Proposes Plan To Reduce Unemployment

L. E. Kunkler, president of the Pacific National Lumber Company, Los Angeles, has sent out a letter to all the California and Arizona woodworking and furniture traiJe, as well as to the wholesale and retail furniture associations, lumber and millwork associations. to many nationallv known manufacturers, and boards of trade, chambers of commerce,, etc., proposing a plan looking to the reduction of unemployment.

The proposal is that all the firms to whom it is submitled shall agree to ,restore their payrolls for the month of December, 1930, to the status existing in December, L929. A pqstscript to the proposal states that it is the purpose of the Pacific National Lumber Company to insist that every employee on its enlarged payroll during the month of December shall pledge himself to purchase in that month not less than glo worth of some article of furniture, radio or other wood product. It is also the policy of the company to insist that every employee who rlceives an increaie in salary, due to the reinstated 1929 rate of pay, must invest not less than 50 per cent of the increase in some wood product.

In order to help the idea carr.v, the company suggests that the recipients shall adclress a similar letter to their patrons and also fifty unaffiliated manufacturers in their respective localities, and also to at least fifty manufactrtrers of nitional prominence in the United States at large, as well as to trventy-five trade associations. The reaion given by the company for this prooosal is that "if the preient buiiness condition is a state of mind, such action on our oart and your part will improve the state of mind.

"If the present business condition is a state of fact, the adoption of this plan by the majority of manufacturers of America will'help to correct the adverse facts.

"It is possible that the increased employment which lvould result may so stimulate business ai to make it not only p-gssible, but profitable to employ beyond December 31, 1930, a large portion of the men restoied to the payroll.

"It rvould certainly have the effect of providing many hundreds of thousands of _unemployed people an o'pportu- nity to happily celebrate the Chiisimas-season, atrd io enter into this rvinter rvith some money in their pockets.',

Los Angeles Hoo Hoo

Christmas Party

^.Los Angeles Hoo Hoo Club No. 2 will again play Santa Claus to the tubercular children at the Oli-ve View Sanatorium, San Fernando, Calif., on Monday, December 22. tast year, the Club remembered the childien with a year,s subscription to 2O magazines, 200 books, Christmai tree decorations, and also started a playground fund with a donation.o{ $75, with rvhich seveial-swings were bought for the children.

The committee this year plans to renew the subscriptions for the various magazines, purchase more books, arri buy more equipment for the playground. The members wiil meet at the Kerckhoff-Cuzner Milt & Lumber Co. ofifice, San Fernando, at 2 p.^.on Monday afternoon, December 22, and,.then proceed to the sanatorium. The following committee is arranging for the affair: R. S. Osgood, prJsident of Hoo Hoo Club No.2, chairman; A. WIKoehl, W. B. Wickersham, Cliff Estes, T. B. Lawren,ce. Harry V. Hanson, Floy_d Dernie_r, Glenn Billheimer, Frank Cuiran, A. L. Hoover, Herman Bosenberg, B. W. Byrne, kenneth Smith, Ross Blanchard, Carl Shufilt and I. E. Martin.

EXTENDS TO ITS FRIENDS IN THE LUMBER TRADE OF THE GREAT SOUTHWEST BEST II'ISHES FOR A