CAMPBEIJIJ - CONRO ITUMBER CO.

Manufacturers and Wholesalers of West Coast Woods Piling and Poles, Fir and Cedar

Pittock Block, Portland 5, Oregon

Incentive \Vage Cases

Portland, Ore., Oct. 2-Following a three-day conference with representatives of the War Production Board and the West Coast Lumber Commission, a number of remaining wage incentive cases will be reviewed by the War Production Board before action is taken by the War Labor Board, Walter Durham, public member of the Lumber Commission, and J. Carroll Shoe, Regional Management Consultant of the War Production Board, announced in a joint statement today.

Although employers and unions are free to agree on wage and salary increases under National War Labor Board General Order 40, the establishment of incentive or contract rates is still subject to prior approval of the War Labor Board under its General Order 38, according to Durham.

"Because of the impending termination of the War Labor Board, not all of the undecided wage incentive cases can be accorded the customary joint review by the War Production Board and the Lumber Commission, Durham said. "Plans for disposing of other remaining cases and any new cases which may be filed with the Lumber Commission have not yet been developed."

In ruling on incentive wage cases, the West Coast Lumber Commission exercises the delegated authority of the National War Labor Board in the lumber and timber basic products industries of California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana.