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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Sentemher 10. IftlJt 



war, we converted our units of construction into units of destruction; 

 mass play predominated. In the great war only one General is con- 

 spicuous; the liberty loans massed and aroused the people; we put 

 men into uniforms; massed industries to assist the government to 

 produce the essentials ; farms were brought to the highe-st point of pro- 

 duction; new governmental bureaus were created — unity of action for 

 mass play so that we would win the war. Some would continue these 

 conditions as the permanent social order of the United States, but 

 others see the necessity of a thorough revision of that plan. 



The Department of Labor at Washington was represented by Roland 

 B. Mahany, assistant secretary of labor. ,1. F. ZoUer represented the 

 National Conference of State Manufacturers' Association; and an 

 address by S. T. Bledsoe, general counsel for the Atchison, Topeka & 



Santa Fe Railway, closed the first day of the conference, except that at 

 the open forum which convened at S \i. m., many five minute talks of 

 an informal nature were given by delegates, and a more extended ad- 

 dress by W. H. Manss, former director of the war service conunittees 

 of the War Industries Board. 



The first half of the second day of the conference was filled with 

 addresses by J. P. Orr, president of the Potter Shoe Company, Cin- 

 cinnati; T. E. Fleming, of the Prairie Farmer Publishing Company, 

 Chicago; L. C. Boyle, counsel of the National Lumber Manufacturers' 

 Association; Thomas Creigh, general attorney of the Cudahy Packing 

 Company, Chicago ; Charles Piez, president of the Link Belt Company, 

 Chicago, and R. D. Oviatt, Rochester, N. Y. 



Notes of National Interest 



.\<-cor(liuK to the New York Trihune, Lftndcin hankers anticipate a fur- 

 ther ibHtp in sterling exchange, but consi<ier ^4 the lowest possible rate. 



.Vccording to figures prepared b.v the Canadian Department of Labor, a 

 total of 1-1,127,220 da.vs have been lost through strikes; from 1901 to 1919. 

 I'utting the niininiuni wage at $3 a da.v the department estimates that 

 workingmeu of Canada have lost at least .$4.^.000,000 during that period. 



An annouiicenient from I'itt.st)iirgh states that an e.\tensive campaign of 

 house Ijiiilding is planned in the Tittsburgh district by large corporatit)ns 

 to aid in holding skilled and unskilled labor. 



The Kailroa<i Administration announces that two of the fort.v 2.000-ton 

 barges built for use on the lower Missis.sippi river have been delivered. 

 Other deliveries will follow shortl.v. It also announces that according to a 

 report on overseas traffic made to Director (leneral Ilines for the week 

 ended August 20. 1919. O.IOS cars of commercial export freight were re- 

 ceived at North Atlantic ports as compared with 1.031 cars for the same 

 week of 1918. This is an increase of 5,077 cars, or 492%, for the week 

 ^nded August 20. 1919, as again.st the same period last .year. Deliveries 

 to ships increased 4,712 cars, or 392%. 



It is announced from Boston that the part to lie [ila.yed by the clearing 

 house in domestic and world reconstruction is to be the keynote of ad- 

 dresses at the forthconiing annual meeting of the clearing htmse section 

 of the American Bankers' .\ssociation, to be held in St. Louis, September 

 30 and October 1. 



The Tiondon Tinu's announces that there is a net deficit of more than 

 2,500.000 tons of British shipping, and it will take shipyards fifteen 

 months, working at' the best rate of production, to bring the tonnage up to 

 the point where it was immediately before the outbreak of the war. 



The Federal Trade Information Service on Septemlier 5. stated that it 

 has developed that a plan for the introduction of nation-wide profit-sh-\r- 

 ing will be considered at President Wilson's labor conference. 



The 'Wall Street .Tournal, September 5, in a comprehensive article under 

 the title of "Our Trade Since 1914 — An Economic 'ft'onder," states that in 

 the last five years the United States has sold to the rest of the world 

 practically $20,500,000,000 worth of goods, of which Europe took some 

 .f 17,750,000,000 worth. It also states that liecause the gold production 

 ■decreased froui Ii;79.192.1ti4 in 1903. record year, to .$30.050. 220 in 1917, 

 Australian g(dd producers are asking for a sulisidy of five dollars an ounce 

 on their output. 



Director (general Ilines announces tliat detailed statistics will shortly 

 lieconu- available of operating results lor the month of .July of practically 

 all Class I railroads and large terminal companies in federal operation. 

 These results will indicate that the net operating Income for July was 

 about .$77,000,000. The net gain to government on account of these prop- 

 erties for July was about .$2,000,000. Thi' net loss for seven months end- 

 ing July 31, 1919, wa.s $290,520,307. 



It is announceil that a conference called by President 'Wilson to discuss 

 relations lietween labor and Industry will meet in Washington Oitober 

 and will be composeil of five persons selected Ijy the Chamber of Commerce 

 of the United States, five by the National Industrial Conference Board, 

 fifteen by the .Vnn'rican Federation of Labor, three by farming organiza- 

 tions, three by investment bankers, and fifteen representatives of the pub- 

 lic. President Wilson will select the latter. 



The report of a conunittee of the New 'i'ork State Federation of Labor. 



made iiublic September 1. recommends the suspension of all strikes thr'ongh- 



■ out the United States and a declaration of a iabiu- trnci' on the basis of thc> 



status quo for six months or more to enable I'resident Wilson to briim 



about a reduction in cost of living. 



According to a report compiled by a confi-rcnce of representatives of 

 the lines, feileral operation of New p]ngland railroads has resulted in an 

 annual deficit of .$23,340,000, and expenses have increased so much more 

 proportionately than revenues that there is not now enough left to keep 

 roads s^dvenl. 



J. II. Tregoe. secretary-tr 



men, has .sent a letter to its mendters urging a<loption of a national lalior 

 policy that will not only recognize but compel good faith and honor in 

 contractual relations of employer and employe, in which personal rights 

 to hire and to discharge at will and to leave and to strike at will, are 

 subordinated to law. the provision of a medium that will require observance 

 of contracts and granting of conditions that spell fair play to all alike. 



The War Trade Board secretary announces tliat, effective Septemi>er 2, 

 1919, resumption of trade and comnumication between the United States 

 antl Hungary has been authorized. 



It is announced from Boston that within the last few weeks there has 

 reached this country the first substantial tonnage of potash from Alsace- 

 Lorraine. Analyses by importers, large fertilizer manufacturers, show it 

 ti) l)e of the same grade as that imported before the war. 



Announcement is made that Americanization work among foreign-born 

 employes of Chicago industrial plants, conducted by a committee on Amer- 

 icanization of the Chicago .\ssociatlon of Commerce, in collaboration with 

 the Board of Education, has grown remarkably since it was started a year 

 ago. More than 0.000 students are attending 65 classes, which hold 156 

 sessions weekl.v in 30 different plants. 



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Warns Further Against Export Consignment 



Tlie lumber trade interested in exports has been in receipt during 

 the last week of additional warnings against shipping on consignment, 

 and even the most optimistic members now admit that the situatioik 

 on the other side has become unsatisfactory, if not actually bad. Har- 

 vey M. Dickson, secretary of the National Lumber Exporters' Associa- 

 tion, has been the recipient of cablegrams, advising strongly that no 

 shijiments be made on consignment and pointing out that the condi- 

 tions in the United Kingdom are such as to expose shippers who dis- 

 regard the warnings to heavy losses. Other advices that have come 

 to hand point out that on August 1 there were not less than 6,500,000 . 

 feet of unused government stock on hand, and that since then some 

 500,000 feet have been sold at public auction, with perhaps another 

 100,000 feet in other ways, leaving the great bulk of the govermnent 

 accumulations still on the market. As further evidence of the conges- 

 tion at British ports information received by John L. Alcock & Co., ex- 

 porters of Baltimore, Md., is to the effect that about two or three weeks 

 ago not less than 73 vessels lay in the stream at Liverpool, unaljle to 

 go up to the dock, all of these vessels carrying lumber in greater or 

 lesser volume. Of the total 36 steamers were from North Atlantic 

 ports, not including two or three of the United States Shipping Com- 

 mission 's craft with full cargoes of lumber. 



Some firm orders are coming out to be sure, but they are for special 

 sizes and stocks of a kind not to be found among the heavy shipments 

 that have been made. On these orders fair returns are realized, but 

 they are not for a moment to be confounded with the great bulk of the 

 shipments that are sent on under consignment, and that have no place 

 in the trade. 



One steamer, the West Tacook, sailing from Baltimore last week for 

 Liverpool, carried 98,036 pieces of lumber, or an aggregate of 589,469 

 feet, together with 130 bags of hardwood billets and 6,092 bundles of 

 handles; while another, the Parthenia, for Glasgow, took out 17,091 

 pieces of lumber, totaling 133,511 feet, and a third, the Yukon, for 

 London, carried 14,351 pieces of lumber, totaling 17.'?,663 feet. 



