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LOS ANGF'IF.S CAL., OCTOBER I, 1937

The Strike Situation

Portland, Ore., Sept. 27.-Portland sawmill operators. in a statement issued "to settle any argument as to the effectiveness of the A. F. of L. boycott," said today lttmber orders totaling 3,500,000 feet have been cancelled since local mill employees affiliated with the C.I.O. August 14.

The business, Morris Jones, Jones Lumber Company, spokesman for the employers, said, is going to Tacoma, the lower Columbia River, I:orest Grove and Oregon coast mills.

"These mills are op,erating with A. F. of L. employees and are continuing to run," Mr. Jones said.

San Francisco, Sept. ?A.-A teamsters' blockade of the San Francisco waterfront, called in an A. F. of L.C. I. O. jurisdictional dispute, was lifted tonight, officials of the San Francisco chapter, International Teamsters' Union, A. F. of L. affiliate, announced.

The officials said they had agreed to a "truce" in response to a request of California farmers and out of respect to the welfare of the people of San Francisco.

The teamsters declared the blockade September I in a controversy with the C. I. O. longshoremen over which labor group should control inland warehousemen whom the longshoremen had organized.

Action of the teamsters in lifting the blockade came shortly after they had abandoned massed demonstrations on the rvaterfront. Tonight's conciliatory action, it was believed, obviated the threatened spread of the blockade to other Pacific Coast ports

The situation at Portland seems to be about the same as it was two weeks ago, and the jurisdictional controversv bet'iveen the A. F. of L. and C. I. O. for control of the sawmill workers continues. As rve g'o to press, it is reported that only one sawmill there is working.

There has been no interference of the lumber movernent at Los Angeles harbor due to the A. F. of L.-C. I. O. disPute' :tr :r :r

The West Coast Lumbermen's Association. in its netvs release of September 25, says:

Practically no change is shown in the operating and marketing positions of the West Coast lumber industry in the week ended September 11 from the mill reports of recent weeks. The total production and orders reported by 177 down and operating mills to the West Coast Lumbermen's Association are approximately the same as those reported in the week ended September .1. the last full five-day week. This indicates, according to lumbermen, a continuation of the slorver market trend noticeable for the past sixty days. Usually, according to lumbermen, by late August the summer slack is replaced with the fall buying and moderate increases in both production and orders usually occurs early in September. With the sales and shipments to the Orient entirely stopped, San Francisco Bay area closed to lumber arrivals by rvater and slack trade in Southern California and Atlantic Coast areas, West Coast lumbermen are Dessimistic over the immediate future. Over a number of weeks more lumber has been produced than sold rvhile order files have been progressively decreasing; with more sellers than buyers, prices have declined..Some individual mills have attempted to meet the situation by reducing production while others have been forced to close. Should the present slump continue further reductions in production are anticipated by lumbermen.