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Strike Ties Up Lumber Schooners

As we go to press about 50 steamers in the coastwise lumber trade are tied up due to a walkout of the Marine Firemen's Union on October 4. The men demand a monthly raise in pay, increased overtime pay, and overtime for Saturday afternoon work. The vessels affected by the strike are operated by members of the Shipowners Association of the Pacific.

A proposal was advanced by Federal conciliators for immediate return to work with half the pay increase demanded by the union, and submission of the remainder of the raise and other questions to a neutral arbiter. The proposal was accepted conditionally by the Shipowners Association, but was turned down by the union membership.

The Marine Cooks and Stewards Union joined the strike on October 10. This made no change in the tie up status as all unions employed on the ships have been idle since the Firemen walked out.

The ind-ustrJ'^ stood at.77 per cent of the seasonal weekly average ol 1929,production 1nd 84 per cent of. average IVIg shipments for the week_ended Slplember 28, according to reports to the National Lumber Manufacturers Associaiion from regional associations.

- 9!rri"g the week ended September 28,479 mills produced 265,394,0N feet of softwoods and hardwoods cbmbined, shipped 289,823,W feet, and booked orders of. 289,576,N0 feet.

Lumber orders reported for the week by 396 softwood mills totaled 2773A5,NO feet, shipments were 276,62,UO feet, and production was 253,O66.000 feet.

Reports from 100 hardwood mills for the week gave new business as 12,271,W feet, shipments 13,161,00 feet, and production 12,328,00O f.eet.

The weekly avirage of West Coast lumber production in September (4 weeks) was L43,278,000 board feet, or 72.8 per cent of the weekly average f.or lV26-1929, the industry's years of highest production, according to the West Coast Lumbermen's Association in its monthly survev of the industry. Orders averaged I63,724,m board fe-et; shipments, I57,879,W. Weekly averages for August were: production, 151,137,000 board f.eet (76.7 per cent of the 1926-I9D average) ; orders, 181,539,000; shipments, 153,194.000.

First 39 weeks of 1940, cumulative production, 5,D3,288,000 board feet; same period, 1939,4,732,839,000; 1938, 3,777,988,W.

Orders for 39 weeks of. 1940 break down as follows: rail, 2,623,158,W board feet; domestic cargo, 2,65,076,ffi0; export, 319,961,000 ; local, 722,320,W.

The industry's unfilled order file stood at 646,585,000 board feet at the end of September; gross stocks, at 865,000.000.

The Western Pine Association for the week ended September 28, 107 mills reporting, gave orders as 105,765,000 feet, shipment 91,948,00O feet, and production 91,896,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 415,228.0ffi f.eet.

The Southern Pine Association for the rveek ended September 28, ll3 mills reporting, gave orders as 37,908,000 feet, shipments 41,428,0@ feet, and production 31,595,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 123.D7,AO0 feet.

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Aberdeen, Warh. Ryder Hanify Hoquiam. Warh, Dorothy Cahill

Aberdeen, Warb, Jane Chrirtentoa

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Edwin Chrigtencon

Catherine G. Suddeo

Eleanor Chrirtenson PORTLAND