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RESOLUTION,S ADOPTED BY WESTERN PLANING MILL CONGRESS

At its closing session, the Congress adopted resolutions providing the following recommendations and endorsements:

Organization of members by local groups or districts.

Adoption of a broad, constructive national forest policy to insure an adequate supply of timber for the nation's use; federal apprdpriations for fire prevention in the forests; the forest service should investigate possibility of growing hardwoods in the West.

Forest Service laboratory should give courses of in-, 'struction in the uses of glue, veneer manufacturing and lumber seasoning; work of laboratory praised.

High schools, polytechnic schools and higher institutions of learning should teach wood-working; a committee from the Congress to co-operate with school authorities.

Apprentice system for planing mills favored.

Vote of thanks to C. D. LeMaster, George M. Cornwall. T. R. Truax, C. L. Hill and W. P. Flint for work prior to and during the rne€ting.

Mr. LeMaster spoke on the objects of the We,stern Planing Mill and Wood-working Congress which he summed up as follows in their relative importance:

1. A permanent co-operative association: this is first, and without irt little could be accomolished.

2. Sandardization becatrse of its economic value.

3. Cost Finding: this is the only basis on which we can determine the true basis of our product.

4. Information bureau to collec't and distribute ,cos.t findings.

5. Apprenticeship training as a safeguard against the shortage of skilled labor.

6. Standard full-mill-bid so that all operators will have an equal opportunity to bid on that class of work.

George M. Cornwall Edi,tor of the Timberman, said that the thought of rthe Convention should be education. He thought that the facilities offered by the High Schools ancl Colleges should be used in training young men for the woodworking business.

C. L. Hill, in charge of the Office of Forest Products, San Francisco gave an interes'ting address on Kiln Dryin,g. He stated that the technology of wood determined the various pr,ocesses employed in the dry kilningr of lumber; also that kiln drying was not all machinery and experience but that it was necessary ,to kn,ow the stru,cture of wood. Mr. Hill showed several slides illustrating the wbod structure. of lumber and their relation to moisture.

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M. S. Warren, of the California Barrel Co., gave an interesting talk on ,the kiln drying of barrel staves.

E. D. Pitcher, President of the San Francis,co Mill Owners' association and manager of the National Mill and Lumber Co., spoke on Organization. He said that Organization played an important part in the Woodworking industry as it was a complicated business and hard to get capable men to handle the various departments. He said that Organization creates a spirit of fair play and should teach us "to live and let live."

Geo. X. Wendling, President of the Pacific Wire Bound Box Co., gave an interesting talk on the early retail organizations in the state and also gave the convention sortre interesting information on the marketing of pr'oducts of the various Fruirt Associations in ,the west. He said that Caliiornia led the Nation in the 'co-operative marketing of its products.

C. E. Cowdin, Nicolai-Neppach Co., Portland, spoke on "How Can We Interest Young Men in the Planing Mill Business?" He said that it would be necessary to encourage the boys and ihat 'this could best be done by improving working conditions and also paying them in a,ccordance to their skill. Owing to the fact that the lumber industry. is one of the largest on the Pacific Coast, he thought that there should be courses in the colleges so as to train the young men in planing mill work.

P. J. McDonald, President of the Los Angeles Planing Mill Co., gave his experiences with dealing with young men in the planing business. Mr. McDonald has followed the planing mill business for forty years and says that in selecting young men entering his organization he prefers young men with a high school education, who live at home, ind that it is absolutely necessary to act kindly towards your employees.