Bulleted Between ClO, AFOL and NLR4 Pacific Lumber Industry in Tough Spot

The labor situation has the lumber industry from San Diego to Vancouver all a-quiver at this moment. It started in Portland, Oregon, when the crews of seven big mills joined the CIO and the local AFOL unions in that city promptly picketed them, and boycotted their products. So the mills shut down. It is reported that they are threatened with prosecution under the Wagner Act for locking out their CIO crer,r's. They have had the unique experience of being picketed by both CIO and AFOL. The seven mills are still shut down, all AFOL unions refusing to handle any CIO made lumber, either in Portland or elsewhere.

It is reported that one mill in the Northwest had the unique experience of being picketed by three labor organizations at the same time, the CIO, AFOL, and the 4L.

At Tacoma the crew of one of the biggest sawmills voted to join CIO. It rvas immediately picketed by AFOL and closed down. In a few days it started operations, the report being rife that the company had been ordered to run or be prosecuted for locking out its CIO crew. So it started, but the AFOL unions have announced, it is reported, a nationwide boycott of the products of the mill. In Los Angeles the AFOL labor leaders stated that they

California Strike News Affecting Lumber

In Los Angeles workers in the various furniture factories have voted to strike. but the date has not been set.

In San Francisco where plasterers and hod carriers have been on strike for several weeks, the plasterers have reduced their demand from $1.75 per hour to $1.66, and the hod carriers, who have been asking $1.50 an hour, have agreed to a like reduction. No other developments.

An agreement has been signed between-the Buikling Trades Council and the Building Trades Employers' Association and kindred organizations in San Francisco that is a movement toward permanent peace. The agreement sets up a joint board of 14 members, 7 union and 7 employers, to assist in settlement of any dispute, and provides for arbitration in all disputes over wages, hours, and working conditions.

Mills To Reopen

Portland, Ore., Aug. Z8.-Seven Portland sawmills closed since August 16, when they were picketed by A. F. of L. building trades council pickets, will resume operation August 30. The way Ior the reopening of the mills was paved by a truce between union forces of the A. F. of L. and the C. I. O. which employes and employers hope will become permanent.

Under its terms 2,500 men will go back to work pending outcome of further peace negotiations to be directed by Charles W. Hope, regional director of the National Labor Relations Board.

would make every effort to prevent ships from carrying the products of the mill, and that AFOL unions everywhere would refuse to touch its products.

In Los Angeles AFOL labor leaders asked the Los Angeles Lumber and Allied Products Institute to notify its members that the AFOL carpenter's unions will not handle or touch any lumber made by CIO crews, and that furthermore they will boycott any lumber yard that handles CIO lumber. Much concern has been expressed among the Los Angeles lumber people over this announcement.

In San Diego it is reported a local sawmill crew voted to go CIO, and the product of the mill was immediately boycotted by the local AFOL unions.

It is reported that the trouble in the Northwest is so far practically confined to the Portland and Tacoma districts, it being evident that tests are to be made in those places to determine what the future shall develop.

It rnust be remernbered that in none of the cases mentioned are the mills in any way mixed in the controversy. They are not resisting the unionization of their men, and are paying the wages and working the hours and conditions prescribed by the unions. They are simply caught in the battle between the two union organizations.

N. L. M. A. HOLDS EXECUTIVE MEETING IN MINNEAPOLIS

Plans for continued improvement and extension of the merchandising and research facilities of the lumber indus= try were laid by the Executive and Advisory Committees of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, meeting in a three-day session at the Curtis Hotel, Minneapolis, July 8, 29 and 30. The gathering of over fifty lumberrnen from all'sections of the country r,r'as welcomed at its opening meeting by Mayor George E. Leach, following which the committee discussed proposals for consolidating and further advancing the lumber industry position in the fields of merchandising and engineering research. The meetings were presided over by N.L.M.A. President Walter B. Nettleton. Seattle, Washington.

Annual State Lumber Meeting In Del Monte In November

The annual meeting of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association will be held at Del Monte again, at some date in November to be decided upon by the executive committee. This was decided upon at a special meeting of the officers and directors and secretaries held August 28 at the El Encanto Hotel in Santa Barbara. (Report of this meeting will be in our next number.)

Unsold Lumber At

Unsold lumber at Los 15,7&,W feet, as against 274,W on the 12th.

L. A. HARBOR INCREASES

Angeles harbor August 26 was 14,031,000 on the 19th, and 12,-