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a weakeuhig provision as the law sliould be specifically a com- 

 pulsory bill as to both employers anil employes. 

 The following committees were then appointed: 



COMMITTEE ON NOMINATION'S 



U. R. Foster. Malrern. Ark., Yellow Fine Manufacturers' Association. 



William Irvine, Chippewa i'alls. Wis., Northern Pine Manufacturers' 

 Association. 



A. T. Gerrans. Houma, La., Southern Cvpress Manufacturers' Association. 



Edward Hamaf. Chassell, Mich., Northern Hemlock and Hardwood Manu- 

 facturers' Association. 



William E. DeLaney, Cincinnati, O.. Hardwood Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion. 



F. L. Richardson, Alpena, Mich., Michigan Hardwood Manufacturers' As- 

 sociation. 



F. E. Waymer. .Tacksonville, Fla., Georgia-Florida Saw Mill Association. 



W. B. Roper, Norfolk, Va., North Carolina Pine Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion. 



Thorpe Babcock, Tacoma, Wash., West Coast Lumber Manufacturers' As- 

 socir.tion. 



A. W. Cooper, Spokane. Wash., Western Pine Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion. 



COMMITTEE ON EESOLUTIONS 



Charles Keith, Chairman, Kansas City, Mo., Yellow Pine Manufacturers' 

 Association. 



Edward Hines, Chicago, 111., Northern Pine Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion. 



George B. Watson, New Orleans, La.. Southern Cypress Manufacturers' 

 Association. 



W. C. Landon. Wausau. Wis., Northern Hemlock and Hardwood Manu- 

 facturers' Association. 



Bruce Odell, Cadillac, Mich., Michigan Hardwood Manufacturers' As- 

 sociation. 



W. B. Roper, Norfolk, Va., North Carolina Pine Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion. 



Thorpe Babcock, Tacoma, Wash., West Coast Lumber Manufacturers' 

 Association. 



K. G. Keiger, Spokane, \^'ash.. Western Pine ^lanufacturers' Association. ' 



F. E. Waymer. Jacksonville, Fla., Georgia-Florida Saw Mill Association. 



John H. Himmelberger. Cape Girardeau, Mo., Hardwood Manufacturers' 

 Association. 



AUDITING C0M5IITTEE 



O. L. Benway, Hammond, La. 

 Huntington Taylor. Cloquett, Minn. 

 R. G. Keiger. Spokane. Wash. 



C0.M51ITTEE O.X CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS 



Charles A. Goodman. Marinette, Wis:, Northern Hemlock and Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association, 



O. O. Axley, Warren. Ark.. Yellow Pine Manufacturers' Association. 



R. G. Chisholm, Minneapolis, Minn.. Northern Pine .Manufacturers' As- 

 sociation. 



After announcements by the secretary, the meeting adjourned 

 until 2:30. 



TUESDAY AFTEENOON SESSION 



The afternoon session was opened by reports from the various 

 affiliated associations. Of all the reports those given by dele- 

 gates of the Northeru Hemlock and Hardwood Manufacturers' 

 Association and the Michigan Hardwood Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion, E. S. Kellogg and Bruce Odell, respectively, were the most 

 specific and interesting. Mr. Odell talked on "Association Effi- 

 ciency," emphasizing the necessity for efficient secretaries. 



On the whole the reports indicated that the lumber business 

 is in a very fair shape with prices holding well in all lines, with 

 the exception of yellow pine. Confidence in the future of busi- 

 ness in general was expressed. The reports demonstrated that 

 the affiliated associations have done a great deal of valuable work 

 in the past year. 



E. F. Perry, secretary of the National Wholesale Lumber Deal- 

 ers' Association, was asked to address the meeting. He said that 

 his association has members in all but one of the affiliated asso- 

 ciations, and that he felt that he really was a member of the 

 National Lumber Manufacturers' Association. Mr. Perry sug- 

 gested the advisability of greater co-operation between the Na- 

 tional Lumber Manufacturers' and his association, saying that 

 a great deal of time and money is wasted in the duplication of 

 effort to effect certain required things. One of these is the mat- 

 ter of credits. He said that a great deal of the work of the two 

 associations is parallel. Other instances are those of railroad 

 overweights, increased freight rates, shingle count, etc. In all 

 these matters, according to Mr. Perry, the two associations have 

 been pulling singly rather than together, and the result has not 

 been as satisfactory as it would have been if they had co-operated 

 closely. 



Speaking of business conditions he said that while he had heard 

 of over-production and consequent lowering of prices, conditions 

 in the eastern territory show that the present easing of prices is 

 but temporary and he thinks there is no just occasion for worry. 

 He said that the demand has fallen off somewhat, but that it 

 should not result in forcing markets as it is but seasonable. He 

 suggested that there should be some means of holding lumber 



during dull periods so that the market would not be flooded. 

 Speaking further of co-operation, Mr. Perry said that such work- 

 ing together should effect a mental attitude that would work 

 to the great benefit of the trade at large. He added that as far 

 as he can see manufacture is not going on any faster than con- 

 sumption. 



The speaker concluded by pleading for more detailed and sin- 

 cere reports on credits. 



After a few words of announcement from Secretary Rhodes, 

 Edward A. Hamar, of Chassell, Mich., delivered an address on 

 "A Forest Products Exposition," which appears as a special 

 article in this issue. 



Speaking along the lines outlined by Mr. Hamar, Dr. Von 

 Schrenck, of St.v Louis, said that he has observed in the last two 

 years a change in the attitude of the public toward lumber, which 

 is instanced in the opposition to lumber shingles. It is mostly the 

 result of erroneous information published in the newspapers, he 

 stated, such as derogatory comments on wooden cars, poles, etc. 

 He said that because of lack of knowledge of the different prop- 

 erties of wood, architects are in many cases coming to feel a dis- 

 tinct animosity towards wooden construction. They have per- 

 mitted builders to erect certain structures with entirely un- 

 suited classes and sizes of timber and lumber, which have not 

 stood the test because unsuited to the conditions imposed. He 

 said that there is a distinct feeling in the public mind that the 

 quality of lumber and timber available is not anywhere near 

 what it used to be, and said that the time is here when this 

 opposition must be met squarely by telling the public the actual 

 facts in the case. He said there should be a centralized bureau 

 for publicity of the matter. 



Dr. Von Schrenck said that he had talked with a railroad en- 

 gineer regarding bridge construction and that this engineer said 

 specifically that a properly constructed wooden bridge of medium 

 size is cheaper to erect and to maintain than a similar steel struc- 

 ture. 



Secretary Rhodes then read the report of the committee on 

 standard sizes, which is shown in part as follows: 



Report of Committee on Standard Sizes 



Naturally the different lumber producing territories bad constructed 

 patterns such as were required by the trade for the different uses, which 

 in time developed into well established standards, and gradually extended 

 into larger consuming territories calling for various kinds of lumber. As 

 these different territories commenced to overlap the difficulties relative to 

 different standards of manufacture In the same class of lumber became 

 noticeable. Through the necessity of dealers having to keep- separately 

 the various sizes of like patterned stock, there at once developed a demand, 

 on the part of the dealer especially, that future shipments should be of 

 stock which would conform to that which he most largely carried on 

 hand. This resulted in requiring the manufacturers to produce such 

 standard sizes of manufactured lumber for the different territories 

 into which he shipped his lumber in competition with other kinds 

 of lumber. As most of this lumber was used for the same purposes, 

 there existed no sound reason for a continuance of different finishing 

 sizes or styles of working. Naturally, many efforts have been made 

 toward establishing a single standard of manufacture for the same cla.ss 

 of lumber, though it be produced from several species of timber. The 

 main difficulty in this effort became evident in trying to decide which of 

 the standards in use was the most practical. The determination was also 

 made difficult on account of the large amount of worked stock in the 

 hands of both the dealer and the manufacturer, and therefore the de- 

 sired progress has not been made in this direction — such as should be in 

 keeping with the increased use of one wood over another — as, for instance, 

 that which has occurred in the extended use of yellow pine lumber grad- 

 ually entering comparatively all parts of the United States. We. how- 

 ever, have this result, that the standard sizes of dressed lumber used 

 by the Yellow Pine Manufacturers' Association are best known and most 

 generally used. Notwithstanding that those standards are most widely 

 used and known, there today exist differences in standards used by mem- 

 bers, of other manufacturers' associations producing the same kind of 

 lumber — the differences, however, are comparatively few. Owing to the 

 general use of yellow pine, its production being about fifty per cent of 

 all the principal woods produced in the United States, the manufacturers 

 of Pacific coast forest products were influenced to adopt, in the main, the 

 same dressing rules which now in practical effect apply to about sixty 

 per cent of the total amount of commonly used lumber manufactured. 

 Most of the variations now exist in sizes. Consequently there should not 

 be much difficulty in having the different associations consider modifica- 

 lions which wmild obviously show for economy in production. 



