The California Lumber Merchant - October 1933

DOUGLAS FIR SPRUCE HEMLOCK PONDEROSA PINE . PORT ORFORD CEDAR SHINGLES LATH CREOSOTED LUMBER and PILING FIR PLYWOOD PHILIPPINE MAHOGANY ALDER -

S. S. "Point Loma"

S. S. "San Diego"

RED RIVER "paurBunyan's" CALIF0RNIA PINES

CATIFORI{IA IYHITE PINI anil SUGAR PINE

"Extra quality, -- grade for grade. "

There is no substitute for the "old fashioned pine" characteristics that have become a tradition in American architecture. This applies to both their structural and decorative values. For the rugged interior of the vacation cabin, club or hotel; for the dignified and classical atmos' phere of enameled panels and delicate mouldings, or the knottY Pine of Early American restorations, Red River California Pine products meet the most exacting requirements.

Quality may be the keynote rather than price; on the other hand, econ' omy and first cost may be the vital factors. In either case Red River California Pines fill the specification.

Plywood wall panels in [notty or clears; mould'ing, siding or trim have the texture that takes stains, paints or enamels economically and the everlasting durability and freedom from distortion that reduces upkeep to the minimum.

A good pine for the builder to buy, is a good pine for the dealer to sell.

Tflh.re. f.rr,llrs. f,flIrr R. \tr'..stDh[1. li(.rrt & H:lss' .lrchltects. Plyrvood ilnd lurrber by I'HE ll.l)D ltlvltlt LUMIlItlt ClolttPANY.

Are you prepared for the PROFITS AHEAD?

Profits are going to the lumber dealer whose yard is well stocked in readiness for increasing business on a rising market. A well stocked yard will also build a continued reputation of customer confidence.

McCormick offers you qudity lumber any dimension, dependably fast service and reasonable prices. See the McCormick man without delay. Direct serrrice from the forest to your yards.

461 Market Street San Franciro Phone DOuglaa 2561

117 Vest 9th Sreet Lor Angeles, Calif. Phone TRinity 5241

*Advertisements appeaf in alternate isgue.

Acsociated Lumber Mutuals ----------------------------2t

Bootstaver.Burns Lumber Co. ---------------_--_21

Booth.Kelly Lumber Co.

Brice & Ffoward Trucking Co. _____-________-__-_19

California Panel & Veneer Co --------_-___--J.B.C.

California Redwood Ascociation, The ---------*

California Wholecale [,rhgs1 Association-___ r

Celotex Company, The Chamberlin & Co., V/. R. -- -- __-___________-.21

Cooper Lumber Co., V. E. -----------------------_--- 7

Cooe Bay Lumber Co. ------------------------------------ 5

Dallas Machine & Locomotive Vorlc ---------ll

Dolbeer & Cason Lumber Co. --------------__-2l

Flammond Lumber Co. ------------------'--------------21

Hill & Morton, fnc. ---------------_----2l

Holmee'Eure&a Lumber Co. ------------_-------21

Ffoover, A. L. --------- -----------____21

Koehl & Soncl fnc., Jno. W. ---------------_____2t

Laughlin, C. J. -------- _-----___21

Lawrence.Philipr Lunber Co. ----------____-_O.F.C.

Long-Bell Lumber Sales Corporation Loop Lu.mber C,ompany .-.--__lI

Lumbermentc Service Arrcciation

J. E" MARTIN Mrarrlry Edtc

THE CALIFOR}.IIA

,;, LUMBERMERCHANT cfrcufatroo

Manager

J*kDionne, Ptblishu

W. T. BLACK 6{5 Leavmwcth 3t. Su Fruclrco PRoopcct ttl0

Incomated udr tte taws of Califcnt'a Southern Offico J. C. Diunc, pt"". rnl-f"J*.; i. E. Martiq Vie-Prea.; A- C. Merrym, Jr.' Seev. 2nd Natioul BiDk Bldg. Publiched the lct and l5th of eacb moth at Huatm, Texar

A. C. MERRYMAN ru-r-20 Cenral Butlding,-roa-W"it Si*U qt*"t,-Lc Anrleles, CqL,Jeteehm, VA'nd&e {505 Advcrtlelngr Murarcr -Eii!*a-l" s"Zl""a''u*dfirT$"1"1t"",*"if'"Pfr*l1:tlrft ofiice at

Los ANGELE5, cAL., ocToBER t5, t933 "t""Tti'J;u5il;: st@

How Lumber Looks

Lumber ondeis booked at the mills dudng the week ended Septenrber 30, Irgtr, were higher than during any -week since mii-Yuly and production waE itightly above that of the-previous week- accordini to reportE to tf," National Lumber Manufac' turers Associaion ftlm regional associations covering tlre operations of 11106 hardwood and softwood mills. Production titata 1921164,000 feet; shipments 195,306,fl)0 feet and ordets 187,A2'OOO f.eet-

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A total of 376 down and operating mills which reported to the West Coast Associatiotr for the period ended September 30 produced 861906,o43 fieet

' N.w business reported by 714 mills for the same week was 8811251568 fea ajainst a prcduction o1 81,723,312 feet and rhiomerrts of gr,oi5,o74 f@t. Current sales wete over produc' tion by E36qo, and shipmenb were ovet the out-Put AV \'!?%' Ordeta boo[ed fot the week were 2rg77,O0o f*t, v )'5Wo, over the preceding week.

The Western Pine Association for the week ended Septem' 6et VO reported new business for 132 mills as 44r843rOOO f-e*; shipments 44,15E,0OO fleert, and" producftion 47,l72r00o feet; Orders wee'5/s-below production, and shipments werc 6ls below the cut.

New Manager of Chicago Office

Sherman A. Bishop, who recently left San Francisco to make his headquarters at the Chicago office of the Union Lumber Co., has been appointed manager of that office' Howard J. Abbott, for some years in the sales department in the head office at San Francisco, is now in charge of the work formerly handled by Mr. Bishop.

Leo T. Dernier

Leo T. Dernier of Dallas, Texas, was accidently killed on Friday, October 6. He was forty. years of age' Mr. Dernier was associated with his brother, Floyd Dernier, of the Lumbermen's Service Association, for many years both in California and Texas and was well known to the lumber and building material trade.

He is survived by his wife and one daughter of Dallas; a brother, Floyd Dernier of Los Angeles; and five sisters, Eda, Hazel, Nettie, Lena and Gertrude Dernier, all of Los Angeles. Miss Eda and Miss Lena Dernier and their

funeral services

Unsold stocks on the public docks at Los Angeles harbor totaled 5l2roo} feet on Oitober 9. Cargo arrivals at Loc An' geles harbor for the week ended October 7 tol;aLe{ 8'52E'000 Ieet which included 15 cargoes of Fir carrying 7r79rrOOO feet' and 2 cargoes of Redwood with 735r00O feet. 55 vessels were operatingln the coastwise lumber service on Octobet 4; 50 vessels were laid tn.

Latest reports give California 151 C. C. C. winter camps' Present ldtiot t Tor 93 camps have been apptoved for winter work and alterations will be- made to make them suitable for winter weather. 58 new camPo will be built. The alterations and new construction wilt require approximately 10t000t00o feet of lumber besides other building materials. All the campg will be equipped with electric lighting systems. Most of these camps will be in operation It OT"O.t*15 or sooner.

It is estimated that atout S25'000'000 will be expended within the next sixty days on building materials, equipment-and labor in providing'the 1466 C. C. C. campc with suitable wintet quar' t"t It adJition to 25O'000,000 or 3001000'000 feet of lumbet, there will be an enormous quantity of millwork; approximately 261000 doors and 175'000 windows will be used in these camps' i(" d"ott will require seven miles of a single variety of moulding strip. Whiie the lumber.and millwork will coct around t1o,00o'5oo, ?uily as much more wilt be elpend{ on othet """"rroiy matetials, equipment and,labor. About 45'000 9arp' entersr other skilled **t-"tt and common laborers will be emoloved. Manv contracts have been let and thousands of ""rio"i" of -.t#ak are or will soon be on their way to the various camFl.

Change o[ Policy

Eftective October l, W.J. Mulligan & Co. of San Francisco and Los Angeles have changed their policy and in the future will act as wholesalers exclusively.

The company will no longer represent any of the northern mills as mill representatives, suitable arrangements having been concluded with the group of mills formerly represented in California.

VISITS NORTHWEST BY SKY ROUTE

Guy E. Smith, general sales manager, Chas' R' McCormick Lumber Co., San Francisco, will return October 16 from a week's business trip to Seattle and Portland' Mr' Smith traveled north by plane and will return the same way.

.ngphew, Locklin Dernier, attended the which were held at Dallas on October 10.

State Retailers Will Hold Annual Convention at San Francisco---Oct. 26-28, 1933

The California Retail Lumbermen's Association will hold their annual convention at the Whitcomb Hotel, San Francisco, on October 26,27 and 28, 1933.

The principal item of business will be the Lumber Code and the committee is arranging for some able speakers to discuss this topic. Thursday afternoon, October 26, will be devoted to registration, committee meetings, and will give the dealers an opportunity to visit with their lumbermen friends and get information regarding business condi-

HENRY M. HINK VISITS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Henry M. Hink, Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co., San Francisco, was a recent visitor at the company's Los Angeles office where he conferred with Ed. Seward, their Southern California representative. Mr. Hink also spent a few days at San Diego.

ATTEND CODE MEETINGS IN WASHINGTON

Walter Scrim, Findlay Millar Timber Co., and Roy Barto, Cadwallader-Gibson Co., Inc., of Los Angeles, left for Washington on October first to attend the Lumber Code meetings which began on October 4.

tions in other parts of the state. All the business sessions will be held on Friday, October 27, and the committee is arranging for an interesting program for that day. On Saturday morning, October 28, there will be a meeting of the new State Board of Directors; there will be no Convention session Saturday morning.

There will be no dinner dance or entertainment and the convention will be a strictly business meeting from beginning to end.

RETURNS FROM NORTHWEST TRIP

Howard Clark, Rio Linda Lumber Co., Rio Linda, Calif., has returned from a trip to Portland, Ore., where he visited friends and called on a number of the mills. Mr. Clark made the trip north on the passenger boat, "General Sherman," taking his automobile along, and made the return trip to California by machine. Mrs. Clark accompanied him on the trip.

JOrNS WHOLESALE ASSOCIATION

F. M. Slade, Petroleum Securities Building, Los Angeles, has become a member of the California Wholesale Lumber Association.

V.sabond Editorials

Bv Jack Dionne

If at any time since he took office there has been in my mind any faint doubt as to the true greatness of Franklin Roosevelt, that doubt disappeared as a mist-cloud before the glare oJ the noonday sun when he appeared before the American Legion convention and made that heroic speech. For it'WAS heroic. He had the courage, the understanding, and the magnificent appeal to put that message over. I doubt if any other President since George Washington could have accomplished it. The charm, and the convincing greatness of the man, alone made such a demonstration possible.

I long for good things for the lumber industry as unsel'fishly as the young lady who was saying her prayers before retiring at night. She said: "Oh Lord, I don't ask anything for myself, but please send father a good son-in-law."

For when the lumber irrl.rJrr-."ts-r eat; when it prospers-I prosper; and when it starves-I take up another notch in the old belt, too. And, Oh Lord, it doesn't seem like just four years; it seems like four centuries since those "poke chops an'candied yam days."

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Which reminds me of the following determination I have made, from which I shall NOT be turned: That when this depression is over there shall be printed and framed under glass and given a permanent place upon the walls of the offices of this publication a list of those devoted friends whose continued patronage through times of doubt and despair have made the continued life of this publication possible; and without whom this journal would long since have passed into the discard. Yes sir ! And with that list there shall be shown a declaration of my gratitude. And a copy of same shall be done in order that in the halcyon days that are to follow, I shall not be in danger of committing the too human sin of forgetting. Ingrate I am NOT ! And that fact I propose to demonstrate in very public fashion, when the time comes. You shall see. **,1.

Regardless of your opinion as to what the condition of business generally may be at this time, you will have to admit that the strike business is booming. ***

"Whatr" I asked a wise man, "is a 'parlor socialist'?" "I am not certain that I know," he replied. "But I imagine that a parlor socialist is a man who would plow under ripe cotton in a world where millions of people are naked, and destroy young hogs and sows in a world where millions are hungry." "That," said I, "has all the earmarks of a dirty dig." :r ,.< :N<

I have never seen a time when the publicly and privately expressed opinions of all men on the pertinent things of the hour seemed so widely at variance. You know what I mean. *rr*

Well, folks, looks like we've got pretty near everything we need right now in the lumber business. We've got a code, we've got rules and regulations, we've got allowables, we've got minimum prices, and we've got the Government in partnership with us in business. Now all on earth we need to make us happy and our business prosper is a few million people with a desire to buy lumber, and the money to pay for it. That's really all we need.

Naturally there comes to mind the famous remark of General Sherman to the effect that a better population and more rain was all that Hell needed. Which reminds me of what a famous old Southern stage actor said to General Sherman once. Years after the civil war ended this actor, playing in a Southern city, was told that General Sherman was in the audience. When he appeared for a curtain talk he called attention to the distinguished visitor. "I am proud to have General Sherman here tonight," he said. "We Southern folks think General Sherman is a mighty fins rnsn-s little careless with fire, perhaps, but a fine man.t'

I'll tell you now how to end the depression-pronto. Offer prospective and desirous home owners homes on the same terms the Government is offering to finance public works, that is, thirty years to pay at 4 per cent interest. You wouldn't need that length of time. Sell them homes at 4 per cent interest with fifteen years to pay, and two million people will accept the proposition. It wiU take ten million people a year to build these homes, and countless other millions to produce and deliver the materials. And the Government would get most of its money back. How about it? Wouldn't it work?

Heard a grand selling story the other day. Two farm

Business MUST be improving. Every day we read of strikers walking ofr their iobs. A year ago they had no jobs to walk off of. And many of these same strikers were saying to themselves a year ago-"If I ever DO get an- wagons, each presided over by a farm woman' were side by other job I'rn going to stick to it the rest of my life." The side in a farmers' market. Both wagons were loaded with memory of man is short. new potatoes. A shopper approached'and asked the near-

est farm wornan the price of potatoes. She answered that they were a dollar and a quarter a bag. ,,Goodness !,' exclaimed the shopper, "that's awfully high, isn't it?" ,.potatoes have gone up," replied the farm woman. The shopper passed on. {.*:F

But she stopped at the next wagon, and asked the price of potatoes. The farm woman had heard the other conversation, and she was ready. "These are specially fine potatoes, ma'am," she said. "They are the best potatoes for all sorts of eating that I know of. They're the small-eye type that save a lot of waste in peeling. The skin is unusually thin. A bag of these potatoes is a bag of food, not of potato skin and waste. In each bag you will find two sizes, large ones for boiling and smaller ones for baking. The baking size must not be too large, so that they will bake all the way through, quickly, and save gas. We wash all our potatoes before sacking them. They are ready to cook when they come out of the sack. And you don't buy any dirt. I am askirrg a dollar and a half a bag for themand thby're worth it." Now don't tell me that shopper didn't buy those potatoes.

When I first met Dick J".:J in the otd Arkansas days, he used to tell a story just like that about two apple raisers in Arkansas. One threw an apple to a prospect, and said, "Try it." The other polished the apple, and made a delightful sales talk about its quality, its color, its taste. and its usefulness, before handing it in distinctive manner to the prospect to bite.

Funny how an idea will worry some intelligent men ! I know men who almost have a fit every time they get hold of a new and interesting idea. They worry it like a cat worries a captured rnouse. They won't grab it and shake the living lights out of it. They just nibble it to death; nag it to pieces.

"Nobody ever got a wrecked truck out of a ditch by citing precedents," is credited to H. I. phillips. Right

enough. Nor did anyone ever get one out by repeating over and over "Everything's going to be all right." I'm often reminded of the big league baseball pitcher whose splendid ability was continually impeded by a high state of nervousness in time of stress. So he took a course of in_ struction in how to cure nervousness. The next time he was pitching and felt the high tension pressure coming on him, he began repeating his formula: .,I WILL be calm; I MUST be calm; I AM calm; GREAT GOD HOW CALM I AM !''

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Public opinion is largely a matter of prejudice, rather than fact. During the world war we raised our hands in horror at tales of German atrocities. Following the war that feeling dimmed. Many stories were denied. Many contradicted. Time heals wounds-softens memories. \Me have got to thinking we must have been mistaken about Germany. Today our suspicions are re-awakened. Germany is reported guilty of as deep hellaciousness today as during the world war. Most of us have decided that France was right when, at the making of the treaty of Versailles it was protested that France was too severe on Germany, France replied-..You don't know Germany." Today, as following the war, Germany denies many things. But the civilized people of the world reply-,.How can we believe what you SAY, when what you DO thunders in our ears?"

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Heard a great line the other day. We were discussing a certain man who has been developing a constantly growing ego, which he manifests in his business affairs by making himself difficult to approach, etc. You have to contact him through a series of secretaries, and other middle men and women. That's his idea of acting the big man. I re_ marked, in this conversation, that f had never met a really big man who was hard to get at; that it is the little man trying to act big that always pulls that stunt. Whereat one of my companions, an old railroad man, remarked: "Sure ! It's always that way. The smaller the station. the bigger the agent !"

9035

EASI 15TH STREET

Los Anseles - PR 5131

N. R. 4. !;f ,ti::"fr"*:'#*'itt"Htl*l; acceptlng the burden of lncreaced cost of opers1ii11.,,L 4ndr we are Gontlnul-ng our gtrt_ct practlce oi rcnderlng the very best of cervtce to the deaierc oi southern caffiI fornla on every concclyable ktnd oi hardwood and Gallfornla Plne.

W. E. COOPER LUMBER CO.

President Approyes Retail Lumber Code

The Code of Fair Competition for the Retail Lumber, Lumber Products, Building Materials and Building SP"cialties Trade was signed by President Roosevelt on October 3, 1933. The eode was submitted to the National Recovery Administration by the National Retail Lumber Dealers'-Association representing 32 Associations throughout the United States. -The Code became efiective October 13, 1933. The Code follows:

Code of Fair ComPetition for Retail Lumber, Lumber Products, Building Materials and Building SPecialties Trade

ARTICLE I-PURPOSES

To efiectuate the policies of Title I of the National Industrial neco".iv Aii, the foilowing provisions -are lubmitted as a Code of F"ir Coi"p.tiiion for the Lumber, Lumber -Products, ,Building M.ai.ri"ts, ""it Building Specialties Trade, and upon a-pprov.al by. the President, shall be the standard of fair competition tor thls trade'

ARTICLE II_DEFINITIONS

1. Lurnber, Lumber Products, Building Materials and Building Specialties.

T[; teil lumber, lumber products, building materials and buildine soecialties as used in this Code is broadly defined to include "iitt-"r. products used in building and construction work with the ibilowittg^.*.eptions, which are known to the public and trade.as builders supplies and are included in the code of Fair compettttotl for Dealers in Builders SuPPlies. - gii.t, Mortars, Casement and Steel Sash, C-ement "".d1:^ettt -F.oducts, Cement Pipe, Ceramic !.le, Clay .Roof Tile' Co--"" Brick, Cut Stone, Dampers and-Fireplace Ac-cessories, Oiiitt flt", Faie Brick, Fire Brick and Clav, Glazed--Str-uctural ilti, Cvp.u"l Products (except Qyos-t m- wallboard), H-o-llow iii;; ai;. and Lime Piodu*s, Mesh Reinforcement' Metal Littt a"a kindred products, Mineral Aggregatls, Mortar. and e.*""t Colors, M6tding Plasters, Roof and Flooring Slates, Sewer Pipe, Ffue Lining and other Clay -Products, Structural Terra Cotta and Waterproofing Compounds.

2. Dealer. -'F;;h;-purpose of administering t.his Code,.a dealer. is defined, bui *it6oui limitation, as a person who maintains an adequate a'd p.i"r""."t plant or piants which are proqerly equipped for service io the puUtii, with office, with storage-.yard-or-warehouse, kept opeu a"ri"L lu.inlss hours, with such handling facilities and sales service as are commensurate with the nature of the business, and who cariies a sufficient stock of lumber and building materials (for the pu1poi.1i rittl.g it retail in small or large quantities and not for his 6*tr "ontu-pfion) to supply the general requirements of the communlty.

3. Person. -'"p.i.o";; as used herein includes, without limitation, any individual, firm, partnership, corporation-. association, trust, trustee or receiver subject to the jurisdiction of this Code.

4. Emplovee. ' The ierm "employee" as used herein includes any..persoll emoloved bv anv enterprise engaged in sellirlg at retail lumler or i"#U.i piodu.i., building materiats or building.specialties as.herein defined in any capacity in the nature ot employee lrrespectlve ol the method of payment of his compensation.

5. Employer.

as used herein includes anyone for whose benefit such an employee is so engage4. ------is engaged.

ARTICLE III-JURISDICTION

All persons engaged in the buliness of selling to contracto.rs.. or ;;H;;;lfubei. iumber products, building materials and building consumers lumber, Droducts. buildine i t^ th" .rn.isioni of this Code and of collsuurcrJ lulrlusrr y.vusllet

population which towns are not part of a larger trading area.as ieiined in Article V, shall be for[y-eight ('E) per week; provid-ed at least sixty-six and two-thirds (66 2/3) per cent of the sales volume of siid dealers is to persons engaged in agriculture; and provided lurther that such employees may. work more than forty;ight (48) hours per week if plid time and a half (based. on. minim-um irourly wagl for the foity-hour week as provided in Article V) for all hours in excess of forty-eight (48).-

(.) Within each State persons- subject to tle jurisdiction of this Code shall comply with any laws of such State imposing more stringent requiriments regulating the ageof employees, - wages' houri ol woik. health, fire or general working conditions than are imposed by this Code.

(al Yald foremen shall be permitt-ed -to work u,p -to forty-four (4,i)'hours in any one week. Hours of labor be-yond-this maximum ire'to be paid ior on basis of time and one-half for every hour worked.

(e) The hours for truck drivers and their helpers shall not exceid'forty-four (44) in any one week except where contracts trow in efiect arrived at through collective bargaining are based on longer hours, In such lattei cases the hours shall not exceed fortyeigf,t (+8) in any one week and the -employers shall increase the hJurly'rate to the same proportion that the contract hours bears to forty-eight hours.

Empioye-rs shall not reclassify employees so as to defeat 'the purposes of the Act. '

The maximum number of hours shall be reviewed by the Code Authority three months from the effective date and if business conditions ivarrant it the weekly number of hours which employees shall work will be shortened so that employment may be spread further.

ARTICLE V-MINIMUM WAGES

The weekly wages of all employees rec-eivingmore. than the minimum wage specified in this Article shall not be reduced, notwithstanding -any- reduction in the number of working hours of such employees.

Excepi to night and Sunday wat-chmen, and subjec-t^^to^the exceptioni noted 5elow, employeis shall pay in cities -of 500'000 p-opulaiion or more not less ihan the minimum rate of wage per hour specified opposite the division in which such cities are located, nor liss than 3'cents per hour less than the minimum rate oI wage oer hour hereinbelow specified opposite each such division in cities Lf 1".. than 500,000 pofulation or more than 75.,000 population, nor less than 10 cents pir- hour less than the minimum rate -of w-age per hour specified opposite each such division in cities of less than 75,000 poput"tion, uniess such cities aie in a trade area as hereinafter'difined. 'For the purposes of this paragraph, population .ttilt le determined by referenie to the 1930 Federal Census. The minimum rate per hour herein provided for shall be applicable tothe immediate irade areas of cilies as defined by the Chamber of Commerce of such cities.

Division l. Alabama-35 cents per hour.

binirion 2. California-Northern Division, 45 cents per hour.

Division 3. North and South Carolina-35 cents per hour.

Division 4. Florida-35 cents per hour.

Division 5. Georgia-35 cents per hour.

Division 6. Illinois-45 cents per hour.

Division 7. Indiana-45 cents per hour.

Division 8. Kentucky-35 cents per hour.

Division 9. Lbuisiana-35 cents per hour.

Division 10. Lower Peninsula of Michigan-45 cents per hour'

Division 11. Eastern portion of Pennsylvania. sev,en -southern counties -of New Jersey, Delawarq, Maryland and the District of Cotumbia-45 cents per hour, except for Delaware, Maryland, and District of Columbia, which shall be 40 cents per hour'

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.rt"tt ti" subjecf to the provisiond of this Code and

iules and regulations -issued there.urrder and s.hall be the approved rules regulations issued thereuuder shall be i"-piti.a to adhere thereio under such penalties as may be prcscribed bv the law.

ARTICLE IV-HOURS OF LABOR

The maximum hours of labor of employees -or pers^qns subjec.t to tft. iuti.aiition of this Code shall not exceed fortv (4Q) pe1 w.e9k in any-of the forty-eight (48) States or the District of columbra' with ihe five exceptions noted below: "'il'l ""b-..ittit.t'"-ptoved in a managerial capacity who are paid thirtv-five ($35) dollars or more per week; outslde salesmen anc ;tsili ;;a 'S;;'d"y watchm-en, and branch vard managers, eaclr n.-"ritr vard to be restricted to one branch yard manager' --7t-t ih. -"*i-um hours of labor of employees-of dea (b) ;;;;G emplovees of dealers emprJii"g;;i;;;;'ih;"]*"-tzl persons in towris of less than 2500

Division 12. Mississippi-35 cents per hour.

Division 13. Colorado, Wyoming-40 cents per hour' New Mexico-35 cents Per hour.

Division 14. Nebraska-45 cents per hour'

Division 15. Fourteen northern counties of New Jersey-45 cents per hour.

Division 16. The City of New York-50 cents per hour.

Division 17. New York (except the City of New York), Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts. Connecticut, Rhode Island and McKean County, Pennsylvania-45 cents Per hour'

Division 18. Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa45 cents per hour.

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Division 19. Ohio-45 cents per hour,

Division 20. Western portion of Pennsylvania-45 cents per hour.

Division 21. Arkansas, Kansas. Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas35 cents per hour.

Missouri (except St. Louis and St. Louis County) -45 cents per hour.

Kansas-45 cents per hour.

Oklahoma-zl0 cents per hour.

Division 22. Tennessee-35 cents per hour.

Division 23. Texas-35 cents per hour.

Division 24. Utah-40 cents per hour.

Division 25. Virginia-35 cents per hour.

Divisiorr 26. Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, Nevada-40 cents per hour.

Division 27. West Virginia-35 cents per hour.

Division 28. Wisconsin and Upper Peninsula of Michigan-45 cents per hour.

Division 29. Cook County, Illinois-45 cents per hour.

Division 30. St. Louis and St. Louis County, Missouri-45 cents per hour.

Division 31. Arizona-35 cents per hour.

Division 32. California-Southern Division, 40 cents per hour.

Rates of wages for labor used in the handling and delivery of lumber and building material above the minimum provided in this Article within each metropolitan or urban area shall, as to all dealers in each respective area, be not less than such rates as shall be agreed upon by the majority of all dealers subject to this Code in each trading area, after the approval thereof by the Code Authority and by the Administrator.

Clerical and Office Employees

The weekly wage of clerical and office employees whose maximunr hours are forty (40), shall not be less than that provided by the hourly rates in Article V.

The weekly wage for clerical and office employees provided for by Paragraph (b) of Article IV shall be the same as employees whose maximum hours are forty (40) per week and provided that time and one-half shall be paid for hours in excess of forty-eight (48) and provided that no such employee shall receive less than $12 for such 48-hour week.

All oI the Above Rates Subject to Following Exceptions:

l. Office workers under nineteen (19) years of age and with less than six months experience, and persons partially disabled shall be paid not less than 75 per cent of the minimum wage herein specified; provided that the total number of persons so defined shall not exceed ten (10) per cent of the total number of yard, office and service employees.

2. Persons employed as provided for by Paragraph (b), Article IV, shall be paid not less than the minimum hourly rates for forty (40) hours and time and one-half for all hours in excess of forty- eight (48), provided that no such employee shall receive less than $12 for such forty-eight (48) hour week.

3. It is agreed that the rates hereinabove set forth establish a guaranteed minimum rate of pay regardless of whether the employee is compensated on the basis of a time rate or on a piece work rate. Each employer shall report to the Administrator adjustments made in his oiece rate schedule.

ARTICLE VI_CHILD LABOR

It is expressly provided that no employee under sixteen years of age shall be employed.

No employee under eighteen years of age shall be employed in handling lumber and building materials, nor employed as an opera- tor of or as an ofi bearer from any woodworking machinery.

ARTICLE VII_ADMINISTRATION

To further effectuate the policies of the Act, a Code Authority (which is referred to as the Code Authority) is hereby set up to cooperate with the Administrator in the administration of this Code.

1. Organization and Constitution of the Code Authority

' For the purpose of the administration of this Code, the National

Retail Lumber Dealers' Association shall establish and empower a suitalle agency herein referred tci as the Code Authority io assist the National Recovery Administration in administering the provisions of this Code. I-he Code Authority shall consist of one member from each of the constituent Divisions of the Association to be elected by fair and reasonable methods by the respective Divisions; it shall be empowered to elect two additional members at large. to the aforesaid Code Authority. The Administrator may appoint not more than three (3) non-voting members of said Code Authority to serve as his representatives thereon or as representa- tives of such other groups as he may see fit to designate.

The Code Authority shall establish Divisions of the lumber and building material trade and shall appoint appropriate agencies (as stated in Article VII, Section 3) for the administration of this Code in each Division or Subdivision; the Code Authority shall delegate to said agencies all necessary power and authority for the administration of this Code within the Divisions and Sub-Divisions including the adoption of Divisional and Sub-Divisional rules and regula- tions not inconsistent with this Code and subject to the appioval of the Administrator, but shall reserve and retain the power to administer the provisions of this Code.

The aforesaid Code Authority shall be empowered to act in res_pect of all_matlers before the Code Authority and within its juris- diction. The Code Authority shall have the powers and duties as provided herein, provided. however, that the aforesaid Code Authority shall reserve the power to make final recommendation as to any matters relating to the administration of this Code; and in addition thereto it shall:

(a) Make rules and regulations and interpretations, includine Rules of Fair Competition necessary for the administration of thii Code, which rules, regulations and interpretation shatl be subject to -the_approval .of the Administrator, and designate such agents and delegate such authority to them as may be necessary to effectuate the purposes and to administer the provisions of this Code.

(b) From time to time require such reports from Divisions as irr its judgment or in the judgment of the Administrator shall be n^ecessqy to advise it adequately of the administration and opera- tion of the provisions of this Code.

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(c_) Upon -complaint of interested Divisiorrs, or upon request of the Administrator or upon its own initiative make such inquiry and investigation as to the operation of the Code as may be necessary.

(d) The Code Authority shall be charged with the administra- tion of the _provision -'o_f this Code, and with the duties through agents or otherwise of hearing and adjusting complaints, considering proposals for amendment of this Code, making recommendations thereon, and otherwise administering its provisions.

(e) The Code Authority shall be empowered to consider and make a recommendation with respect to any breach of this Code or anv di or any dispute arising as a result of same. This Code Authoritv may if it sees fit cite any dealer operatins with its iurisdiction to operating its jurisdiction to the Administrator, for such action as the law may provide. The --l_ a,,Lr -,,tL

trrc Aqrrlrllrstrarul, luf sucrl acftun Ine law may provrce. lhe Code Authority shall empower and authorize each Division to maintain an Arbitration Committee of such number as it mav decide: such committee may include one person who is not an Aisociation member.- 1A.ny -breach of this Code or any dispute arising as the result of this Code within the jurisdiction of a Division-mav be referred to the Divisional Committee for consideration and reio-mendation. This Divisional Committee after full hearing and upon finding any dealer operating within the jurisdiction of said Division guilty of breach as reported may cite such dealer to the Administrator for such action as the law may provide.

(f) The Code Authority may delegate any of its authoritv to the Executive Committee hereinafter provided for.

(g) The provisions of Schedule A shall. so far as thev differ from provisions of this Code be controlling in Division 29.

2. Joint Dealers in Lumber and Buitding Supplies.

For the administration of this Code in the case of dealers in (Continued on Page 10)

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Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co., Montesano, Wash., announce the opening of their San Francisco sales office at l2O8-9 Fife Building, to serve the Northern California territory. The new omce is under the management of Floyd W. Elliott.

President Approves Retail Lumber Code

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lumber, lumber products, building materials and building specialties, whether in whole or in part, who are members of the National Federation of Builders Supply Association and who are not also members of the National Retail Lumber Dealers' Association, the Code Authority shall appoint as its agent and representative the same agent or representative as shall have been appointed by the Code Authority of the Builders Supply Trade,

3. Divisions.

For the purpose of the administration of this Code, the Code Authority shall divide the country into 32 Divisions. The Divisions for the Pacific Coast states are as follows:

Arizona-Lumbermen's Club of Arizona.

California (Northern Division)-California Retail Lumbermen's Association.

California (Southern Division)-California Retail Lumbermen's Association.

Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon and Nevada-Western Retail Lumbermen's Association.

The Code Authority may establish other Divisions and define the territories to be covered by them. Such Divisions shall be afforded representation on the Code Authority.

4. Failure to Perforrn"

If any established Division shall fail to perform its obligations as outlined herein, the Code Authority may upon complaint act as a Division Committee for the purpose of securing the adoption of standards and performance conforming to the provisions of the Code. Due advance notice shall be given to the Division or Divisions of such proposals and a reply requested. Division affected shall be notified of the action taken in the premises and shall thereafter promptly comply with such determination.

Proposals regarding matters affecting more than one Division may be initiated by any Division, and shall be submitted for consideration to the Code Authority. and its determination shall be binding upon such Division or Divisions.

5. Executive Committee.

The Code Authority shall appoint from its own membership, an Executive Comrnittee of five (5) members. The Executive Committee shall exercise such authority as may have been delegated to it by the Code Authority except that the Executive Committee shall not make recommendations for the amendment of this Code unless recommendations for such amendments have been approved in writing by two-thirds (2/3) of the members of the Code Authority.

The Executive Committee shall serve as the executive agency of the Code Authority.

Communications and conferences of the retail lumber and building material trade with the President or with his agents concerning the amendment of this Code or any of its provisions or any matters relating thereto may be through the Executive Committee.

6. Joint Interpretation Committees.

The Code Authority shall empower and authorize each diirision to create in cooperation with the appropriate division under the Code of Fair Competition for dealers in Builders Supplies, a Joint Interpretation Committee, with equal representation, of such number as the respective Divisions shall determine; this Committee shall be empowered to interpret the provisions of the trade practice rules of the Code of Fair Competition for Dealers in Builders Supplies and of this Code insofar as such rules affect dealers in lumber and building material. This Committee shall coordinate trade practice regulations of divisions and sub-divisions under the Codes of Fair Competition aforesaid wherever necessary. The interpretation and decisions of this Joint Committee shall be subject to appeal as hereinafter provided.

The Code Authority shall create a National Joint Interpretation Committee with equal representation in cooperation ,with the appropriate jurisdictional authority under the Code of Fair Competi tion for Dealers in Builders Supplies consisting of such number as the Code Authority of this Code and the jurisdictional authority under the Code of Fair Competition for Dealers in Builders Supplies shall jointly determine. This Committee shall review appeals made from determination of the joint interpretation committees created by the agencies of the respective Divisions as aforesaid. The decision of such Joint Interpretation Committee shall be subject to review as prescribed by the Administrator in accordance with law.

7. Reports and Expense.

In order that the President may be informed of the observance of the provisions of this Code and of the extent to which the declared policy of the National Industrial Recovery Act is made efiective in the lumber and building material trade, the Code Authority shall make such reports as the Administrator may require periodically or as often as he may direct. Persons subject to the jurisdiction of this Code shall at its request make to the Code Authority or to the respective Divisions such sworn or unsworn reports as the Code Authority deems necessary on volume of sales, value of

inventory, cost of doing business, number of employees, wage rates, hours worked, and other data pertinent to the purposes of this Code.

Any and all information furnished to the Code Authority shall be deemed confidential and shall not be divulged to any member of the industry except in summary but shall be available to the Administrator upon request or to the Code Authority or to any Divisional or Sub-Divisional agency where necessary to administer the provisions of this Code.

In addition to information required to be submitted to the Code Authority, there shall be furnished to Government Agencies such statistical information as the Administrator may deem necessary for the purpose recited in Section 3(a) of the National Industrial Recovery Act.

The Code Authority shall admit or cause to be admitted participation in this Code any person on terms of equality with all other persons participating therein; and each person subject to the jurisdiction of this Code and accepting the benefits of the activities of the Code Authority shall pay his proportionate share of the arnounts necessary to furnish such benefits.

The reasonable share of the expense of the initiation, approval and administration of this Code to be borne by persons subject thereto shall be determined by the Code Authority, subject to review by the Administrator, upon the basis of volume of business and such other factors as it may deem equitable to take into consideration.

When the administration of this Code is delegated by the Code Authority of this Code to the agent appointed by the appropriate authority of the Code of Fair Competition for Dealers in Builders Supplies the pro rata cost of administration shall be the same as for all other dealers in lumber, lumber products, building materials, and building specialties, but shall be paid to the appropriate authority of the Code of Fair Competition for Dealers in Builders Supplies to be used by them in the administration of this Code and the Code of Fair Competition for Dealers in Builders Supplies'

8. Certificate of Compliance.

Each person subject to this Code shall submit to the Code Authority or to its authorized administering agency within each Division upon demand, but not more frequently than monthly, an affidavit properly executed before a Notary Public, certifying that he has cbmplied with the provisions of this Code, as to rates of wages, houri of labor, and all other rules of this Code as set forth in this Code. These affidavits shall be filed with the Code Authority or with the authorized administering agency of the respective Divisions and shall be available at all times to the inspection of the President of the United States or his authorized representative.

9. Accounting.

Each dealer subject to the jurisdiction of this Code shall maintain such simplified unified system of accounting as the Code Authority may deem adequate to provide the necessary-facts for the development of cost data and for the determination of the cost of doing business and as the Administrator may approve-.- The-factor-s to bi included in any determination of cost under this Code shall be approved by the Administrator.

ARTICLE VIII_UNFAIR METHODS OF COMPETITION

1. Terms of Sale.

The appropriate agencies established by the various Divisions shall have- thi: authority to formulate uniform rules and regulations soverning terms of sale and collection of accounts within their iespective jurisdiction subject to the approval of the Code Authority and the Atlministrator. The farlure to adhere to such terms of sale and enforce collections thereunder is hereby declared to be an unfair method of competition.

2. Conditions of Sale-Estimates and Quotations.

(a) All prices, terms and conditions of sale as developed under thi uniform cost accounting system or established by appropriate rule or regulation within any trade area shall b-e published- by :a9h dealer wiihin each trade aiea and shall be filed with the Code Authority or its delegated agent. Any deviation from -such published piices, terms and conditions of sale until new prices,- terms and conditions of sale shall have been published and filed shall be construed as unfair methods of competition.

(b) A dealer upon request of the Code Authoritv shall furlish to the said Code Authority or its duly constituted agent, a list of ite-ms included in estimates -or quotations showing the exact quantity, erade. soecies. qualitv or brand of each item of merchandise and t"h" .i""i sale'price bf each unit listed, and proof of the quantity delivered.

3. Breach of Contract.

The wilful interference by any dealer by any means whatsoever with any existing sale between any dealer and his customer which has the effect of attracting business away from the dealer interferred with is hereby declaied to be an unfair method of competition.

4. Commercial Bribery.

The granting of gratuities, special discounts, secret rebates, advertising allowances, Iree samples of commercial size, special services, the issuance of false invoices or quotations or the granting of undue allowances or other special inducements is hereby declared to be an unfair method of competition.

5. Guaranteed Products.

Any statement which shall be made, either oral, written or printed for the purpose of having the effect of misleading or deceiving purchasers with respect to the quantity, quality, grade, brand or substance of the goods purchased is hereby declared to be an unfair method of competition.

6. Substitution.

(a) The practice of selling or offering for sale nou-standard grades, sizes, dimensions or classifications of lumber and building naterials as standard or of substituting inferior grades, sizes, dimensions or classifications of lumber and building materials below specifications for the purpose of evading the provisions of this paragraph, is hereby declared to be an unfair method of competition.

(b) The failure to include in retail bids and estimates the true grades and species of materials to be supplied and the failure to supply the true. grades and species estimated or bid upon is hereby declared to be an unfair method of competition.

7. Grade Marking.

(a) When the provisions for the marking or branding of lumber and timber products, as required by Article XVI (b) and (c) of the Code of Fair Competition of the Lumber and Timber Products Industries, approved by the President August 19,1933, shall be put into effect, as provided therein, the purchase of lumber or timber products not marked or branded in accordance with said provisions, is hereby declared to be an unfair method of competition.

(b) No person engaged in the distribution of lumber and timber products at retail shall change, obliterate, remove, make substitution for or otherwise disturb the marks or brands placed on lumber and timber products in accordance with said provisions, excepting only as such marks or brands are removed in the normal processes oI planning and fabricating. The violation of this rule is hereby declared to be an unfair method of competition.

8. Cost.

No person shall sell lumber, lumber products, building materials or building specialties as herein defined, below cost. For the purpose of this paragraph, cost is defined to include the actual cost of merchandise to the seller plus actual overhead. Overhead shall include actual disbursed expense involved in selling and delivering merchandise as determined by accounting methods approved by the

Code Authority and the Administrator. in accordance with Article VII, paragraph 9 of this Code, and shall be computed by the statistical mode method. If at any time the Code Authority desires to change this method of computing costs, application shall be made to the Administrator for a revision of the factors to be included in the determination of costs, or for a revision of the methods by which such factors are determined or both or if at any time the Administrator, upon his own initiative, desires to change this method of computing costs, he may make such appropriate revisions thereof, as he may deem necessary.

9. Defamation of Competitors.

Defamation of competitors, disparaging statements, directly or indirectly by words or acts which untruthfully reflect on a competitor, his service. credit standing, quality of merchandise, or conditions of employment, is hereby declared to be an unfair method of competition.

10. Interference with Employees.

Inducing a competitor's salesman or credit man to leave his employment for the purpose of injuring a competitor's business, is hereby declared to be an unfair method of competition.

11. Transit Stock.

The purchase or acceptance of lumber, lumber products, buildirrg materials or building specialties, shipped on consignment or placed in transit via rail or water thirty days after the approval of this Code without a previous order or contract therefor by a purchaser subject to the povisions of this Code shall constitute an unfair method of competition.

ARTICLE IX_GENERAL

l. Collective Bargaining.

A11 employees shall have the right to collective bargaining on the basis set up in Section 7 (a) of the National Industrial Recovery Act, and employment shall be on the basis prescribed as follows: -

(a) 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 emolovers of labor, or their agents, in the designation of such represeniatives or in self-organization or in other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection;

(b) 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 -ioining, organizing, or assisting a labor organization of his own choosing, and

(c) That employers shall comply with the maximum hours of labor, minimum rates of pay, and other conditions of employment, approved or prescribed by the President.

2. Special Agreements.

Voiuntary agreements or proposed voluntary agreements between dealers engaged in the distribution of lumber and building materials or between and among organizations or groups in the lumber and building material trade, or in which such dealers, organizations or groups propose to participate as provided in Title I, Section 4(a) of the National Industrial Recovery Act, shall be not in conflict with the provisions of this Code or with any approved rule issued thereunder.

Such agreements or proposed agreements shall be submitted to the Code Authority and if not disapproved by it within thirty days as being in conflict with the provisions of this Code. they may thereafter be submitted to the President for approval, but no dealer engaged in the distribution of lumber and building materials shall participate in any such agreement which has been determined by the Code Authority to be in conflict with the provisions of this Code.

3. Monopolies.

This Code shall not be construed. interpreted or administered so it monopolies or monopolistiic practices and shall not be as to permit or availed of for that purpose.

The orovisions of this Ct provisions Code shall not be so construed, interpreted _[ he not De or administered as to eliminate or oppress small enterprises or to discriminate against them.

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Her Legal Terms

She came into the Probate Courtroom, a big, dusky "cullud" woman, with three very small children, two trailing her and the smallest in her arms, and addressed the Judge:

"Cap'n," she inquired; "Is you de Reprobate Jedge?"

4, Membership.

"f'm the Judge of Probate, Sadie,"' he replied; "What can I do for you?"

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President Approves Retail Lumber Code

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. No ile.quitable restrictions on admission to membership shall be imposed by the National Retail Lumber Dealers Associati,on or anv of its constituent Divisions hereinafter referred to.

5. Arbitration.

The use of arbitration in the settlement of commercial disputes between employers or between buyers and sellers under the arbitration rules of the American Arbitration Association is recognized as an economical and effective rnethod of adjusting businesi controversy. Any complaint, difference, controversy or question of fair competition which nray arise between a member of this trade and a member of any other industry or trade under or out of this Code, of a code of Fair Competitiorr adopted by such other industry, or any question involvirrg a conflict betweerr provisions of this Code and of any other Code affecting this industry, may be submitted to arbitration under the rules of the American Arbitiation Association.

6. Amendment, Cancellation and Modification.

(a) Amendments to this Code may be proposed to the Code Authority by any Division and when approved by the said Code Authority shall be effective, upon the approval of the President.

(b) This Code or any of its provisions shall be cancelled or modified and any approved rule issued thereurrder shall be ineffective to the extent necessary to conform to any action by the President under Section l0(b) of the National Industrial Recovery Act in cancellation or modification of any order, approval, license, rule or regulation pertaining thereto.

(c) Any decision, rule, regulation, order, or finding made, or course of action followed, pursuant to the provisions of this Code may be cancelled or modified by the Administrator upon complaint of any interested party through the Code Authority, or upon his own initiative, whenever he shall determine such cancellation or modification necessary to eftectuate the provisions of the National Recovery Act.

7. Supplemental Code Provisions.

Supplemental Code provisions affecting or pertaining to Divisions and Sub-Divisions may be filed with the Code Authority and if not inconsistent with the provisions of this Code may be recommended by it to the Administrator. When approved by the Administrator such supplements shall have the same force and effect as anv other provisions of this Code.

8. Appeal.

Any interested party shall have the right of complaint to any subdivision agency and of prompt hearing and decision thereon in respect of any decision, rule, regulation, order, finding or course oI action of said agency. Such complaint and hearing shall be in accordance with such rules and regulations as said agency may pre- scribe. The decision of said agency may be appealed by any interested party to the divisiori agency.

Any interested party shall have the right of complaint to any division agency and of prompt hearing and decision thereon under such rules and regulations as said agency may prescribe in respect of any decision, rule, regulation, order, finding or course of action of said agency. The decision of said agency may be appealed by any interested party to the Code Authority.

Any interested party shall have the right of complaint to the Code Authority and of prompt hearing and decision thereon. under such rules and regulations as it shalt prescribe in respect of any decision, rule. regulation, order, finding or course of action of the said Code Authority. The decision of said Code Authority may be appealed by any interested party to the Administrator.

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Any party desiring to appeal from action by the Code Authority shall within ten (10) days after said judgment or decision serve written notice upon the Code Authority of his intention to appeal and file a copy of said notice with the Executive Committee for transmittal to the Administrator of the National Industrial Recovery Act, requesting a date and place for hearing said appeal. 9. Violations.

Violation by any person subject thereto of any provision of this Code or of any approved rule issued thereunder, or of any agreement entered into by him under this Code, or any false statement or report made to the President or to the Code authority, or to any Division or Sub-Division agency established under this Code, shall after determination thereof by the Administrator, constitute an unfair method of competition and the ofiender shall be subject to the penalties provided by the National Industrial Recovery Act.

ARTICLE X-EFFECTIVE DATE

This Code and the amendments thereto shall become efiective on the tenth day after its approval by the President.

Western Pine Ass'n Opens

San Francisco Office

. Western Pine Association has opened its district office in San Francisco at 548 Call Building.

L. V. Graham, appointed District Officer, is in charge, and is busy on the work of making a tour of the mills in the three California districts of the Association. Mr. Graham left San Francisco October 4 to visit the mills of the California Valley District.

The telephone nurxber of the new office is EXbrook 6048.

Bill Sh"rp With Fir-Tex

Bill Sharp is now associated with Fir-Tex of Southern California and is assisting Stanley Moore, California manager, with the firm's sales. Mr. Sharp will call on the lumber and building material trade. Before coming to Southern California, Mr. Sharp lvas connected with the lumber business in Michigan. Fir-Tex of Southern California has their headquarters in the Petroleum Securities Bldg., Los Angeles.

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O Display Rack

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South ern California Retailers Orga nize ts Administer Lumber Code

An Association, to be known as the "Lumber Retailers Code Administration of Southern California (Ltd.)" was organized at a meeting held at Los Angeles on October 9. Harry A. Lake, president of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association, presided at the meeting. Henry S, Patten, Patten-Blinn Lumber Co., Los Angeles, was elected President pro-tem of the new organization.

The constitution and by-laws of the new Association follows:

ARTICLE I_NAME

The name of the Association (Corpolation) shall be "Lumber Retailers Code Administration of Southern California (Ltd.)" Hereinafter referred to as the "Association" ("Corporation").

ARTICLE II-OBJECT

To do any and all things necessary to make efiective in Southern California the declared policy of that Federal Act known as the National Industrial Recovery Act and/or that California Act known as the California Industrial Recovery Act and/or that California Act known as the Supplement to the California Industrial Recovery Act, and to administer the provisions of such Code and/or Codes of Fair Competition as have or may be approved under said Act and,/or Acts.

ARTICLE III_MEMBERSHIP

Membership in this Association (Corporation), or any of its Divisions, shall be open to any person (natural or legal) engaged in the Lumber, Lumber Products, Building Materials and Building Specialties trade. No application or entrance fee shall be charged.

ARTICLE IV-DIVISIONS

Section l. This Association (Corporation) is divided for jurisdictional and administrative purposes into the fol- ' lowing Divisions:

1, San Diego-San Diego Lumbermen's Service Bureau;

2, Northern San Diego County-Northern San Diego County Lumbermen's Club; 3, Orange County-Orange County Lumbermen's Club; 4, Harbor-Long Beach Lumber Club; 5, South Bay-South Bay Lumber Club; 6, ComptonCompton Lumber Club; 7, Centinela Valley-Centinela Lumber Club; 8, Santa Monica-Bay District Lumbermen's Institute; 9, Los Angeles-Lumber and Allied Products Institute; 10, San Fernando Valley-San Fernando Valley Lumber Club; 11, Antelope Valley-Antelope Valley Lumber Club;12, Ventura-Ventura County Building Material Dealers' Club; 13, Santa Barbara-Building Material Dealers' Credit Club; 14, Pasadena-Pasadena

ARTICLE V-VOTING POWER

Section 1. Each member yard shall have as many votes as shall equal the quotient obtained by dividing by 60,000 the aggregate amount in dollars of the invoicing value of the products sold at retail and delivered by it for consumption within the State of California during the year of September l, 1932, to August 31, 1933. Fractions in such quotient shall be disregarded; provided, however, that each member yard shall have at least one vote.

Each member yard shall certify, over the signature of a duly qualified officer or agent, to the Board of Directors hereinifter provided the total of sales as required by this provision and the name of the person authorized to cast such vote or votes as it is entitled to cast, immediately upon call. The person so authorized to vote may be changed at the will of the member yard by written notice to said Board of Directors. The votes which each yard is entitled to cast shall be revised as of Fetrruary 1, each year, to conform to the total volume of sales for the previous calendar year.

Section 2. Any vote entitled to be cast at any meeting may be cast by the holder of a proper written proxy.

Section 3. 75 per cent of all votes entitled to be cast must be present or represented by written proxy to constitute a quorum.

Section 4. 75 per cent of the votes present or represented by written proxy at any meeting shall be required for authoritative action.

Section 5. Each member of the Board of Directors, hereinafter provided, shall be entitled to cast the number of votes equal to the total of votes to which all yards of the Division and/or Divisions and/or Sub-Divisions which he represents are entitled. When voting on matters which have been previously voted upon by the yards he represents, he shall cast the same number of votes lor and/or against the proposal as were cast by said yards.

ARTICLE VI-ADMINISTRA|TION

Section 1. The Board of Directors shall be the governing body of this Association (Corporation), and shall have all the powers and duties conferred upon it by this Constitution and By-Laws and generally all such other powers and duties as shall be necessary or proper to enable it to carry out the purposes of this Association (Corporation).

Section 2. Each group of yards constituting the following Division and/or Divisions and/or Sub-Divisions shall immediately elect, in the manner hereinafter provided, one member of the Board of Directors:

Section 2. Additional Divisions may be created and Divisions as listed above consolidated or otherwise altered by the Board of Directors, hereinafter provided.

Section 3. Each Divisipn listed above or hereafter created shall be independent and self-governing in respect of all conditions and problems relating to said Division exclusively, and shall promptly constitute the necessary bylaws for their self-administration. Such by-laws shall not be in conflict with the by-laws of this Association (Corporation) or of those of any Division thereof.

l. Administrative Division No. 1; 2, Administrative Division No. 2; 3, Administrative Division No. 3; 4, Administrative Division No. 4: 5. Administrative Divisions No. 5, 6 and 7; 6, Administrative Division No. 8; 7, Downtown Sub-Division of Administrative Division No. 9; 8, Northern Sub-Division of Administrative Division No. 9; 9, Western Sub-Division of Administrative Division No. 9; 10, Southwestern Sub-Division of Administrative Division No. 9: 11. Southeastern and Eastern Sub-Divisions of Administrative Division No. 9; 12, Administrative Divisions Nos. 10 and 11; 13, Administrative Division No. 12; 14, Administrative Division No. 13; 15, Administrative Division No. 14 16, Administrative Divisions Nos. i5 and 16; 17, Administrative Division No. 17; 18, Administrative Division No. 18; 19, Administrative Division No. 19.

Section 3. The groups of yards electing the respective Directors may be altered by the Board of Di1ectors.

and San Gabriel Valley Lumbermen's Club; 15, Pomona-Pomona Valley Lumbermen's Club; 16, Ontario-OntarioUpland Lumber Club; 17, San Bernardino-Inland Lumber Institute; 18, Riverside-Riverside Lumber Institute ; 19, Imperial Valley-Lumbermen's Service Bureau of Imperial Valley.

Section 4. The number of Directors may be increased or decreased by the members at the annual meeting or a meeting especially called for that purpose.

Section 5. Each Director must be chosen from the group of dealers previously authorized, in the manner provided above. to vote for each yard. Election must be by written ballot. It may be held in a meeting or by mail as the District may prefer except that the election for Directors representing Districts Nos. 5, 12 and 16 shall be by mail at first and until other machinery is set uD. A ballot shall be prepared for each District lisiing the name of each person eligible for election. Each person eligible to vote shall mark his choice on the ballot, sign it, and indicate the number of votes he is entitled to cast. A maioritv of all votes cast shall elect. If no person obtains a majority on the first ballot, a second ballot shall be taken on which only the two persons receiving the largest number of votgs on the first ballot shall be eligible.

Section 6. Each Director now elected shall serve until February l, 1934, and thereafter from year to year, and until his successor is elected.

Sectron 7. Any Director resigning or becoming ineligible to serve shall be replaced for tl,e remainder of his term of office by a Director elected in the manner provided by Section 5 of this Article.

Section 8. The members of the Board of Directors shall automatically be and become the members of any "Code Administration Committee" or similarly designated body required by any Code for its administration, and shall have such powers and duties as may be delegated by such Code.

Section 9. For the purpose of efficient and economical administration, the Board of Directors may delegate its authority to an Executive Committee of five (seven) of its members.

Section 10. The Board of Directors may appoint such

other Committees and delegate to them such authority and duties as it shall deem necessary or proper.

ARTICLE VII_MEETINGS

Section 1. There shall be an annual meeting of the Association (Corporation) during the month of February, each year, for receiving the annual reports and the transaction of other business. Notice of such meeting shall be mailed to the last recorded address of each member at least ten (10) days before the time appointed for the meeting.

Section 2. Special meetings of the Association (Corpora- tion) may be called by the Board of Directors. Special meetings shall be called by the President upon receipt of written request of 20 per cent of the membership. Notice of any speiial meeting shall be given at least fivi (5) days in advance.

Section 3. Meetings of the Board of Directors shall be at the time and place appointed by themselves.

ARTICLE VIII-ELECTIVE OFFICERS

Section 1. The Board of Directors shall elect from its membership the following officers: President, Vice-President, and Treasurer.

Section 2. Election shall be by written ballot. A majority vote shall elect. If no member obtains a majority on the first ballot. a second shall be taken between the two members receiving the largest number of votes on the first ballot. Term of office shall be the same as orovided for Directors.

Section 3. The duties of the President and Vice-President shall be the usual duties of such officers.

Section 4. It shall be the duty of the Treasurer to see that the Secretary keeps proper books of account, showing collection and disposition of all funds. He shall see that all funds received are deposited in accounts requiring two signatures of three authorized persons, for withdrawal, such persons to be himself, the President and the Secretary.

ARTICLE IX-SECRETARY

The Secretary shall be chosen by the Executive Committee, subject to approval of the Board of Trustees, and shall have charge of the Head Office of the Association (Corporation) in Los Angeles. His duties shall be as defined by the Executive Committee.

ARTICLE X_AMENDMENTS

This Constitution and By-Laws may be amended, repealed, or altered in whole or in part, by the members at any duly organized meeting, provided the proposed change is submitted by mail to each member yard at least ten (10) days prior to the meeting which is to consider the change; or such change may be made by the Board of Directors, subject to written approval of. 75 per cent of member yard votes.

A WINNING WA

The surest way to beat your competitor is to sell better goods for the money, use fairer business methods, be more courteous to customers. and render better service.

ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN

Our German neighbor, Mrs. Berg, has an adequate but slightly Malapropish vocabulary. She was telling us about her motor accident:

"My husband," she explained, "got incited and stepped on the celery instead of the brake puddle, so we had a head-in colusion. So our regulator was dentalid, the rnud gutters was shuttered, the lances of the headlands was smashed to smithereens, and the man had to come from the surface station with the whacker and tow us in. When we got to the barrage we found but one of the cinders was crackled and had to be wilted. And, besides that, we had to get new pistols and a new commentator and a new correcting.rod."-Saturday Evening Post.

WHY BANKS DON'T FAIL IN CHINA

They send no glittering statements out When a bank goes broke in China, To show that it's solvent beyond a doubt, When a bank goes broke in China. No bitter tears you see them shed But they take a big cheese knife instead And amputate the President's headAnd banks don't go broke in China.

BIGGER AND BETTER?

Wife: "Now that I'm fat you don't love me any more like you promised you would when you married me."

Husband: "My promise was 'for better or worse', not 'through thick and thin'."

MIXED

The justice of the peace in a country town, in pursuance of his duties, had to hear and judge cases that were brought before him, and also to perform occasional marriage ceremonies. Though he found it difficult to dissociate the various functions of his ofiEce, everything had gone smoothly until one day he asked a bride: "Do you take this man to be your husband?" The bride nodded. "And you," said the justice, turning to the bridegroom, "what have you to say in your own defense?"

E FOOL'S PRAYER

By Edward Rowland Sill

The royal feast was done; the King Sought some new sport to banish care, And to his jester said: "Sir Fool, Kneel thou, and make for us a prayer."

The jester doffed his cap and bells, And stood the mocking court before; They could not see the bitter smile Beneath the painted grin he wore.

He bowed his head, and bent his knee Upon the Monarch's silken stool, His pleading voice arose, "Oh Lord; Be merciful to me, a Fool.

"No pity, Lord, could change the heart

From red with wrong, to white as wool, The rod must heal the sin: but Lord Be merciful to me, a Fool.

"'Tis not by guilt the onward sweep Of truth 4nd right, Oh Lord, we stay; 'Tis by our follies that so long We hold the earth from Heaven avtay.

"These clumsy feet, still in the mire, Go crushing blossoms without end, These hard, well-meaning hands we thrust Amid the heart-strings of a friend.

"The ill-timed truth we might have keptWho knows how sharp it pierced and stung? The word we had not sense to sayWho knows how grandly it had rung?

"Our faults no tenderness should ask, The chastening stripes must cleanse them all But for our blunder5-efi, in shame Before the eyes of Heaven we fall.

"Earth bears no balsam for mistakesMen crown the knave, but scourge the tool That did his will; but Thou, Oh Lord, Be merciful to me, a Fool."

The room was hushed; in silence rose The King, and sought his gardens cool, And walked apart, and murmured low, "Be merciful to me. a Fool."

Heads Shipowners Association Split Redwood Products for Twelfth Year Operators Organize

Frank J. O'Connor, Donovan Lumber Company, San Francisco, president of the California Wholesale Lumber Association, was elected president of the Shipowners Association of the Pacific Coast for the twelfth consecutive time at the annual meeting of the Association held in San Francisco, September 29.

R. W. Myers was chosen vice president, and Nat Levin again was named secretary and treasurer.

The following directors were chosen: F. J. O'Connor, Donovan Lumber Co.; R. W. Myers, Hobbs, Wall & Co.; James Tyson, The Chas. Nelson Co.; Chas. L. Wheeler, McCormick Steamship Co.; L. C. Hammond, Hammond Lumber Co.; Otis R. Johnson, National Steamship Co.; L. C. Stewart, Sudden & Christenson; S. D. Freeman, S. S. Freeman & Co.; H. F. Vincent, E. K. Wood Lumber Co.; W. R. Chamberlin, W. R. Chamberlin & Co.; John L. Reed, J.'R. Hanify & Co., and J. C. McCabe of A. F. Mahony Co.

Dodge-Peters

Charles S. Dodge, well known San Francisco Bay district lumberman, was married September 7 in Berkeley to Miss Mildred Peters of Berkeley.

Mr. Dodge was formerly president of E. J. Dodge & Co., manufacturers of Redwood, and is now associated with MacDonald & Harrington, San Francisco.

Split Redwood products operators of Humboldt and Mendocino Counties held an organization meeting at Scotia October 1.

H. W. Cole, President of the California Redwood Association and Executive Officer of the Redwood Division of the Lumber Code Authority, addressed the meeting, explaining the application of the Lumber Code in its bearing on the split products industry. After Mr. Cole had answered a number of questions on the Code it was decided to form a separate organization to be known as the Redwood Split Products Association. Fifty operators were present.

A second largely attended meeting was held in Fortuna, October 6, at which organization was completed, officers elected, and a unanimous resolution passed to make application to come under the Lumber Code as a subdivision of the Redwood Division of Lumber Code Authority.

Alex Masson was elected president, and the following rvere elected directors: Frank Dun, John Burman, Francis Tann, C. J. Pesula, James Skippington and Matt Elich.

Open Offlce in File Buildins

The recently opened San Francisco sales office of Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co. is located at 1208-9 Fife Building, 1 Drumm St. The telephone number is SUtter T771.

Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co. are at present operating their mills at Aberdeen, Wash., and Dryad, Wash. They are large producers of Douglas Fir, Hemlock and Red Cedar lumber; Fir and Hemlock lath, and Red Cedar shingles.

They operate two steamers, the Hubert Schafer and the C. D. Johnson III, calling at San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Monterey, in Northern California, and all the regular Southern California ports.

Business On Upturn

BDIDWOOD DXTDRIOBS

PRACTICAL AND PERMANEI T EXTERIORS REQUIRE STRENGTH DURABILITY PAINTABILITY FIRE RETARDANCE TERMITE RESISTANCE

All or the above are natural "t"'".t?ilif:t H.;*Tti$. proper grade and seasoning is specified. Time Tested Noyo Brand Redwood is always available at Reasonable Prices.

Ed. Culnan, general manager of the Western Lumber Co., San Diego, says that business is improving and is now on the upturn. An order for 30O M feet of lumber for use in constructing Civilian Conservation Camps in San Diego county has been distributed among the Western Lumber Co., San Diego Lumber Co., Patten-Blinn Lumber Co. and the Benson Lumber Co. The millwork to be used on these jobs will go to eight San Diego millwork concerns.

California Building Permits For September

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California Retail Lumber Code Approyed

A Code of Fair Competition for the Retail Lumber and Lumber and Building Material Industry of California was approved at San Francisco on October 3, 1933, by T. A. Reardon, Director, Department of Industrial Relations, and Edwin M. Daugherty, Commissioner of Corporations. The Code became effective on October 10, 1933.

For the purpose of efficient and economical administration of the Code, there is created two autonomous operating districts to be designated as "Northern California District" and "Southern California District." The Code will be administered in each of these two Districts by its respective Code Administrative Committee.

The Code includes Supplemental Codes and Provisions relating to the Northern and Southern California Districts which follow:

SUPPLEMENTAL CODE AND SPECIAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE , NORTHERN CALIFORNIA DISTRICT

l. The Northern California District shall be divided into seven di"isions. Each geographical division shall select from its retail Itrmber dealers two members, one to serve for one year, and one to serve for two years. At each annual meeting thereafter a number of members equal to that whose terms have expired shall be elected. Any member shall be eligible for reelection.

2. T.he "controlling authority" within the territory of this Code shall at all times maintain an impartial "co-ordinating committee", consisting of the Code Administration Committee and the Commissioner of Corporations, or his agents.

3. The Code Adr4inistration Committee shall be the "general planning and co-ordinating agency" for the trade in this district, and shall be empowered to act conclusively in respect to all matters within its jurisdiction, subject to the approval of the Commissioner of Corporations or his agent.

4. If any established division, as hereinafter provided, shall fail to perform its obligations as outlined above, the Code administration committee may act as a division committee, for the purpose of securing the adoption of standards and performance conforming to the provisions of this code.

, 5. Each division shall elect one dealer to serve as a member of ihe Central Control Committee, which will elect its own chairman. Five members will constitute a quorum.

6. All geographical divisions operating under the provisions of this Code, shall file application with the Central Control Committee, which application shall include a complete verbatim copy of the agreement or other instrument under which the said division is operating, and shall set forth its plan of operation including a statefnent of the Standards of Practice to. be applied, fermulae to be followed in establishing minimum prices, and such further and additional information as the Central Control Committee may require.

. Upon filing ol such application, it shall be the duty of the Central Control Committee to examine it and such papers and docutnents as may be filed therewith. If the Central Control Committee finds that the plan of operation of the divisions is in conformity ivith this Code, the National Industrial Recovery Act and the Calilornia Industrial Recovery Act and supplement thereto, and is not unfair or oppressive to competitors or to the public, and will not result in exorbitant prices, the Central Control Committee shall approve such plan of operation.

7- The Central Control Committee in this district shall serve as the Executive agent of the Code Administration Committee and shall have further duties and powers as provided herein:

(a) From time to time require such reports from divisions as in its judgment shall be necessary to advise it adequately oI the administration and enforcement.of the provisions of this Code.

: (b) Upon complaint of interested parties, or upon its own initiative make sucft inquiry and investigation as to the operation of the Code, as may be necessary.

(c) Make rules and regulations necessary for the administration and enforcement ol this Code.

(d) The committee shall be charged with the enforcement of , the provisions of this Code, and with duties through agent , or otherwise, of hearing and adjusting complaints, considerii ing proposals, for amendment, making recommendations il!"^ thereon, approving recommendations for exqeptions to the

provfsions of this Code, arrd otherwise administering its prqvrsrons.

(e) The Committee shall be empowered to consider and adjudicate_any breach of this Code, or any dispute a_rising as the result of same. This committee may, if it sees fit. iite any person operating within its jurisdiction to the proper State Authority, for such action as the law or the regulation under which such person operates may provide.

(f) The Committee may delegate any of its authorities to any Divisional Authority or to such agents as it may determine. Plgposals regarding matters afiecting more than one Division may be initiated by any division, and shall be submitted for consideration to the Central Control Committee, and its determination shall be binding upon such division.

Cost shall constitute r.nt"..rnJrl price of merchandise, delivered in the dealer's yard or warehouse, plus such overhead as may be shown by the accirunting system, plus a reasonable profit, based on the capital structure as hereinafter provided.

III-PRICES

l. Each Division shall establish and from time to time thereafter, revise a scale of minimum prices for the standard items of lumber, building materials and building specialties, carried by the dealers in such Division. Minimum prices shall be based upon in- formation developed under this Code and shall be submitied for approval to its Central Control Committee. Upon approval by said committee and acceptance by the Chief of the Division of Coiporations or such constituted authority as he may designate. such minimum prices shall be binding upon all dealers under the' jurisdiction of this Code. The Central Control Committee shall disapprove such scale of minimum prices, or revisions thereof, only if it 6nds and so declares that it is unfair to competitors in other Divisions, or to the public.

2- It shall be an "unfair trade_ practice" to sell below a reasonable established cost of operation ai here defined, including replace- ment cost of merchandise and proper allocation of overhead expense, embracing in duch overheid ixpense, handling charges, loss by breakage, or deterioration, depreciation and a proper proportion of the expense of rent, interest on invested capital, reasonable profit on sales, salaries, credit losses, taxes, advertising and insurance incurred in conducting such business.

3. The phrase "unfair tiade practice" shall also include the act or acts of systematically rendering or performing any work or service at a price less than the cost thereof as a part, parcel or incident to any transaction with the object of rendering or per- forming such service or work for the purpo_se of acquiring an advantage in trade over competitors.

4. Each division shall use as its basic cost, the replacement cost of the merchandise plus the lowest freight rate, either rail or water, plus cost of operation as hereinbefore provided; and it shall be an unfair trade practice for any dealer in any division to sell or offer for sale any commodity at a price less than that established by said division.

5. All basic costs as herein provided shall not include delivery charges; cartage on all merchandise to be delivered by a dealer shall be computed in accordance with a standard cartage schedule, which shall be compiled by each division and shall be approved by the Central Control Committee. Said rates shall be not tess than the cost of operation, as provided in Section 2 of this article.

6. Dropped lines or surplus stocks, sometimes designated as "close-outs" of inventories, may be converted into cash to meet immediate needs, and may be sold at such prices as are necessary to move the merchandise into buyers' hands. However, all such stocks must first be reported to the Central Control Committee of the division and be disposed of subject to the approval of that committee.

IV_AMENDMENTS

Amendments to this supplemental Code may be proposed to the Code Administration Committee by any division thereof and when approved by the said Committee and the Central Control Committee of this district shall be efiective, subject to the approval of the Chief of the Division of Corporations, or his agents, and be in full force and effect as though contained herein.

V_REPORTS

For purposes of co-ordination and audit each division shall furnish the Central Control Committee with such reports and_ records as may be required.

VI_SALES PRACTICES

l. Terms of Sale. Terms of sale shall be on the basis of a standard set-up by the Central Control Committee. The failure (Continued on Page 24)

Cost Advisory Committee in Session at \(/ashington

Washington, D. C., Oct. 10.-The work of the lumber industry's Cost Advisory Committee, in session at the Mayflower Hotel here since Oct. 2, has progressed to such an extent that the Co,mmittee is now confident of being able to make a report to the Lumber Code Authority for its action shortly after that body convenes in this city on the 16th, according to statements made by members today.

The outstanding feature of the sessions was the quite evident fact that each of the members came to Washington with a hearty desire to cooperate in every way possible with representatives from other sections of the country and other branches of the industry. The members also showed a full realization of the magnitude and importance of their task, plus a determination to complete their job in strict accordance with the provisions of the Code and with full regard for the rights of those without the industry as well as of those subject to the jurisdiction of the Code.

C. Arthur Bruce, Executive Officer of the Lumber Code Authority, sounded the keynote of the Committee's deliberations when, upon opening the sessions October 2, he instructed the members that they were not there to "fix" prices in the sense that the general public understood a "fixed" price, but to recommend to the Authority costprotection prices, prices which will return to operators their actual cost after paying Code wages and working Code hours.

These prices, when approved by the Lumber Code Authority, will reflect the lowest levels at which lumber can be legally sold or ofiered for sale, but they will not in any sense "fix" the market. They will merely establish a bottom for the market, prescribe levels below which prices will not be permitted to sag.

One of the most significant of Mr. Bruce's remarks was his statement to the effect that the industry is now in the throes of exchanging some individual rights for many group advantages, and that those engaged therein must learn to cease thinking as individuals and cultivate the habit of thinking as groups. While the changes in the industrial structure are undoubtedly attended by inconvenience in all cases-by real hardship in many-from them will eventually come a stabilized industry. An ample but not an over-supply of forest products is to be maintained at fair prices for the public, plus the determination to provide steady employment for the hundreds of thousands dependent upon the industry for a livelihood.

INSURANCE

WITH THAT MUTUAL INTEREST

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Mr. Bruce introduced Jack Seidman of the firm of Seidman and Seidman, certified public accountants, selected by the Authoritv to aid and supervise the work of the Committee. In outlining the Committee's work, Mr. Seidman first called attention to wages, with particular emphasis on the method of adjustment used to give effect to increases under the Code. Mention was next made of materials and supp.lies, overhead and administration and shipping expenses; in connection with the last he warned those present against including any outward freights although such freight is an element of cost to the purchaser. Selling expense provoked the caution that no advertising or trade promotion expenditures were to be included. Charges for insurance, taxes and interest were then explained and reference made to losses on trade accounts. The Committee was told to state the method and basis used in determining depreciation and depletion and to conform in such compilations to approved accounting practice. Mr. Seidman also directed that where plants or operators come under more than one division or subdivision, their figures should be segregated according to the operator's various activities.

He then took up the matter of the allocation of weighted average cost and instructed that groups set forth the method by which the cost was allocated to the several items of their product, including how determination was made of yield by grades or sizes, as well as a schedule of the standard species, grades and sizes. He mentioned the necessity of giving effect to relative market prices over a representative period and declared that separate figures should be shown for rough and dressed lumber if both were sold.

In the event of a decision by the Authority to limit cost protection to basic species, and standard grades, or sizes, Mr. Seidman directed that groups should state what other species, grades or sizes might be sold, and set forth the extent of such sales. He then mentioned the matter of substandard products and advised that if a differential had been established to set forth the basis and the reasons therefor. Groups were also advised to include a list of other groups and products whose cost protection features should be coordinated with their own.

The urgent need of completing the Committee's task at as early a date as possble was stressed by Victor A. Stibolt, J. W. Watzek, Jr., W. M. Ritter and others, yet there was no desire by any member of the Committee to risk fundamental error for the sake of expediency. Of fundamental concern was the consideration that established costprotection prices should be so applied as to avoid imposing hardships upon groups of operators because of either character of product or differences in freight to the principal consuming centers.

It will be noted from the accountant's instructions that the really gruelling work is being done in the subcommittees which comprise the various groups.

To date there have been four general sessions of the Committee as a whole. Except on one occasion, when he was relieved by Dr. Wilson Compton, Mr. Bruce presided. J. C. Nellis, from the statistical staff of the Lumber Code Authority, is acting as Secretary of the Committee and liaiqon officer for group coordination. Following is a list of members of the Committee and others attending, together with their divisional or subdivisional afifiliations:

E. A. Selfridge, NRA Assistant Deputy Administrator;

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California Retail Lumber Code Approved

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to adhere to such terms of sale and to enforce collections under same, is hereby declared to be an unfair trade practice.

2, Unfair Conduct. The wilful interference by any dealer by any means whatsoever with any existing contract between any dealer and his customer which has the efiect of attracting business away from the dealer interfered with is hereby declared to be an unfair trade practice.

3. Commercial Bribery. The granting of gratuities, secret rebates, advertising allowances, free samples of commercial size, special services; the issuance of false invoices or the granting of undue allowance, absorbing any sales taxes which have been or may be imposed or other special inducements is hereby declared to be an unlair trade practice.

4, Misleading Statesments. Any statement which shall be made, either oral, wriiten or printed, for the p.urpose, or having the efiect of misleading or deceiving purchasers with respect to the quantity, quality, grade, brand or substance of the goods purchased is hereby declared to be an uqfair trade practice.

5. Quotations. To assure the carrying out of the intent and purposi of the National and California Industrial Recovery Acts so as not to eliminate or oppress small enterprises and not operate to discriminate against them. it shall be an unfair trade practice for any dealer to sell, bid or offer for sale any materials in his division or any other division and,/or territgry at prices less than those established by said division, territory, city or town where the materials are to be used.

6. The retail dealer is recognized as the proper distributor in his trade territory of all lumber and,/ot building materials excep! the followlng classes of business: The Departments of the United States Goveinment and transcontinental railroads. IIowever, all materials, for the above, delivered from a yard's stock are to be sold by dealers at the Divisional Retail Price.

7. It rhall be deemed an unfair trade practice for any dealer and/or agent or agents to allow any secret p4yment or allowance of iebatei, refunds. commissions, or unearned discounts either in the form of money or otherwise, furnish bonds or secretly extending to certain purchasers special services or privileges not extehded to all purchasers purchasing upon like terms and conditions to the injury of a competitor and where such payr-nent or allowance tends to destroy competition.

SUPPLEMENTAL CODE AND SPECIAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA DISTRICT I_ADMINISTRATION

l. At the next meeting held after the adoption of this Code there shall be created a Code Administration Committee. Membership shall consist of one representative chosen by each trade area organization now in existence or which shall subsequently be created within the area of Southern California as hereinbefore defined.

2. The Code Administration Committee shall have complete jurisdiction in the district covered by this Supplemental Code. subject to the approval of the administrator, and shall issue and enforce such rules, regulations, and interpretations, including trade practices; impose upon dealers subject to the jurisdiction of this Code such restrictions and designate such agent or agents and delegate such authority to them as may be necessary to effectuate the purposes and to enforce the provisions of this Code.

3. Each dealer subject to the jurisdiction of this Code shall have as many votes as shall equal the quotient obtained by dividing by 60,000 the aggregate amount in dollars of the invoicing value of the products sold at retail and delivered by him for consumption within the State of California during the calendar year, September l, 1932, to August 31, 1933. Fractions in such quotient shall be disregarded; provided, however, that each dealer shall have at least one vote. Dealers may vote by written proxy at any meeting. 75 per cent of all votes that might be cast must be present or represented by written proxy to constitute a quorum. 75 per cent of the votes present at any meeting shall be required for authoritative action. Each member of a Code Administration Committee shall be entitled to cast the number of votes equal to the total of votes to which all members of the organization he represents are entitled.

4. The Code Administration Committee shall establish in this district a Central Control Committee consisting of seven members which shall serve as the executive agent of the Code Administration Committee.

II-COST PROTECTION

1. The District Code Administration Committee is authorized to establish and from time to time revise minimum price lists effective in such areas ds it may designate within its District. carrying prices f.o.b. yard, to protect the replacement price of such merchandise plus such reasonable overhead as may be determined by standard ind uniform accounting practice either by the adoption of

the current weighted average cost of olerhead of all pelsons subject to the jurisdiction of this Code, or by the adoption of what is statistically known as the "mode", as may be determined by the Committee, and including a reasonable profit as is permitted by the provisions of the Cartwright Act, as amended. "Reasonable profit" is hereby defined by this trade for the purpose of this Article as not exceeding ten per cent (10/o) of the net sales price after deducting all quantity and/or trade and/or cash discounts.

2. Allowable items in the computation of overhead shall be wages; materials and supplies; administraitve expense (including trade association dues and code fees); shipping (including grading and loading); selling; maintenance; insurance; taxes; interest paid on indebte-dness representing plant facilities and working capital necessary to the operation of the business; discounts; claims paid; losses on accounts; depreciation (on straight line method and based on the fair value or the cost, whichever is lower); and loss by deterioration and breakage.

3. These costs, when ascertained, shall be allocated by the Committee to the several items in proportion to their relative market price over a representative period.

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4. In the interim, and until actual overhead can be determined to the satisfaction of the Committee, the general overhead cost of doing business, including selling expense, shall be considered to be twenty-five per cent (25%) of replacement cost landed in the yard of the dealer.

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5. The Committee shall issue interpretations and shall promulgate rules and regulations necessary for the enforcement of this Article to prevent evasion and secure uniform and equal application thereof.

6, Minimum prices established in accordance with the provisions of this Article shall become effective three days after publication thereof by the Committee.

7. No-person shall sell, or offer for sale, any lumber or timber items upon which minimum prices have been established, at prices less than those so established.

8. All basic costs as herein provided shall not include delivery charges. Cartage on all merchandise to be delivered by a-de-aler shalfbe computid in accordance with a standard cartage schedule, which shall be compiled by each division and shall be approved by the Committee. Said rates shall be not less than the cost of operation, as provided in Section 2 of this Article.

9.' Drbpped lines or surplus stocks, sometimes designatedas "close-outs'r of inventories, may be converted into cash to meet immediate needs, and may be sold at such prices as are necessary to move the merchandise into buyers' hands. Holvever, all such stocks must first be reported to the Committee of the district and be disposed of subject to the approval of that Committee.

III-AMENDMENTS

Amendments to this Supplemental Code may be proposed to the Code Administration Committee by any trade area organization thereof and when approved by the Committee andlor their designated agent or agenlt shall be effective, subject to. the approval of the Chief of the Division of Corporations or his agents. be in fuil rorce and efiect "r ,tili$fi$Hi., herein.

For the purpose of co-ordination and audit, each dealer shall furnish the Code Administration Committee or its designated agent or agents with such reports and records as may be required.

V_SALES PRACTICES

1. Terms of Sale. Terms of sale shall be on the basis of a standard set-up by the Committee. The failure to adhere to such terms of sale and to enforce collections under s4me, is hereby declared to be an unfair trade practige.

2. Unfair Conduct. The wilful interference by any dealer by any means whatsoever with any existing contract between any dealer and his customer which has the effect of attracting business away from the dealer interfered with is hereby declared to be an unfair trade practice.

3. Commercial Bribery. The granting of gratuities, secret rebates, advertising allowances, free samples of commercial size, special services. thJissuance of false invoices or the granting of undue allowances, absorbing any sales taxes which have. been or may be imposed oi other spicial- inducements is hereby declared to be an unfair trade practice.

4, Misleading Statements. Any statement which shall be made, either oral, written or printed, for the purpose, or having the efi-ect of misleading or deceiving purchasers with respect to the -qg-antity' oualitv. erade. brand or substance of the goods purchased is hereby declaied-to be an unfair trade practice.

5. Quotations. To assure the carrying -out of the intent and or.poi of the National and California Industrial Recovery Acts, io as not to eliminate or oppress small enterprises anii not operate to discriminate agaiqst them, it shall be an unfair -trade praclr,ce for any dealer to ielf bid or ofier for sale any materials in his dis-

trict or any other district and/or territory at prices less than those established for said district, territory, city or town where the materials are to be used.

6. The retail dealer is recognized as the proper distributor in his trade territory of all lumber and/or building materials excapt the following classes of business: The Departments of the United States Government and transcontinental railroads. However, all materials, for the above, delivered from a yard's stock are to be sold by dealers at the Divisional Retail Price,

7. The phrase "unfair trade practice" shall also include the act or acts of systematically rendering or perforr-ning any work or service at a price less than the cost thereof as a part, parcel or incident to any transaction with the object of rendering or performing such service or work for the purpose of acquiring an advantage in trade over competitors.

EXHIBITS A AND B OF THE CODE

Not to employ any person under 16 years of age, except that persons between 14 and 16 may be employed (but not in manufacturing or mechanical industries) for not to exceed 3 hours per day and those hours between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. in such work as will not interfere with hours of day school.

Not to work any accounting, clerical, banking, office, service or sales employees (except outside salesmen) in any store, office, department, establishment, delivery or freight service or in any other place or manner, for more than 40 hours in any one week.

Not to employ any factory or mechanical worker or artisan more than a maximum week of 35 hours until December 31. 1933, but with qhe right to work a maximum week of 40 hours for any six weeks within this period; and not to employ any worker more than eight hours in any one day.

The maximum hours fixed in the foregoing paragraphs (2) and (3) shall not apply to employees in establishments employing not more than two persons in towns of tess than 2500 population which towns are not part of a larger trade area; nor to employees in a managerial or executive capacity, who receive more than $35 per week; nor to employees on emergency maintenance and repair work; not to very speqial cases where restrictions of hours of highly skilled workers on continuous processes would unavoidably reduce production but, in any such special case, at least time and one-third shall be paid for hours worked in excess of the maximum. Population for the purposes of this Code shall be determined by reference to the 1930 Federal Census.

Not to pay any of the classes of employees mentioned in paraeraph (2) less than $15 per week in any city of over 500,000 popu-

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lation, or in the imryrediate trade area of such city; nor less than $14.50 per rqeek in any city of between 250,000 and 500,000 population, or in the immediate trade area of such city; not less than $14 per week in any city of between 2500 and 250,000 population, or in the immediate trade area of such city; and in towns of less than 2500 population fo increase all wages by not less than 20 per cent, provided that this shall not require wages in excess of $12.00 per week.

Not to pay any employee of the classes mentioned in paragraph (3) less than 40 cents per hour unless the hourly rate for the same class of vr'ork on July 15, 1929, was less than 40 cents per hour, in which latter case not to pay less than the hourly rate on July 15, 1929, and, in no event less than 30 cents per hour. It is agreed that this paragraph establishes a guaranteed minimum rate of pay regardless of whether the employee is compensated on the basis of a time rate or on a piecework performance.

Not to reduce the compensation for employment now in excess of the minimum wages hereby agreed to (notwithstanding that the hours worked in such employment may be hereby reduced) and to increase the pay for such employment by an equitable readjustment of all pay schedules.

Not to use any subterfuge to frustrate the spirit and intent of this Code which is, among other things, to increase employment by a universal covenant, to remove obstructions to commerce, and to shorten hours and to raise wages for the shorter week to a living basis.

That every place of business operating under this Code to remain open a minimum of 40 hours each week. Divisions, organizations, trade territories and towns to establish the number of hours in excess of 40 hours each week that they may remain open.

East B.y Hoo Hoo

More than 70 lumbermen attended the October dinner meeting of East Bay Hoo Hoo Club No. 39 at the Athens Athletic Club, Oakland, Monday evening, October 9.

President C. I. Gilbert, who presided, expressed gratification at the good attendance, remarking that practically every retail yard in the East Bay district was represented.

Out-of-town visitors included Bruce Clark of the Elliott Bay Mill Co., Seattle, who was a guest of club member Lloyd Harris.

Herb Dana, commissioner of officials of the Pacific Coast intercollegiate athletic conference, the principal speaker of the evening, was introduced by H. Sewall Morton, entertainment committee chairman. Mr. Dana related a number of interesting and humorous incidents observed by him on the field at close range. These reminiscences and some "inside stufi" about the great game that holds the attention of so many fans at this time of year left the audience wanting more at the end of the talk. Mr. Dana predicted a great year, based on the fact that season and individual advance ticket sales are ahead of last year.

Professor Emanuel Fritz, in his capacity of educational committee chairman, was on the program for a five-minute talk, but was induced to extend it to 15 minutes. His topic was "Ffow Wood Looks Under the Microscope," and he illustrated it by showing photographic reproductions of a one-eighth inch block of Redwood magnified 50 times.

'Clem Fraser, president of the East Bay Lumbermen's Club, announced that the National and State Retail Lumber Codes had been signed and were to go into operation the next day, October 10.

Music was provided by an orchestra composed of University of California students. Community singing of Stanford and California songs was led by Mitch Landis.

The following were declared winners in a drawing for three pairs of U.S.C.-California game tickets: A. V. Lucas, Castro Valley Lumber Co.; Fred Holmes, .Holmes Eureka Lumber Co., and H. Sewall Morton, Hill & Morton, fnc.

Table Sawe - Jointers - Glue Pots

Sawc - Vood Lathes - Shapers

Shafts . Grinders . Sanders

Surfacero - Electric Drills

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WILL SACRIFICE

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LUMBER GRADER

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Cost Advisory Committee in Se

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A. G. T. Moore, Charles A. Bauer, A. S. Boisfontaine, G. L. Hume. O. N. Cloud, Victor A. Stibolt and J. W. Watzek, Jr., Southern Pine; Edward B. Martin, Southern Rotary Cut Lumber; L. S. Beale, Secretary Hardwood Division; Charles A. Goodman, Hardwood ; Joe D. Penland and E. R. Baylor, Appalachian and Southern Hardwood; F. E. Bradley and R. G. Brownell, Northeastern Hardwood; Norman DeClue and Emmett B. Ford, Mahogany; W. W. Fobes, North Central Hardwood; David T. Mason, Western Pine; C. E. DeCamp, Redwood; A. H. Landram, E. W. Demarest and Earl H. Houston, West Coast Lumber and Logging; O. t. Swan, Northern Hemlock; Frank J. Hickling and S. L. Coy, Northern Pine; D. S. DeWitt and W. A. Holt, Maple, Beech and Birch Flooring; Murat H. Davidson, Ralph E. Hill, C. C. Fulbright, W. W. Miller and O. E. Gardner, Oak Flooring; Burdett Green, Veneer and Walnut; J. J. Egan, Walnut; Colin Stokes, Veneer; O. L. Appleton, M. W. Stark, William Lucas and L. G. Sterett, Woodwork; rH. A. Taylor, Raymond L. Vaughne, Will H. Cain, J. G. Kennedy and J. P. Williams, Special Woodwork; F. C. Thomas, Veneer, Plywood and Commercial Veneer; M. C. Wilkinson, Commercial Veneer and Plywood; A. D. Patchen and Alexander D. King, Veneer and Plywood; E. D. Knight, R. F. Kulmer and Thomas D. Perry, Plywood; Everett A. Thornton, Wooden Package; J. F. Atwood, H. L. Pease, V. J. Vallette, J. H. Dunning and L. F. Powell, Sawed Box; Robert D. Magill and W. C. Meyer, Plywood Package; Russell W. Bennett, Standard Container; Robert W. Davis, Veneer Package; A. A. Hadden, Northwest Shook Group of Sawed Box Subdivision; Charles McGrath, Red Cedar Shingle; J. D. Giles and Clarence W. Kraus, Stained Shingle; W. W. Schupner, National American Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association; C. H. Ritchie, W. M. Ritter, O. W. Cookman, Frank James, Harvey H. Long, J. A. McGill, W. A. King and A. S. Wheele.

BACK AT MAIN OFFICE

Max E. Cook, agricultural engineer, The Pacific Lumber Company, who has spent several months at Scotia, is again making his headquarters at the company's main office in San Francisco.

LUMBER YARD FOR SALE

Los Angeles and Southern California lumber yards for sale. Address Box C-480, Care California Lumber Merchant.

YARD MANAGER WANTED

Yard Manager wanted for medium sized yard in Metro- politan area. Address Box C-496, California Lumber Merchant.

WANTED

Wanted a bookkeeper and office manager who can invest five or ten thousand dollars in small yard located. in growing city. Address Box C-493, California Lumber Mer_ chant.

Meet With Los Angeles Wholesalers

Frank J. O'Connor, L. C. Stewart and M. L. Euphrat, of San Francisco, representing a committee of the Northern District of the California Wholesale Lumber Association, met rvith the Los Angeles wholesale lumber dealers on Oc_ tober 2. The meeting. was devoted to a discussion of the Lumber Code.

CHANGE OF OFFICE

The Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co. has moved their Los Angeles office from Room 305 to Room 429 L|nion Insurance Building. Their telephone number remains the same -YAndyke 8792.

BRUCE CLARK VISITS CALIFORNIA

Bruce Clark, vice president and general manager of El_ liott Bay Mill Co., Seattle, plywood manufacturers, arrived in Oakland October 9 to spend a week calling on the trade in Northern and Southern California in company with Lloyd Harris of Elliott Bay Sales Co.

cEoRGE J. OSGOOD VTSTTS LOS ANGELES

George J. Osgood, in charge of sales for the Henry McCleary Timber Co., McCleary, 'Wash., spent a few days in Los Angeles around the first of the month. He had just returned from a three months' business trip through the East. He left for the Northwest on October 4.

INJURED IN AUTO ACCIDENT

Lloyd Hebbron of the Hebbron Lumber Co., Santa Cruz, was badly injured in an automobile accident on the Coast Highway September 20. Mr. Hebbron,s left arm was amputated in Santa Maria hospital as a result of the injury.

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