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Southern Rotary Operators Mobilize for War Work 



Manufacturers Urged to Attend Meetings and Take Part in Work 



I HI-: WAR SERVICE ASSOCIATION of Rotary 

 Cut Lumber Manufacturers was formally organ- 

 ized at Memphis, October 4, by fifty-five rotary 

 cut lumber manufacturers during a meeting called 

 by W. B. Morgan, Morgan Veneer Company, Pine Bluff, 

 Ark., acting at the request of R. E. Parsonage, chief of 

 the Vehicle, Implement and Wood Products Section of 

 the War Industries Board. 



This organization has been formed for the specific 

 purpose of mobilizing the rotary cut lumber industry for 

 producing all materials necessary to successful prosecu- 

 tion of the war. It has an executive committee, of which 

 W. Brown Morgan is chairman, and of which John M. 

 Pritchard is secretary. The other members are: G. O. 

 Worland, Evansville, Ind. ; B. C. Jarrell, B. C. Jarrell & 

 Co., Humboldt, Tenn.; R. L. Jurden, Penrod, Jurden & 

 McCowen, Inc., Memphis and Helena, Ark., and W. T. 

 Neal, T. R. Miller Mill Company, Brewton, Ala. 



This committee will go to Washington to confer with 

 the War Industries Board from time to time and will 

 represent rotary cut lumber interests in its dealing with 

 that body. It will also take such other action as is neces- 

 sary to so co-ordinate activities of these interests as to 

 bring about maximum aid to the government. 



Resolutions were adopted at the meeting of the execu- 

 tive committee advising the War Industries Board that 

 the organization had been formed and that it stood ready 

 to pledge the resources of all members of the association 

 in taking care of the requirements of the government. 



Three branches of the rotary cut lumber trade are rep- 

 resented in the association, the box, the fruit package and 

 the commercial rotary. 



I he association will take advantage of the facilities of 

 the veneer department of the American Hardwood Manu- 

 facturers' Association and will operate through it. It will 

 not interfere in any way with any existing organization nor 

 will it supersede any of these bodies. It is a war organi- 

 zation, pure and simple, and as such will cease to exist 

 when the war is over. 



Mr. Pritchard, secretary-treasurer, is anxious to send 

 a report of the meeting to every member of the rotary cut 

 lumber trade in the territory south of the Ohio river and 

 therefore requests that those who do not receive a report 

 in the immediate future write to him at Memphis so that 

 copies may be forwarded. 



Mr. Morgan, in stating the purpose of the meeting, 

 explained that invitations had been mailed to all whose 

 addresses were in hand and that, if any manufacturer 

 failed to receive one, it was due entirely to lack of 

 definite information as to his address. 



He further stated that, in accordance with informa- 

 tion at hand, there would be a shortage of 30,000,000 

 feet of rotary cut box material within the next six months 

 and that, because of this fact, the Vehicle, Implement 

 and Wood Products Section of the War Industries Board 

 had requested mobilization of the industry by forming 

 an organization that could deal with that body and that 

 would, at the same time, represent rotary cut lumber 

 interests. 



Mr. Morgan further stated that, if approximately 100 

 per cent of rotary cut lumber interests did not volun- 

 tarily attend meetings having such mobilization as their 

 purpose, there would be other meetings later at which 

 their presence would be demanded by the authorities at 



M. rKITCII.XKI 

 KETARY EXI- 



O. WORLAXU. EVAXSVILLE, IXD.. MEM- 

 UEU EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 



