spells less employment, the company states. They voice no objection to voluntary restrictions as distinguished from enforced restrictions under authority of criminal statutes.
They state that no purpose of the Act is aided by price fixing and that no additional employment will result therefrom; the only true basis of unfair competition in the lumber business is found in wage differentials, both intraregional and inter-regional. Standardize the minimum wages in each region, with afair relationship between inter-regional scales, and prices will quickly adjust themselves, the company states. They voice no objection to voluntary price fixing as distinguished from enforced price fixing under authority of criminal statutes.
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Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Smith of Los Angeles had as their guest the last two weeks in July, Mr. Smith's father, L. S. Smith of Hearne, Texas.
Herbert Berry, formerly of the Progressive Lumber Co., Livermore. is now with the Oakland Lumber Co., Oakland.
S. C. Hooper, S. C. Hooper Lumber Co., Los Angeles, has returned from the Orient where he spent the past several months looking over conditions in Hawaii, Philippine Islands, China and Japan. He reports that he had a pleasant visit with Tom Dant in Manila, and Carl Seitz in Shanghai.
Stanley Gustafson, Sierra Mill & Lumber Co., Sacramento, has returned from a month's trip by automobile to the Middle West, where he visited the World's Fair at Chicago. He is a son of .Fred Gustafson, one of the owners of the company.
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J. G. Ferguson, president of the Clovis Lumber Co., Clovis, is on a vacation trip in the Northwest. Mr. Ferguson accompanied by his family drove to San Francisco, where he boarded the steamer West Cactus of the McCormick Steamship Company's South American service, taking his ,car along. He will spend some time visiting Port Ludlow and Port Gamble where he spent a number of years in the employ of Pope & Talbot, and'will make the return trip from Seattle on the McCormick steamer Emergency Aid.
R. F. "Dick" Hammatt, former secretary-manager of the California Redwood Association, was a recent San Francisco visitor. Mr. Hammatt is now assistant regional forester in charge of public relations, with headquarters at Missoula, Montana. He is making a tour of the various regional forestry of6ces,'and is traveling by air, having flown from Portland to San Francisco. He left San Francisco by plane August 6 for Washington, making stops at regional offices on the way. While in San Francisco Mr. Hammatt found time to look up some of his many friends in the Redwood industrv.
Arch Towen, manager of the Grass Valley Lumber Co., Grass Valley, Calif., is on the sick list. Ray Miner, formerly manager of the Grenfell Lumber Co. at Grimes, is in charge during his absence
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