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make for closer utilization of the present hardwood product of the 

 country. 



The total cost of this service to Hakdwood Eecord in the past 

 years has been approximately $50,000, but it is a service that is 

 so invaluable to lumber manufacturers, merchants and consumers 

 alike that this publication feels amply repaid in its painstaking 

 effort in making this expenditure on behalf of its advertising 

 clients, and will continue to keep the service corrected up-to-date 

 at all times. 



In this connection it may be noted that Haedwood Record 

 considers itself highly complimented that the National Hardwood 

 Lumber Association is making an attempt to duplicate this copy- 

 righted service in pamphlet form for the benefit of its members. 

 The association has already published its first bulletin. 



It may also be noted in this connection that Habdwood Becord 

 also issues a corresponding set of bulletins covering annual require- 

 ments in veneers and panels for the benefit of that element of the 

 lumber industry. This register to date shows the requirements 

 of about 750 buyers. 



To those who are responsible for the marketing of lumber and 

 veneers, this service is invaluable, because from the card index 

 system in which both are arranged, it is possible to instantly refer 

 to the buyers of any kind of hardwood lumber, dimension stock, 

 veneers or panels that are being consumed by the leading concerns 

 of the country, and hence it is 

 very easy to reach the trade 

 directly interested in any par- 

 ticular item of stock that the 

 manufacturer or merchant has to 

 market. 



Sabotage Illustrated 



'T'HE INDUSTRIAL WORK- 

 ■*■ ER, published at Spokane, 

 Wash., and an organ of the In- 

 dustrial Workers of the World, 

 and further an organ particularly 

 interested in the lumber industry, 

 contained in a recent issue an 

 article, entitled "Don't Do It 

 Boys." The article is a sarcas- 

 tically and rather cleverly worded 

 "warning" to members of the 

 Industrial Workers of the World 



not to indulge in what is termed "sabotage" in effecting what this 

 organization considers justifiable action in the interests of the woods 

 worker. 



While the article is so cleverly worded that it could not technically 

 be condemned as malicious literature, still the meaning is too easily 

 discernible to admit of any possible misinterpretation of its purpose. 



The malicious intent of the members of this infamous order, as 

 exemplified in the particular article referred to, can best be appre- 

 ciated by reading what the writer of that article considers a definition 

 of "sabotage." As noted, it was published under the title "Don't 

 Do It Boys, ' ' and runs as follows : 



We are sure that no self-respecting lumber worker would ever resort 

 to that terrible thing called sabotage. We wish to warn all workers 

 Hgainst it. 



You don't know what sabotage is, you say? Well, perhaps it is best 

 to tell you so that you may take warning. 



Sabotage in the woods might mean working slow on the Job. You 

 wouldn't do that, would you? Never. It is against the interest of 

 We.yerhauser, Clark, Kirby and Long. You love these gentlemen, don't 

 you? 



Sabotage may mean displacing the tools where they are not easily 

 found. Promise us that you will never do that. The day workers espe- 

 cially should never resort to such an infamous thing. 



Sabotage may mean that logs are cut shorter than the required size. 

 When the boss shortens your pay you should never shorten the lumber, 

 for his daughter may desire to purchase a diseased count from across 

 the ocean, and you know your interests are identical. What a pleasure 

 It is to be allowed to support a count ! 



Sabotage may mean the driving of spikes into the logs or even into the 

 trees. Some uncivilized loggers have threatened to drive a 20-penny 

 spike a day for every nickel that is cut from their wages. Terrible ! No 



good, honest, Christian, gentlemanly logger would do anything like that. 

 It isn't good for mill saws. 



Don't use sabotage, and for your kind forbearance we feel sure that 

 you will receive a suitable reward. The boss may be generous enough 

 to cut your wages so as to .save you the trouble of spending so much, 

 and lengthen your hours so that the devil may And no mischief for idle 

 bands to do. 



For the love of your boss and the 

 sabotage. 



glory of your soul, don't use 



:UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIAL= 



Xifees! tfte i^ecorb 



There surely must be some means of preventing the issuance 

 through the mails of such literature, which is essentially and unde- 

 niably against the interests of society. While it is designed to be 

 read only by a very limited percentage of a class of labor, which 

 while considerable numerically, is relatively not unusually significant 

 in its importance, nevertheless such writings illustrate one of the 

 many insidious methods employed by the Industrial Workers of the 

 World to stir up a feeling of class hatred, which is entirely unjusti- 

 fiable and unjustified. While the bulk of the laboring body is 

 undoubtedly made up of fair-minded and thinking citizens who will 

 not be influenced by such rank publication, still there is a consider- 

 able element, as there is in every body of men, who are naturally 

 attracted by the spectacular and the fire-brand arguments of men 

 whose personalities and wills are strong enough to dominate their 

 mind. 



This element is sufficiently important to cause an inestimable 



amount of trouble in sawmill 

 operations, and if the growth of 

 such an element can be cheeked 

 by a censure of its printed organ 

 this censure should be effected. 



Westminster, Md., March 17, 1913. 

 Editor HARDWOOD RECORD, Chicago, III. 



Dear Sir: I enjoy your paper very much. It should be 

 read by every lumberman. 

 With kindest regards, 



Yours truly, 



H. L. FRIZZELL. 



yi 



An Experiment in 

 Conservation 



■•HE SINGER MANUFAC- 

 TURING COMPANY is one 

 of the largest hardwood lumber 

 consuming institutions in the 

 country, and in addition to its 

 various manufacturing plants lo- 

 cated in this and foreign coun- 

 tries, is a large manufacturer of 

 lumber and veneers. This com- 

 pany has important timber hold- 

 ings and several sawmill plants 

 in Arkansas, and is now making 

 plans for an experiment in better utilization of its forest by reducing 

 its small-sized timber, of which it has a large quantity, to core-making 

 material. 



The plans for this equipment involve logging the small timber, 

 running from nine to fourteen inches in diameter, in full log 

 lengths and transporting it in this form to a new plant near one 

 of its sawmills at Trumann, Ark. At this plant the "poles" will 

 be cross-cut to six feet lengths, which is a length rendering itself 

 the most adaptable for the company's purposes. The bolts will 

 be sawed into seven-eighth-inch lumber, cut "live" and unedged, 

 and the resultant product piled onto dry-kOn trucks and steamed 

 under pressure through a Kraetzer Preparator, kiln-dried, and 

 then forwarded to a cutting room where the stock will be reduced 

 to material for core stock, and built up into cores for sewing 

 machine tables three-quarters of an inch in thickness. Then it 

 will be shipped to the various plants in which the stock is 

 veneered. The company proposes to use for this core stock oak, 

 gum and other woods indiscriminately, and will start off its plant 

 with a daily output of 35,000 feet. 



This plan certainly means an increase of lumber output from 



small timber, the tops of large timber, etc., of well towards 3,000 



feet to the acre, and is an example that can safely be duplicated 



' by many other important hardwood lumber manufacturing bouses. 



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