\(/est Coast Trustees Vote Lumber Group Asks Elimination

11 to I to Retain Prices

A vote of 11 to 8 in favor of retaining the price fixing provision of the lumber code r,vas given by tl.re trustees of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association at a meeting held in Portlan<l, September 25.

About 500 Washington and Oregon lumbermen who attended the meeting by invitation of the trustees expressed their views on the minimum price situation, the majority denouncing price fixing as intolerable and unworkallle'

It was stated at the meeting that more than 250 Oregon and Washington mill owners representing more than half the hourly production allocation of the Douglas Fir region had signed petitions asking the board to advocate discontinuance of the price fixing provision of the lumber code.

Following the vote on price fixing, 12 lumber companies petitioned the board to hold a special meeting in Tacoma to determine "whether the present ofifrcers and trustees fairly represent that which is for the best interest of the association, and rvhether it is advisable to continue the existence of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association."

It was decided to hold a special meeting in Tacoma late in October or early in November.