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comparable to that now existing in this country, but as yet Httle 

 has been done to remedy it. Lumbermen in the United States hoped 

 for the passage of the Webb bill, which was before the last Congress. 

 This would have removed certain restrictions now existing which 

 relate to foreign sales corporations, and would have freed the lumber- 

 men exporters of other goods from possible prosecution as "operating 

 in restraint of trade." The trade-marking of lumber has been prac- 

 ticed in Finland for some years, and special markets have been created 

 for special brands. The policy of the new sales organization will be to 

 continue to sell the product of each mill under its own trademark. It 

 is reported that large stocks of lumber are being accumulated in Fin- 

 land for post-bellum export, the new selling organization being suffi- 

 ciently strong financially to hold stocks until a favorable market is 

 secured. This will tend to stabilize the market and prevent sudden 

 fluctuations in price. At the present time 70 per cent of the value of 

 Finnish exports are represented by forest products. 



American Lumberman, March 17, 1971, p. 28. 



A rather novel method of labor payment on 

 Wages a logging operation is reported from the camps 



in of the Inman-Ponken Logging Company, near 



Logging Kelso, Washington. This company no longer 



pays straight daily wages to the yarding or load- 

 ing crews, but has adopted a system of payment on the thousand-foot 

 output basis. The schedule of prices paid to the crew members per M 

 feet is as follows : Yarding crew — One hook-tender, 9 cents ; one second 

 rigging man, 6 ; one signal boy, 4 ; 1 road engineer, 65^ ; one head rig- 

 ging man, 6^; one chaser (yarder), 6; one chaser (roader), 6; two 

 swampers, 4^^, and one yarding engineer, 7 cents. Loading crew — 

 One engineer, 7 cents; one head loader, 7, and one second loader, 6 

 cents. 



Where oil is used as fuel, a fireman is not furnished. The engineer 

 must get up steam in the morning and make running repairs on his 

 engine. Where a fireman is furnished, a reduction of one-half of 1 

 per cent per thousand is made in the pay of engineers. All rollways 

 are built at the expense of the company; all donkey engines are set, 

 ready to put out lines; high leads are put up, and swing and road 

 engines set before the yarding and loading crews begin. Yarding 



