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Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



April 10, 1922 



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GENERAL OFFICES AND FACTORY 



Perkins Vegetable Glue 



The Standard of Quality and Economy 



Process and Product Patents covering Perkins Glue were granted July 2nd and March I9th, 1912, and 

 have been held valid and infringed by the United States Circuit Court of Appeals. Patents have also 

 been granted in Canada, Great Britain, Germany, France, Belgium, Italy and other foreigTi countries. 



Perkins Glue Company, Sales Office: South Bend, Indiana 



FACTORY AND GENERAL OFFICES: LANSDALE. PENNSYLVANIA 



Table Associations Are Merged 



The National Association of Table Manufacturers was organized 

 at a series of meetings of the leading table manufacturers of the 

 country in Indianapolis. Ind., March 21 to 23. This now makes a 

 strong association of upwards of 100 table manufacturers. 



The organijzation was effected through a merger of the Central 

 Bureau of Dining Table Manufacturers and the Association of 

 Living Room Table Manufacturers. It will include, also, manu- 

 facturers of library and kitchen tables. 



The officers of the new organization, elected at the final meet- 

 ing, are as follows: 



President Geo. B. Wilson, Kiel Furniture Co., Milwaukee, Wis. 



^jrst Vice-Pres. — H- B. Wilkinson, Spencer Table Co., Marion, 

 Ind. 



Second Vice-Pres. — F. E. Shearman, Jr., Maddox Table Co., 

 Jamestown, N. Y. 



Treasurer — E. Nonnast, L. F. Nonnast Sons. Chicago. 



M. Wulpi of Chicago, who has been commissioner of the Central 

 Bureau of Dining Table Manufacturers for a number of years, was 

 selected as commissioner of the merger. 



The merger of the two associations is the outcome of the strong 

 tendency during the last year or two of table manufacturers to 

 pull away from specialization and diversify their lines; that is, to 

 manufacture several kinds of tables, instead of, for example, dining, 

 library or living room tables exclusively, and even to get into the 

 manufacture of entire suites of living or dining room furniture. 

 Because of this movement the interests of the table manufacturers 

 have become more general and there is less reason for associations 

 representing groups devoted to the manufacture of some one kind 

 of table. 



In merging their associations the table makers desired also to 

 4'eap the benefits of a more inclusive pooling of their interests, and 



the rewards of the increased cohesion, which the merger will 

 permit. 



The tendency of table manufacturers to diversify their products 

 is attributed in large measure to the influence of the period of de- 

 pression, which has added to the difficulty of confining the output 

 of manufacturing establishments to narrow limits. 



Statistics on Diversified Output 



The following report made by Commissioner Wulpi on the results 

 of a canvass of the dining table manufacturers as to their products 

 of other lines, will illustrate the movement among table makers to 

 diversify their output: 



Out oi a total of 41 replies — *v 



5 manufacture only dining tables, or IOO?r. 



7 manufacture (with other lines) dining tables, from 10 to 75vr. 

 14 manufacture library and dining tables. 



8 manufacture suites, library and dining tables. 

 5 manufacture suites and dining tables. 



I manufacture only suites. 



I manufacture only library tables. 



34.19'^ manufacture dining and library tables. 



manufacture dining tables, library and suites. 



manufacture dining tables and other lines. 

 iZ.Z'^-'f manufacture dining tables and suites. 

 12.2'^'^ manufacture dining tables only. 



manufacture library tables only. 



manufacture suites only. 

 Of the 38 manufacturing dining tables they average 52 tables. 

 Of the 23 manufacturing also libraries they average 14.3 libra- 

 ries. 



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