Lumber Company Wins Prize in July Fourth Parade

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."

Files Protest at Code Hearings

(Continued f.rom Page 24) 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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