TWENTY YEAQS AGO

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California retail lumbermen at its convention at the Hotel Whitcomb, San Francisco, on October 28, formed a state-wide association, the California Retail Lumbermen's Association, and elected the following officers: president, C. W. Pinkerton, Whittier; first vice-president, Fred E. Conner, Sacramento; second vice-president, F. Dean Prescott, Fresno; treasurer, Herman Freese, San Francisco.

"Finish Your Home in Hardwood" was the subject of a constructive advertising campaign being conducted by White Brothers, well known San Francisco Bay hardwood distributors. The advertising was designated to reach the trade as well as the consumer.

San Pedro Lumber office building at its Company opened Long Beach yard. a new modern two more yards Santa Rosa and was acquired by the Hammond at San Bernardino to expand their

The Sterling Lumber Company added to its line, the Colombo-Fuller yard at K. Benneche yard at Penngrove.

Additional property Lumber Company yard operations.

Hayward Lumber & Investment Co. erected a new warehouse. 50 bv 100 at San Bernardino feet.

Two lmportant Decisions Made by \(/est Coast Lumber Commission

Both "union security" and the right to remain free were upheld in the first decision rendered October 26 in Portland by the recently created West Coast Lumber Commission, which is empowered to decide all labor disputes in the lumber industry of five Northwest states. Immediately affected were 4,500 workers in the Klamath basin pine industry of Oregon.

Going into force in 15 logging and sawmill operations the Commission order provided:

1. Workers need not join a union to be employed.

2. Employers agreed to approve of their employes joining a union but reserved the right to hire non-union members.

3. Workers who are union members must maintain good standing in the union as a condition of employment.

The Commission decision ended a long controversy between the Pine Industrial Relations Committee, Inc., an employer group, and the Klamath basin district council, No. 6, CIO, International Woodworkers of America.

A second decision was rendered in Portland October 27 by the West Coast Lumber Commission establishing a uniform rate of pay in the Douglas Fir industry for the first time in lumber history.

The Commission ordered an end to lower wage rates paid in the Willamette Valley as compared with other Douglas Fir operations.