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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Octolier 25, 1918 



of the motor transport corps. The orders placed call for: SOO SVa-ton 

 trucks. 202 2-ton trucks. 500 I'/o-ton trucks, GOO 5-ton chasses, 1020 

 3Vi-ton chas.sos, 6250 3-ton chasses, 2100 2-ton chasses, 5G5 li^-ton chasses 

 and 400 mlUtors. Twelve hundred 33 chasses have been ordered and also 

 24,950 Class B chasses, for which the government will furnish the 11 

 major units. 



Contracts have also been placed for 3riS4 10 ton trailers and 150 4-wheel 

 trailers. Orders for 13,500 4-wheel drives have been placed which are 

 handled as amendments to ordnance contracts. Other orders include SOOO 

 standard Ford 5-passenger cars. 1000 Dodge 5-passenger ears, 300 Dodge 

 winter cars, 558 limousines, 3000 delivery cars, 350 motorcycles and 

 15,050 bicycles. Deliveries on these orcjers are to begin immediately in 

 some instances and will extend over a period of several months. 



Housing Matters 



Bids were received on October 15. 1918, and contract for 37 buildings 

 for lOS families (housing only) at Staten Island, N. Y., was awarded to 

 Bing & Bing Construction Company, 119 West 40th St., New York City. 



Bids wore received ou October 14. 1918, and contract for 31 houses, 

 utilities and town planning at Portsmouth, N. II., was awarded to the 

 Murphy Construction Company. 7 Water St., Boston, Mass. 



Bids were received on October 10, 1918, and contract for a temporary 

 boiler house at Neville Island, I'a., was awarded to The Rodd Cipmpany, 



Century building, Pittsburgh, Pa. 



The housing bureau has also recently awarded contracts to A. F. 

 Wendling Company, Massillon, O., for 05 houses at Warren, O., and to 

 Edward .\. Wehr. Pittsburgh, Pa., for 54 buildings at Butler, Pa. 



Greater safety for munitions workers in their homes, through locating 

 their village settlements at points a safe distance from the plants In 

 which they are employed, is the policy involved in the contracts recently 

 let for 500 ready-cut bungalows, and 30 dormitories, to be used in housing 

 workers not now provided tor but to be used in the South Amboy section, 

 aboutwhich there are half a score plants on ordnance contracts. 



This plan is not the result of the recent explosion at the Morgan plant 

 of the T. A. Gillespie Company, but should have a tendency to check any 

 timidity over accepting munition plant work, because of the wide publicity 

 given the details of that accident. The idea of centralized villages for 

 workers within easy access and still at safe distance from the factories 

 had already been taken up with the U. S. Housing Corporation, which will 

 supervise the contract for the South Amboy workers' village. This village, 

 which will take care of about 4000 workers, is to be located at Ernston, 

 X. J. Workers are employed at six plants in the neighborhood. 



The same plan of safeguarding the w'orkers is to be employed by the 

 Ordnance Department at the Port Penn plant just south of Wilmington. 

 Here a village to accommodate 3000 workers will be erected three miles 

 from the plant. 



Proposed Association Merger 



Southern Hardwood Manufacturers at Last Get Together 



For some years there liave been several hardwood manufactur- 

 ers' associations operating in the Southland and none seemed to be 

 able to draw the full strength of tlie production into one associa- 

 tion. Several conferences have been held in the last two or three 

 years endeavoring to form what is known as a larger national or- 

 ganization to get together, if possible, every element of the hard- 

 wood business into one association. These efforts have perhaps 

 helped the cause by making friends out of manufacturers, whole- 

 salers and others who have affiliated with these various organiza- 

 tions, but in former conferences the split seemed to be generally on 

 the inspection problem, or some bunker that, while not important, 

 was used as a hazard in forming the larger association. 



The southern manufacturers in all branches have felt that there 

 was a need for closer co-operation. Illustrating that thought, at 

 one time there were several emergency bureas at Washington really 

 representing the same interests without any coalition or co-opera- 

 tion. Tliis made it difficult for lumber chiefs and the govern- 

 ment, and while some good came out of each effort, it would have 

 been very much easier for the government lumber purchasing de- 

 partments to have done business with one bureau representing all 

 tlie hardwood manufacturers of the United States. This up to the 

 present time seemed to be impossible because, as you know, the 

 National Hardwood Lumber Association is composed of two ele- 

 ments — manufacturers and wholesalers. But the present confer- 

 ence, which was between the two executive committees of the 

 Hardwood Manufacturers' Association and the newly formed 

 American Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, resulted after a 

 day's conference in the following resolutions: 



Due to war conditions and as a result of suggestions emanating from 

 Washington, it is deemed imperative that the manufacturers of hardwo<;id 

 lumber get together in one manufacturing organization. 



Growing out of the above thought, the executive committees of the 

 American Hardwood Manufacturers' Association and of the Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association of the U. S. A. met at Louisville, Ky.. this 

 October 19, 1918. The following recommendations and agreement was 

 entered into : * 



1. It is agreed that the hardwood industry would be better served if 

 there was but one association of hardwood manufacturers. 



2. To achieve this result it is recommended that the membership of 

 the American Hardwood Manufacturers' Association and the Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association of the U. S. A. unite, and it is agreed that 

 all members of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Association of the U. S. A. 

 should at once affiliate with the American Hardwood Manufacturers' 

 Association. 



(To this end the board of governors of the Hardwood Manufacturers' 

 Association will at once devise some proper method to present this recom- 

 mendation to the members of their association.) 



3. It Is understood that the American Hardwood Manufacturers' Asso- 



ciation will hold a special called meeting during December, 191S, at 

 Louisville. Ky.. and this because of the convenience of said point for the 

 enlarged membership growing out of this agreement. 



4. It is understood and agreed that until the special called meeting 

 above mentioned has been held the Hardwood Manufacturers' Asso- 

 ciation of the D. S. A. will continue to function as at present and this 

 to the end that it may dispose of and close up its business. 



5. It is agreed that the members of the Hardwood Manufacturers' 

 Association of the U. S. A. joining the American Hardwood Manufacturers' 

 Association as herein provided will not be required to pay any dues until 

 said special called meeting is held and dues to the American Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association shall be effected from January 1, 1919, for one 

 (1) year. 



G. The executive committee of the American Hardwood Manufacturers' 

 Association agree that at said special called meeting all questions of inspec- 

 tion rules and the application and administration thereof will be sub- 

 mitted to the enlarged association of manufacturers, and whatever action 

 majority of said meeting concludes, such action will control and deter- 

 mine the problem of grading rules and their application and administration. 

 7. The purpose of this agreement is to enable the manufacturers of 

 hardwood lumber to present a united front on all problems that are now 

 urgent in Washington as now relating to that industry and thereby seek 

 to avoid confusion and complications which have existed in the past. 

 Further, that we may hereby lay the foundation for constructive work 

 when business conditions become normal. 



S. This agreement is entered into with the solemn purpose of uniting 

 the manufacturing branch of the hardwood industry into one organization, 

 and this to the end that the important problems solely of interest to these 

 manufacturers may have uniformity of treatment. 

 Signed : 



E. O. Robinson, R. L. Jdrden, 



Leon Isaacsen, E. A. Lang, 



B. B. Burns, M. B. Coopek, 



J. W. Mayiiew, T. M. Bkown, 



W. E. DeLaney, J. W. McCi.t:itE. 



Tliere is no doubt that the recommendations made by these joint 

 committees will be accepted by the duly authorized membership of 

 these two associations. It means, however, an association which 

 can work out national problems like the present and proposed tax 

 laws, which do a great injustice to the lumber industry both ia 

 assessment for war purposes and the regular tax list without giving 

 the lumber manufacturer a fair representation in profits or credit 

 for the building of an investment in timber to which tlic govern- 

 ment price committees refuse to credit the real value. Notwith- 

 standing, they were supported not only on built-up values but 

 by actual lumber sales. 



There is legislation of all kinds coming up in the various sections 

 of the country which should be handled by a national organiza- 

 tion. Several local associations have been benefiting by the ex- 

 change of ideas ou cost, sales and valuation records, but it seemed 

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