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HARDWOOD RECORD 



September 10, 1922 



bring about a duplication in full measure of our historic post World 

 War boom. The burnt ctild remembers the pain of the burning 

 for a time at least, and the searing whicli depression administered 

 is still fresh in everyone's mind. 



Let us conclude by again suggesting that it will be wise for buy- 

 ers of hardwood lumber and veneers to consider an expanding fall 

 business and increasing demand for hardwoods, with rail congestion 

 and car shortage added to relatively small mill stocks. 



A New Declaration of Independence 



IN SECURING THE SWEEPING INJUNCTION that it did 

 against the striking railway shopmen, the United States Govern- 

 ment adopted the course which it was bound to adopt sooner or Ijiter. 

 The arrogance of union labor was fast becoming, in fact had be- 

 come, insufferable, and the Federal Government had either tD take 

 a positive stand against this or surrender to it. The manner in 

 which the shopmen's strike has been conducted is but an acute 

 symptom of a general condition in the ranks of organized labor 

 which has come to challenge the very authority of Government 

 itself. The Government had been put on the defensive and had to 

 defend itself. As loyal citizens, loving the Republic and holding 

 allegiance to it as our first duty, we may be gratified that the 

 Administration had the courage to strike when it did and with the 

 force displayed not only by the Attorney General in his injunction 

 plea, but by the President in his message of August 18. Made bold 

 by its successes during the great war, organized labor was assum- 

 ing to lay down the terms and conditions upon which a citizen of 

 this country may earn the necessities of existence and as well the 

 conditions upon which the Government may protect the citizen in 

 this endeavor. When the President said, "These conditions can 

 not remain in free America," he uttered a new battle cry of 

 American freedom. "If free men cannot toil according to their 

 own lawful choosing," the President continued, "all our consti- 

 tutional guaranties born of democracy are surrendered to mob- 

 ocracy and the freedom of a hundred millions is surrendered to the 

 small minority which would have no law. ' ' In his injunction plea 

 the Attorney General declared that "the right to work in this 

 country is as sacred as the right not to be compelled to work, if 

 a man is not disposed to do so, and every man must be made 



equally secure in his choice No union or combination of 



unions, can, under our laws, dictate to the American union. When 

 the unions claim the right to dictate to the Government and to 

 dominate the American people and deprive the American people of 

 the necessities of life, then the Government will destroy the unions, 

 for the Government of the United States is supreme and must 

 endure. ' ' 



The Attorney General does not believe, however, that it is going 

 to be necessary to destroy the unions. He assumes that there is 

 enough common sense and loyalty in the ranks of union labor to 

 forestall this drastic expedient by a proper submission to law and 

 the common good. This assumption would appear to be correct, but 

 undoubtedly such better counsel could have the opportunity to 

 assert itself only after the Government had demonstrated that it 

 had had enough of anarchy under the guise of unionism. 



Unless union labor in this country has become so utterly bol- 

 shevik that it is determined upon revolution and a dictatorship 

 of tlic proletariat the Government's challenge should mark the 

 beginning of a return to sanity in organized labor. It should lead 

 union labor to take note of its limitations, to a realization that, 

 as the President said, "In this Republic the first obligation and the 

 first allegiance of every citizen, high or low, is to his Government, 

 and to hold that Government to be the just and unchallenged 

 sponsor for public welfare, and the liberty, security and rights of 

 its citizens.' ' 



We believe that the United States Government is still capable of 

 defending itself and that if union labor does not see the light and 

 reform from within it will be reformed from without. At any rate 

 the fight is a good fight and, win or lose, worth any sacrifice that 

 loyal Americans may be called upon to make. "No matter what 

 clouds may gather, no matter what storms may ensue, no matter 

 what hardships may attend or what sacrifices may be necessary, 

 government by law must and will be sustained," said the president. 



It must be remembered that the Government makes no attack 

 on union labor as such. It is recognized that unionism has its 

 beneficent purposes and that it has accomplished alleviations in 

 the lives of those who work with their hands that no fairminded 

 humane government can begrudge. But the Government can not 

 tolerate the advancement of the workers' interests beyond, the 

 point where they begin to run contrary to the greatest good of the 

 greatest number and subvert the lawful and orderly processes of our 

 national life. America once fought a war to free itself from the 

 arrogance and tyranny of a King and it is not going to surrender 

 this hard won and glorious freedom to any group or combination of 

 groups as long as it has the vitality to do battle. 



The Nation Needs Men Like Kirby in the Senate 



THERE ARE FEW MEN in tlic lumber industry, if any, who do 

 not hope most earnestly that John H. Kirby will yield to the 

 urging of his Texas neighbors and run for the U. S. Senate. For 

 not only would Mr. Kirby 's election to the Senate most fittingly 

 crowni a notable business career and accord recognition to a really 

 distinguished personality; but it would distinctly strengthen the 

 personnel of the Upper House. The United States has never in its 

 history been more in need of such men as Mr. Kirby than it is today. 

 The original ideals and institutions of the Nation arc being slowly 

 — perhaps not slowlj' — crushed out under a ponderous weight of 

 decadent thought, exemplified in innumerable ways, including pater- 

 nalism, socialism, bureaucracy and radical labor unionism. The 

 whole moral, physical and intellectual tone of the Nation has, in 

 fact, deteriorated alarmingly during the past decade, and this 

 deterioration is gathering momentum every day. It is well in the 

 face of such conditions for the Nation to utilize to the fullest the 

 services of a man who perpetuates, as Mr. Kirby does, the best 

 Colonial American and Anglo-Saxon manhood and ideals. Those 

 who love the kind of Americanism that Washington stood for will 

 rejoice to see Mr. Kirby elevated to the Senate and the Senate 

 elevated bv Mr. Kirbv. 



Table of Contents 



REVIEW AND OUTLOOK: 



Generad Market Conditions 13-14 



A New Declaration of Independence 14 



The Nation Needs Men Like Kirby 14 



SPECIAL ARTICLES: 



The Layout of a Woodworking Plant from the Standpoint of Safety and 



Efficiency ... 15-18 



Clarifying the Lumber Statistics Question 19-20 



Selling Safety to Woodworkers 22 



The Mission of the Panel Plant 35 



Show Windowing Veneers " 



YARD AND KILN: 



Hardwood and Softwood Drying Schedules 26 



Miscellfuieous 26-27 



THE EXECUTIVES* ROUND TABLE: 



Letters on Dimension Question 28-30 



CLUBS AND ASSOCIATIONS: 



Miscellsmeous 32-34 



HARDWOOD NEWS NOTES 52-56 



HARDWOOD MARKET 56-58 



CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS 60-61 



HARDWOODS FOR SALE 62-64 



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