THE LUMBER INDUSTRY. 



The National Lumber Manufacturers' 

 Association. 



The ninth annual convention of the 

 National Lumber Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion was held on the 24th and the 25th 

 of May, 1911, in Chicago, with President 

 Hines in the chair Addresses were made 

 hy lumbermen and one by a forester. The 

 elections resulted in Major E. G. Griggs, 

 of Tacoma, Washington, as president, and 

 upon authority of the resolution of the 

 Association, he has moved the manager's 

 office to Tacoma, Washington. The secre- 

 tary's office remains as before in St. Louis. 

 The following officers were elected: Presi- 

 dent, E. G. Griggs, Tacoma, Wash.; vice- 

 presidents, R. H. Vansant, Ashland, Ky. ; 

 J. D. Conrad, Glenwood, Fla. ; R. H. Down- 

 man, New Orleans, La.; treasurer, J. A. 

 Freeman, St. Louis, Mo.; secretary, Geo. K. 

 Smith, St. Louis, Mo.; manager, Leonard 

 Bronson, Chicago, 111. 



Resolutions were adopted opposing fur- 

 ther reduction of Schedule D (lumber) of 

 the present tariff law; endorsing "Aldrich 

 measure" for national monetary commis- 

 sion; urging adoption and passage of either 

 the Mann bill or the Fordney bill for a mer- 

 chant marine made necessary by the open- 

 ing of the Panama Canal; and supporting 

 federal investigation of the fire waste (Joint 

 Resolution H. J. 97), introduced by Con- 

 gressman Jackson, of Kansas. 



An address was made by R. A. Long, an 

 ox-president of the association, and by the 

 )-etiring president, Edward Hines. Also a 

 report by Leonard Bronson, manager. 

 There followed an address, informal and 

 fragmentary in its nature, by J. A. Free- 

 man, on "European Forestry"; by James 

 A. Emery on "Working Men's Compensa- 

 tion"; by W. B. Townsend, on "The 

 Hardwood Situation"; and also (upon 

 the request of President Hines), "Practical 

 Forestry as it Relates to Hardwood"; Har- 

 rington Emerson, on "Principles of Effici- 

 vncy as Applied to the Lumber Industry"; 

 J. H. Bloedell, on "The Panama Canal Its 

 Relation to the Lumber Industry of the 

 Pacific Coast"; Robert Fullerton, "Popular 

 Ignorance of the Lumber Industry"; W. E. 

 Gilchrist, "Advertising Lumber vs. Its 

 Substitutes"; A. T. Garrins on "Advertis- 

 ing." There was one address by a forester, 

 Dr. C. A. Schenck, on "Practical Forestry." 

 H. S. Graves, United States Forester, was 

 to have spoken, but was not able to attend 

 the meeting. 



The Yellow Pine Manufacturers' 

 Association. 



Immediately preceding the National 

 Lumber Manufacturers' Association meet- 

 ing in Chicago, the Yellow Pine Manufac- 

 turers held their meeting in the same city 

 the 23rd of May. President Thompson in 

 his address referred to recent history, to 

 the suits brought before a special federal 

 grand jury and Judge K. M. Landis by 

 the Department of Justice for the purpose 

 of investigating the lumber business in 

 the west in the light of the Sherman anti- 

 trust law; to the testimony taken by Com- 

 missioner Robert M. Reynolds, representing 

 the state supreme court of Missouri in 

 the ouster proceedings brought by the at- 

 torney general of Missouri against fortj^- 

 three yellow pine lumbermen; and to the 

 articles upon the "lumber trust" appearing 

 in various magazines and newspapers. 



R. A. Long spoke on "An Advertising 

 Campaign for Wooden Paving Blocks" and 

 Charles Keith on "The Labor Situation in 

 the South." It was Mr. Keith's speech in 

 behalf of reciprocity and especially for free 

 lumber that raised a storm of protest from 

 the association. Mr. Keith maintained that 

 the $1.35 duty on lumber did not protect, 

 for this duty and the fight necessary to 

 maintain it had intensified the belief in the 

 minds of the public that there was a "lum- 

 ber trust." He favored a resolution to be 

 sent to Congress that would show that the 

 Association was not fighting for the tariff 

 on lumber. In this he was supported by 

 C. M. McDoris. 



W. B. Stillwell strenuously opposed the 

 idea of such a resolution, for, he main- 

 tained, such action on the part of the 

 I'ellow Pine Manufacturers' Association 

 would acknowledge that lumbermen had 

 been wrong in the past. For the agitation 

 for reciprocity Mr. Stillwell blamed certain 

 powerful organizations that wanted free 

 vood-pulp. Others discussed the question, 

 lut it was dismissed without action. 



American Lumber Trades Congress. 



The third meeting of the congress was 

 held in St. Louis on the 23rd of May. 

 The object for which the congress meets 

 is to put before lumbermen a code of trade 

 ethics for the manufacturer, the whole- 

 saler, the retailer and the consumer, to 

 provide for the settlement of disagree- 

 ments not covered in a purchase contract. 



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