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be of assistance the Department of Labor or the Federal Trade Com- 

 mission, not the Forest Service, would aid in reaching satisfactory 

 adjustments. Wherever possible it is most desirable that the industry 

 itself develop the capacity for self-government and only call in an 

 umpire in case they cannot agree. 



More human relations between capital and labor will not be brought 

 about all at once through the application of any one plan to all indus- 

 tries. They will be of slow growth, attained in different ways by dif- 

 ferent industries. The Committee simply provides for the creation of 

 agencies through which the lumber industry may start to adjust its in- 

 dustrial disputes in a democratic way, casting aside its archaic methods 

 of industrial autocracy, which, as time goes on, will prove increasingly 

 ineffective and dangerous. The plan is similar to that more recently 

 suggested by the President's Second Industrial Conference for the 

 establishment of regional and national industrial boards, and if that 

 plan should become effective the lumber industry would, of course, 

 function under it. 



What has all this to do with the prevention of forest devastation? 

 Simply this : The practice of forestry on privately owned timberlands 

 would be extremely difficult, if not hopeless, apart from the practice of 

 such industrial democracy as is necessary to secure and hold intelligent, 

 contented labor. 



BUSINESS REPORTS 



Periodical reports on production, orders, shipments, sales, distribu- 

 tion and stocks on hand might be made either to the Federal Trade 

 Commission or to the Forest Service. The cry that the preparation of 

 such reports would throw a huge burden upon the individual plants of 

 the industry is wholly unjustified, for the various mills of the principal 

 lumber associations already make such reports to their own associa- 

 tions. The submission of this information to the Government would 

 insure accuracy of statement, a thing much to be desired. The Gov- 

 ernment would also receive reports from mills outside of the lumber 

 associations, thus making the statistical information fairly complete. 

 If reports should be made to the Forest Service, that organization 

 would, perhaps, be in a position to issue monthly reports for the country 

 as a whole, as is done in case of agricultural products by the Bureau of 

 Markets, thus keeping up to date on the situation. Reports of this 



