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HARDWOOD RECORD 



April 10. 1921 



News from the National Capital 



General L. C. Boyle, attorney for the lumber interests in the 

 Government case against the Hardwood Manufacturers Association, 

 has announced that he will not file a supplemental brief with the 

 United States Supreme Court in the re-argument scheduled for 

 April 11. 



The Government has not yet definitely decided whether it will 

 file a supplemental brief. General Boyle, however, it is understood, 

 will ask the Court to be allowed to file a statement following his 

 pleading before the Coui't. While the case is officially set for 

 April 11, it is more than likely that the argument will not take 

 place before April 13, owing to the fact that there are several 

 important cases to be argued ahead of the lumber case. 



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The National Lumber Manufacturers Association has been 

 asked by the National Eetail Dealers Association to join in a 

 demand upon the Railroad Board that the business of the country 

 be given consideration in the present controversy over wages, 

 working laws and conditions in railroad employment. There are 

 approximately 35,000 retail lumber dealers in the United States 

 and a similar number of sawmill operators who ship over 3,000,000 

 cars annually. 



The National Retail Lumber Dealers Association urges that the 

 public be given a hearing, the national agreement abrogated, and 

 that the railroads be allowed to take the action they deem neces- 

 sary for the protection of the public interest and the revival of 

 prosperity for the transportation systems. 



The subcommittee of the Ways and Means Committee of the 

 House in charge of the lumber tariff schedule, has completed a 

 tentative draft of the lumber tariff for submission to the full com- 

 mittee. The schedule was drawn up without the knowledge of 

 anyone and no representatives of the lumber industry were 

 called in. 



Increased rates on lumber from points iu the South to Eastern 

 trunk line and New England territories were found not justified 

 by the Interstate Commerce Commission in an adoption on the 

 docket on water competitive rates. The proposed schedules pre- 

 %'iously were suspended by the Commission pending investigation 

 until April 27, but on March 23 the carriers were notified to cancel 

 the schedules on or before April 20. The Commission said, in its 

 decision, that it could not disregard the fact that a large propor- 

 tion of the lumber mills in the South are closed down. 



The Interstate Commerce Commission has further suspended 

 until April 21, the operation of certain schedules published in 

 tariffs of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company, the Louis- 

 ville and Nashville Railroad Company, the Pennsylvania, Sea- 

 board Airline and the Southern Railway Companies. 



The suspended schedules proposed the cancellation of an increase 

 iu water competitive rates on lumber and articles taking the same 

 rates, carloads, from various shipping points in the South to Balti- 

 more, Philadelphia, New York, Boston and points taking the same 

 rates, the operation of which was suspended until March 22 and 

 April 14, by orders previously entered. 



That the remedy for the scarcity of a million homes in the 

 United States lies in providing better transportation, abundance of 

 fuel, credit for loans and full information on the best methods of 

 construction, is contended by Senator William M. Calder, of New 

 York, chairman of the Senate Committee on Reconstruction, in a 

 report just made public. 



To accomplish the desired ends, Senator Calder has recommended 



to Congress legislative measures, among which is a bill to establish 



in the Department of Commerce a division for the gathering and 



ilissemination of information as to the best construction practices 



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