HARDWOOD RECORD 



including officers of the following departments : The public printer, the 

 postofflce department, the bureau of engraving and printing, the Marine 

 Corps, the war department, army and navy department yards and naval 

 stations, shipments for the American Red Cross, the imperial munitions 

 board of Canada, the United States housing corporations and the Panama 

 canal. 



"B," to the U. S. Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, followed 

 by the word.^ '■(mi- a(<..uiit of," and then followed by name and location 

 of particular n.n, , rn p. ri.nming the work. 



"C." dirrrt lu r:ir .ml locomotive manufacturers. 



"D," railinaii iii.itriiiii (..iisigned to an officer of a railroad and destined 

 to a point mi such niilina.l. 



The government of commercial shipments of forest products to embar- 

 goed destinations will be controlled through the issuance of permits by the 

 car service section or by the freight traffic committee having jurisdiction 

 when operating conditions warrant and upon presentation by consignees 

 of evidence which justifies transportation service. No permits will be 

 issued except from the point at which the shipment actually originated 

 and to its final destination. The reconsignment of shipments moving 

 under such permits is prohibited ; shipments in transit will be accepted : 



Railways — Operated Ijy United States Railroad Administration I 



Railways — Not operated by United States Railroad Administration 



(excluding those operated as plant facilities) II 



Ships — Plants engaged principally in building ships, excluding (a) 

 pleasure craft not common carriers, (b) ships not built for the United 

 States government or the Allies, nor under license from United States 



Shipping Board I 



Textiles — Plants engaged principally in manufacturing textile ma- 



cbiTi.iy IV 



ToiiA niy ini- preserving, drying, curing, packing and storing 



-ail i III li manufacturing and marketing IV 



Ti"ii - I'iiiii- I iii;aged principally in manufacturing small or hand 



t '' " 11,1 III- wood or metal Ill 



Wai: i. \ , I II iAi;r,MENT.s — Construction work conducted by either 

 1 1 " : li i .1 III III! I I tlie Navy Department of the United States 

 ii I irNors, fortified places, flood protection opera- 



!!■ iinals, inland waterways and in the main- 



tiii.ii.' ■ ii|i. Ill'' II 



^'iii. ilji iMin ' ijiinLipally" means 75 per cent of the products men- 



The same organization has issued the attached statement regard- 

 ing the classification of industries in making up the preferential list 

 issued by the War Industries Board: 



For the information of members, industries placed on the preference 

 list are separated into four classes. Class I contains those which are of 

 exceptional importance and the requirements of which are to be fully 

 satisfied before the requirements of the industries in the other classes. 

 The other classes are used to show relative importance, but the require- 

 ments of Industries in Class II, for example, will not have to be fully 

 satisfied before supplies are allowed to industries In Class IV. 



As previously advised, under the ruling of the War Industries Board, 

 it is necessary to get the preference of shipments from the interested indus- 

 tries before lumbermen can make the shipments. 



.iiRCRAPT — Plants engaged principallv in 



aircraft supplies and laiuipnicut . . . .' 



Army a\d Navy--.\ i -. h:i i . ami Na', "i ml 



manufacturing aircraft or 



illy in manufacturing agri- 



• lulpment IV 



lly in manufacturing same. .IV 



ufacturing mining tools or 



Ill 



a manufacturing equipment 

 i oil or natural gas, or for 



for mechanical purposes. . .Ill 



Till: ^uiuiicru liarduwud'Tiallic Assuciatiuu has 'rJcciVed 'a 'par- 

 tial modification of the embargo order as follows: 



Permits are not required on shipments originating at point on one road 

 destined to a point on the same road. To illustrate : Permit will not be 

 necessary on shipments from Yazoo City, Miss., via Illinois Central to 

 Indianapolis, Ind., for Illinois Central Delivery ; nor from Memphis, Tenn., 

 to Chicago, III., Illinois Central Delivery ; nor from Arkansas City, Ark., 

 via the Missouri Pacific, to Thebes, 111., for Missouri Pacific Delivery ; nor 

 from a point on the Louisville & Nashville Railroad to Cincinnati, Ohio, 

 for Louisville & Nashville Railroad Delivery. 



The association has issued a circular of information covering the 

 latest conclusions of the embargo situation. 



Embargo to Central Freight Association and Eastern territories, will, 

 in our opinion, be effective for the duration of the war. 



In our opinion, the embargo will be further modified so as to include 

 originating points on roads connecting with trunk lines reaching Central 

 Freight Association Territory, or the rule allowing shipments to move 

 from a point on one road to a destination on the same road, will be abro- 

 gated. Advice received from the Car Service Section would indicate that 

 permits will be issued on practically all orders booked. 



The above report of the Memphis meeting is reproduced in full 

 because it is representative of urgent gatherings of lumbermen in 

 all parts of the country. Action taken at the Memphis meeting 

 was more full and more drastic than at any other center, but the 

 purpose and sentiment behind all of the other gatherings was 

 the same. It is stated in regard to the Louisville situation that as 

 late as September 18 the embargo had not been placed in effect 

 by a number of the carriers at Louisville and the Ohio Biver 

 crossings in spite of the fact that it was to become effective Sep- 

 tember 16. 



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Stirring Meeting of Loggers W 



Members of the Xortheru Logging Congress met in a stirring 

 session at the Hotel Pfister, Milwaukee, Wis., on Thursday, Sep- 

 tember 19. This was the annual meeting and was attended not 

 only by the logging superintendents but by a large number of the 

 principals of various operations. In fact it more nearly resembled 

 a meeting of manufacturers than of the loggers. 



The very important bearing of war requirements on northern 

 logging conditions and discussion of labor problems were the topics 

 of greatest concern which occupied a good part of the sessions. 

 The sixty or seventy men present stayed through the sessions 

 which were interesting in the extreme. 



E. C. Dawley of the Dawley Lumber Company, Wausau, Wis., 

 now serving with the lumber section at Washington, represented 

 the government in an effort to round up the absolute maximum 

 number of birch veneer logs from the coming winter's cut as a 

 tremendous amount of birch veneer will be required by the allied 

 governments for airplane construction. 



Mr. Dawley discussed the matter pretty thoroughly with loggers 

 and lumbermen present, particularly as regards the percentage of 

 birch logs to be gotten out of operations, and the question of 

 whether or not it is physically possible to concentrate on this work 

 to the exclusion of other logging. The lumbermen carried with 

 them the impression that the government will give assistance in 

 logging other species of timber and other grades of birch logs 

 where it is essential that these other materials be taken out in 

 connection with the production of the required government stock. 



Mr. Dawley said there had been a question at Washington as to 

 whether or not the matter should be taken up with the northern 

 lumbermen now or postponed until January or February, and the 

 unanimous verdict ' was that the quantity of material produced 

 would be very seriously lessened were the matter postponed at all. 

 It was urged that the government give instructions at the earliest 

 jiossible moment so that plans for laying tracks and other pro- 

 visions for logging and shaping policies to meet the situation may 

 be properly handled. 



There was some doubt expressed as to the ability of northern 

 loggers to handle present and future orders for gunstock planks 

 requiring very special material as well as the coming orders for 

 veneer logs. It was suggested by W. B. Clubine of the Park Falls 

 Lumber Company that the two orders could "be handled without 

 interference as many logs of a suitable character to produce the 

 gunstock planks would not fit the requirements peculiar to veneer 

 manufacture. This suggestion met with support by many of those 

 present. 



It is purposed that the loggers and lumbermen merely get the 

 logs out from the woods and supply them to the veneer mills of 

 the North, who will be working almost exclusively on the govern- 

 ment work. 



The following resolutions were adopted regarding this proposi- 

 tion: 



Itcsolved, That the executive officers of the Northern Logging Congress 

 give assurance to the War Industries Board that the loggers of Wisconsin 



