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HARDWOOD RECORD 



October 10, 1919 



Clubs and Associations 



Call for Fall Meeting at Detroit 



The fall meeting uf the -Michigan Hardwood Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion will be held at the Hotel Statler, Detroit, Mich., Thursday, October 

 23. 1019, at 9 a. m. 



In addition to the reports on market conditions and various other sub- 

 jects "will be the consideration of the lumber questionnaire of the United 

 States Treasury Department. It is suggested that the principals bring 

 with them the members of their organizations who will have charge of the 

 preparation of the answers to the questionnaire in order that they may be 

 the better prepared to make their statements. 



The meeting has been called an hour earlier in order to get all business 

 transacted before attending meeting of the Treasury otficials to, be held 

 at the Pontchartrain hotel later in the day. 



The market conditions committee meeting will be held at the Hotel 

 Statler, Wednesday, October 22, at 10 a. m., to which all members are 

 invited. 



Dates for Open Competition Meeting 



Here are the dates for the monthly open competition plan meetings of 

 the American Hardwood Manufacturers' Association for the current 

 month, as announced by F. E. Gadd, manager of statistics : 



Cincinnati, Hotel Sinton, October 7 ; Memphis, Hotel Gayoso, October 

 10; Shreveport. La., October 15; Jackson, Miss., October 17; Little Rock, 

 Ark., October 23. 



Manufacturers' Meeting December 16-17 



The second annual of the American Hardwood Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion will he held at the Hotel Chisca, Memphis, Tuesday and Wednesday, 

 December 16-17, according to the decision of the executive committee as 

 announced in Memphis by John M. Prltchard, secretary-manager of this 

 organization. 



In announcing these dates Mr. Pritchard said : 



The association has grown by leaps and bounds since the last annual 

 meeting, having received to date 117 new applications for membership in 

 the various departments. The sec(tnd annual will be by far the most inter- 

 esting this association has ever held. All are invited to attend and par- 

 ticipate in the proceedings, whether they are members of this organiza- 

 tion or not. 



The membership is nearly 400 now, and it is anticipated that there will 

 lie a number present who are not now identified with the association. 



No program has yet been given out. Mr. Pritchard, however, is author- 

 ity for the statement that subjects of vital interest to the hardwood lum- 

 ber industry will be discussed and acted upon at that time. 



Memphis Club Discusses Labor Conditions 



The labor situation, as affecting the hardwood lumber industry of Mem- 

 phis, will be the chief topic of discussion at the meeting of the Lumber- 

 men's Club of Memphis, scheduled for the Hotel Gayoso at 1 o'clock Satur- 

 day afternoon, October 11. George R. James, who was a member of the 

 National Council of Defense and who on October 6 attended the indus- 

 trial conference in Washington, held for the purpose of working out a plan 

 for more satisfactory relations between capital and labor, will address 

 the meeting. He will outline a plan he has in mind for improving living 

 conditions for those who work in the sawmills of Memphis and other 

 industrial establishments here. This calls for the payment by employers, 

 whether lumbermen or others, of .^2 per annum for every man on their pay- 

 roll. This fund is to be further supplemented and is to be used for the 

 purpose of improving living conditions of employes. Col. S. B. Anderson, 

 chairman of the special committee handling this subject for the club, has 

 pledged the lumbermen to this plan. He is authority for the statement 

 that Memphis must have more labor for its sawmills and other enterprises 

 because of the growth in the number of plants but that, just when there 

 is an increased demand tor labor, large numbers of workmen are leaving 

 Memphis and going to Chicago, Detroit and other Industrial centers North 

 and East, where they are able to secure more pay and where they fancy 

 they will And conditions more to their liking. He believes that this 

 tendency of negroes to migrate to other parts of the country must be 

 checked, and he believes that it can be more effectually checked in this 

 way than in any other. 



The club, at the meeting Saturday, September 27, the flr.st for the fall 

 season, had the pleasure of entertaining six members of the Swiss Economic 

 Commission, who had spent several days in this city looking over the 

 lumber mills, the cotton warehouses and other industrials and studying 

 methods used here for the production of lumber, for the handling of cot- 

 ton, lumber and other commodities and for growing cotton. Arnold Bally, 

 head of the textile group, spoke briefly, thanking the club for the courtesy 

 extended him and associates and likewise thanking the lumbermen for the 

 assistance given them in studying the lumber industry here in its various 

 phases. H. Zwickey of Zwlckey & Co., Schindellegi, Switzerland, was the 

 only lumberman in the mission. 



The club voted unanimously to levy an assessment of $10 on each active 

 member to make up the deficit in the finances of this organization result-, 

 ing, as one member facetiously remarked, from the "high cost of enter- 

 taining." 



John Shippen of the Hayden & Westcott Lumber Company, Chicago, 



was elected an active member. Five applications for membership were 

 filed with the club. 



The house committee reported that it had received 290 appllcationfi for 

 positions in the lumber industry during the summer interim and that 107 

 had been permanently placed with lumber firms. Inclmled In the number 

 are three young men who are learning the lumber business. 



The committee charged with gathering accurate information regarding 

 the amount of money lumbermen had employed to help win the war, 

 including contributions to the various war work funds and Investment in 

 Liberty bonds and war savings stamps, said that it had received returns 

 from only 114 of the 206 members of this organization. These 114, it 

 was shown, had put up practically $2,000,000. The committee was 

 instructed to make further efforts to secure returns from all members. 

 When this information is obtained it will be used in preparing a memorial 

 tablet. 



Lieutenant-Colonel 11. B. Anderson of Memphis, who was to have told 

 of his experiences during nrore than a year of service in France, will 

 not make his address until the meeting next Saturday. 



Attendance at this meeting was fairly large. The usual luncheon was 

 served. 



Rotary Veneer Men Meet 



Members of the Commercial Rotary Veneer Department of the American 

 Hardwood Manufacturers' Association met at the Hotel Chisca, Memphis, 

 on September 22. The attendance included most of the prominent rotary 

 veneer manufacturers of the country. Three new members were voted 

 into the association. 



The question was brought up of the rotary veneer department employ- 

 ing jointly with the Rotary Cut Box Lumber Manufacturers' Association 

 an official inspector to adjust ail complaints on shipments made by mem- 

 bers of either organization. It was decided after discussion that no 

 definite action would be taken. Discussion of labor brought out the general 

 opinion that labor is plentiful but not so efficient as formerly. The log 

 supply seems to be good for the present, but the effect of the car shortage 

 is already being widely felt. 



On motion by Mr. Martin the secretary was instructed to write to 

 the Quartered Oak Veneer Association which meets in Louisville this 

 month, suggestiug that a thirty-day net rash basis be adopted as terms of 

 sale as now used bj' the Commercial Rotary Veneer Department. 

 National Safety Council Has Record Meeting 



The 8th Annual Safety Congress of the National Safety Council was 

 held at the Hotel Statler, Cleveland, October 1 to 4. All groups of asso- 

 ciations and employers were represented as well as were representatives 

 of employes. The program includes a most comprehensive and complete 

 analysis of industrial hazards coupled with information on causes and 

 ways of preventing. 



The various industries were represented in the pulp and paper section 

 by an imposing array of speakers and subjects, while the woodworking 

 section was equally well represented. J. E. Rhodes, secretary and treas- 

 urer of the Southern Pine Association was chairman of this division, and 

 F. A. Barker, resident manager of the Lumbermen's & Manufacturers' 

 Insurance Agency, Milwaukee, was secretary. Among the subjects dis- 

 cussed in this section were : Safety in Operating Lumber Yards ; Methods 

 of Securing Co-operation of Workmen in Using Safeguards ; Hazards in 

 Box Manufacturing Plants ; Accidents in Logging Operations ; Does It 

 Pay to Employ Safety Engineers in the Woodworking Industry?; Acci- 

 dent Prevention in Canadian Woodworking Plants.. .\ll of these subjects 

 wei'i' h.andU'd by able men who presented them in a most interesting and 

 helpful manner. 



With the Trade 



Death of A. H. Spoor 



Aaron H. Spoor died at his home in Milwaukee on September 22, after 

 a short illness, at the age of eighty-one years. He was president of the 

 Milwaukee Casket Company, Milwaukee, and took active part in the man- 

 agement of the company up to three months before his death. He estab- 

 lished a casket factory in Berlin, Wis., and in ISSl organized the Milwau- 

 kee Casket Company. 



Bob Cooper Forms New Company 



R. T. Cooijer, who has been prominently identified with the Memphis 

 Band Mill Company for a number of years, is to be president and general 

 manager of the West Memphis Lumber Company which has made applica- 

 tion for a chji.rter under the laws of Tennessee and which is to engage in 

 the wholesale handling of hardwood lumber and yellow pine. Offices will 

 be maintained in Memphis while yards will be at West Memphis, Just 

 across the river from this city. West Memphis is served by the Rock 

 Island and Missouri Pacific systems and enjoys excellent transportation 

 facilities. The company is capitalized at $25,000. The Incorporators, 

 besides Mr. Cooper, are : William L. Johnson, R. P. Foppiana, Edward 

 Foppiana and Mrs. R. T. Cooper. Mr. Cooper is one of the best known 

 among the younger lumbermen of Memphis and has been quite actively 

 identified with the Lumbermen'.s Club of Memphis and other organizations 

 ■working always for the betterment of the lumber industry. His many 

 friends are congratulating him on branching out in business for himself. 



