June 25. 1022 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Moore's Compartment Hardwood Kiln 



The well drained heating coils are equally dis- 

 tributed in entire open space below tracks and heat the 

 volume of air. The return bend pipe system uses all 

 the available energy in the steam and insures the equal 

 distribution of heat at the two ends, which is essential 

 in "compartment" kilns. 



Notice the automatic ventilator valves (on top) 

 spaced at regular intervals through the roof just over 

 the body of the lumber, allowing easy escape of 

 evaporated water. 



Moore Kilns turn out the highest quality of stock 

 uniformly dried to any specific moisture content. 



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 separating them in every case, it is recommended that the rules on Black 

 Gum be changed to read the same as the rules on Tupelo. 



Committee — Charles N. Perrin, Chairman; J. L. Benas. Jos. H. Dion. 

 E. B. Ford, Harry C. Fowler, M. J. Fox, C. H. Kramer, O. JI. Krebs, Frank 

 Purcell. W. T. Roberts, Daniel Wertz. T. T. Jones, John J, Miller, R. C. 

 Stimson, George MeSweyn, J. R. McQuillan, Fred Am, J. A. Lamb, W. L. 

 Saunders, J. C. Campbell. 



Gov. Allen Addresses Convention 



The chief speaker of the convention was the Hon. Henry J. Allen. 

 governor of Kansas, who stirred the members of the association 

 deeply with his story of the Kansas Industrial Relations Court, of 

 which he is the author. He spoke on the afternoon of June 22. 

 The governor told how this court has instituted in Kansas the rule 

 of "an honest day's work for an honest day's pay. ♦ » ♦ ■^'e 

 have declared in Kansas," he said, "the principle that the man 

 who has the desire to work shall have the right to work." 



A storm of applause broke out when a little while later Governor 

 Allen said that this Industrial Relations Court exemplifies that 

 "the right to work is just as sacred as the right to loaf; and that 

 it is the duty of government to protect both kinds of men in their 

 natural inclinations." 



Beginning with the miners' strike, which a few years ago caused 

 him to go to the Kansas legislature for the Industrial Relations 

 Court, Governor Allen told of many cases in which the court has 

 instituted justice in industrial disputes, protecting, in the mean- 

 time, the people of Kansas from the "economic pressure" which is 

 the chief weapon of employers in lockouts and employees in strikes. 

 In all, some 250 cases, big and little, have been adjudicated by the 

 court, since its establishment, with only four appeals from its 

 decisions, he said. He further declared that the law is working. 

 and that it is stronger in the hearts and judgments of the people 

 of Kansas than ever before, though it is being fought by radical 

 labor leaders, and employers disposed to be recalcitrant, with more 

 vigor than ever before. 



Governor Allen was followed by William A. Durgin of Washing- 

 ton, D. C, assistant secretary of the Department of Commerce, who 

 brought to the National Hardwood Lumber Association the same 

 message, "with no comma nor period omitted," which he delivered 



to the recent mass meeting in Louisville, Ky., at which the Hard- 

 wood Manufacturers' Institute was formed. Mr. Durgin appealed 

 for a "correlation of all lumber inspection" through the "sound 

 self-government" of the members of the lumber industry. He 

 interpreted the thought of Secretary Hoover as being for a national 

 inspection bureau for lumber, which should not supersede present 

 services, but "co-ordinate these services and gradually develop any 

 necessary modification of sectional practice required to give great- 

 est stability to the lumber business and greatest ability to the lum- 

 ber user. 



* * * "In such questions the Department of Commerce must 

 await the recommendation of the industry itself," Mr. Durgin con- 

 tinued. "If hardwood and softwood producers insist upon exist- 

 ence as separate industries, with all the weakening of self-govern- 

 ment, with all the misunderstandings and limitations which must 

 inevitably follow, the Department of Commerce must accept that 

 decision, much as we shall regret it. Our only function in lumber, 

 as in all industries, is to support the best thought of the allied 

 .groups, when those groups shall unite in unanimous action." 



But in the preamble of his address, Mr. Durgin voiced a threat 

 of government regulation, if the lumber industry by "self-govern- 

 ment" does not institute the reforms supposed by the Department 

 of Commerce to be needed. "The real question, we think, is whether 

 the lumber group can thus make effective the wisdom and vision 

 which some of its leaders possess in determining a farsighted policy 

 of high public service and of fundamentally sound practice, or 

 whether the lumber industry and other great industries will permit 

 the blindness of immediate self-interest and clique jealousies so to 

 dominate that the great consuming public must, in self-defense, 

 insist upon Federal regulation as the only possible corrective to 

 the inevitable iniquities of an utterly selfish program." 



Axel H. Oxholm, chief of the liunber division of the Department 

 of Commerce, followed Mr. Durgin with a description of the serv- 

 ices which his department are maintaining for the benefit of the 

 lumber industry. 



