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HARDWOOD RECORD 



April 



acres of waste lauds lu luOiaiiii whii.li inoilucc iioUiing hut poverty grass 

 and harnitul plants which should be reclaimed and made remunerative. 

 The bulletin also states that there are at least 1,000,000 acres of cheap 

 land planted to forests. Forests do much toward removing devastating 

 Udods and -protecting headwaters and tempering the climate. 



i\cw construction work in this city is at a standstill because of the 

 walkout of appro.ximately 6,000 members of the building trades here April 

 10. The entire difference is on the wage end of the contracts. The con- 

 tractors are d,emanding reductions from ten to twenty per cent and the 

 unions are demanding increases In every branch of the industry. Brick 

 masons and hod carriers have not quit because their contracts do not 

 expire until the first of May. Contractors here say they will never sign 

 unless the reduction is granted, and the labor leaders say they will consent 

 to nothing but an Increase, but in spite of this fact the general opinion 

 appears to be that the strike will be short lived. 



EVANSVILLE 



Building operations in Evansvillc are going right ahcail in spite of the 

 fact that the building trades unions have refused to accept a twenty per 

 cent reduction in wages, which the contractors announced on the first of 

 April. Contractors are "standing pat," and some of them have declared 

 for the open shop and are going right ahead with their plans of building. 

 Work was halted for a few days on the Victory Theater and the Hotel 

 McCurdy at the corner of Main and Sixth streets, the largest piece of 

 construction work that is now going on in Evansville, and the contractors 

 ■who have this job announced the open shop policy and asked all former 

 employes to return to work at a reduction in wages. 



Charles A. Wolflin, head of the Wolflin West Side Lumber Company, has 

 returned from a business trip to Chicago. 



John Edward Moerner, 66 years old, who for many years operated a 

 sawmill and bent wood plant at Shelbyville, Ind., died at his home in that 

 city on Friday, April 15, after a short illness. He was well known to the 

 lumber trade in central and southern Indiana and is survived by his wife 

 and one son. 



The next regular monthly meeting of the Evansville Lumbermen's Club 

 will be held on Tuesday evening, May 10, at the New Vendome Hotel, and 

 a good attendance is looked for by J. C. Greer, the president. It is 

 expected that the date of the summer outing of the club will be definitely 

 fixed at this time. The date will be either Tuesday, June 14, or Tuesday, 

 June 21, and the place of the outing has been decided as Exposition Park, 

 formerly Cook's Park In this city. The outing is being arranged by the 

 entertainment committee of the club, which is composed of Gus A. Bauman 

 of the Maley & Wertz Lumber Company, Joe Waltman of the Evansville 

 Band Mill Company and Claude Wertz of the Maley & Wertz Lumber 

 Company. 



Victor F. Sturm has been appointed general manager of the Jasper 

 Novelty Works at Jasper, Ind., to take the place of his father, Joseph M. 

 Sturm, who has held the position since the company was organized a good 

 many years ago. The new manager tor fifteen years was bookkeeper and 

 assistant manager of the company. The company operates one of the 

 largest woodworking plants in Jasper. 



E. R. Kuhn, paying teller at the Mercantile-Commercial bank here, will 

 leave in a few days tor Brattleboro, Vt., to accept a position with the 

 R. W. Denton Lumber Company, a new concern which has acquired a 

 large tract of timberland in the New England states. Mr. Kuhn is a 

 graduate of the state forestry school at Syracuse, N. Y. He will begin 

 his new duties as assistant foreman of the company. 



Daniel Wertz of the Maley & Wertz Lumber Company and Oscar A. 

 Klamer. head of four furniture manufacturing companies here, have 

 returned from French Lick, Ind., where they spent several days. 



The Kendallvlile Lumber Company at Kendallville. Ind., has been organ- 

 ized by capitalists from Sturgls, Mich., and has purchased a site and will 

 erect a modern lumber yard this summer. 



William H. McCurdy, president of the Hercules Buggy Company of this 

 city, says that trade conditions are growing better, and in his opinion the 

 worst of the depression has been passed and that things will get better 

 gradually from this time on. Most of the plants of the Hercules Com- 

 pany are still being operated on part time. 



CLEVELAND 



Hardwood interests along with every other branch of the building 

 material industry here will have an important part in the building ex- 

 position which will mark the opening of the public hall next fall. This 

 wag decided this week at a meeting of building industry and civic asso- 



ciations at the Builders Exchange. A company will be incorporated, not 

 for profit, which will direct the exposition. If there are any profits 

 they will lie turned back to the exhibitors. The show, which will exceed 

 In magnitude and scope that of 1916 held here, will be operated primarily 

 to interest the people in building their houses and owning their homes. 



Hardwood distributors are preparing for whatever development comes 

 with the arrival of May 1, when, from present Indications, a general 

 strike of building trades operatives will follow the decision this week 

 of the Building Trades Employers Association to cut wages an average 

 of 20 per cent. This decision follows the action of the Carpenter Con- 

 tractors Association In reducing carpenters wages from $1.25 to 90 

 cents, when the latter abrogated their agreement in permitting a strike 

 of carpenters on a theatre job, in itself a jurisdictional dispute. 



Hardwood and other lumber interests are expected to join the local 

 association of the American Plan Association, national body favoring 

 the open shop. They would join as Individuals rather than as a group, 

 because most members of this branch of the building material industry 

 here already are members of the Material Dealers .Association, organized 

 several years ago to promote the open shop principle, and of course do 

 not care to pay into two associations serving the same end. 



MEMPHIS 



James E. Stark & Company, Inc., who started up their band mill at 

 Dyersburg, Tenn., some days ago, have this week placed their Memphis 

 mill and veneer plant in operation. This firm has approximately 5,000,000 

 feet of logs to be converted into lumber, partly timber brought out some 

 time ago and partly timber that must be removed during the current year. 

 It announces, however, that conversion of these logs into lumber will mark 

 the limit of Its operations during 1921. 



The .Vllen-Eaton Panel Company has resumed operations for the second 

 time within the past six or seven months. It is engaged In the manu- 

 facture of panel stock and built up veneers. 



The Green River Lumber Company and the McLean Hardwood Lumber 

 Company have not only closed down their band mills in Memphis, but they 

 have also nailed them up, thus indicating that they have suspended opera- 

 tions for an indefinite period. 



Russe & Burgess, Inc., will complete cutting their log holdings within 

 the next week or ten days, and they announce that they will tuen suspend 

 operations indefinitely. This firm, according to G. A. Farber, is not mak- 

 ing the slightest preparations for getting out fresh timber. 



May Brothers, it Is understood, will complete sawing of logs on hand 

 within the next thirty days and then they will join the ranks of idle 

 manufacturers. 



The Memphis Band Mill Company is another firm which will suspenil 

 in the near future. It has been forced to operate during the past few 

 months because of timber contracts. 



The Carrier Lumber & Manufacturing Company, Sardis, Miss., has only 

 about 1,000,000 feet of logs to convert Into lumber, according to M. B. 

 Cooper, assistant to the president, R. M. Carrier. This firm has been put 

 temporarily out of commission by high water in nearby streams and. 

 although it will resume as soon as possible, it has reached no decision 

 regarding its plans after present log supply has been cared for. 



Max Miller, Mariana, .\rk., who was in Memphis this week, says that 

 his firm is operating at capacity, but that this is the result of a decision 

 made last .August and not of present conditions in the hardwood market. 



C. A. Price, manager of the Memphis plant of the American Car & 

 Foundry Company, announces that this will be closed down in the next 

 three or four weeks, throwing about 700 men out of employment. He 

 attributes this to lack of orders from the railroads for repair and construc- 

 tion work. He believes that there will be a change in the atttitude of the 

 railroads, however, and predicts resumption of operation in the late sum- 

 mer or early fall. 



W. H. Russe of Russe & Burgess. Inc., will sail from Liverpool within 

 the next few days for home. He will arrive in Memphis around May 1. 

 He has been abroad for some time investigating lumber conilitions at first 

 hand. There is nothing to indicate that he has turned up any considerable 

 quantity of business, but his position Is somewhat like that of the man 

 who returned from a market In which he had offered his produce who 

 said : "I didn't get what I expected, but then I didn't expect to." 



LOUISVILLE 



There has been little discussed in the local hardwood circles the past 

 few days other than the granting of the milling in transit privilege to 

 Louisville, and what It will mean to Louisville as a lumber market. It 

 is believed that with this arrangement Louisville will stage a big come 

 back, and get back Into the list of the largest markets, such as she was 

 a few years ago, before discrimination in the milling in transit matters 

 caused the jobbing end to wane. 



The Louisville Point Lumber Co., has recently filed suit for $7,108.16 

 against J. F. Thompson, E. W. Parks and Henry N. Hedden, doing business 

 as Thomnson & Parks, Trimble. Tenn., alleging overcharges beyond market 

 prices on logs purchased in 1920, the petition stating that the company 

 employed Hedden to buy logs for it, and that the defendant purchased 



