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been formed among the manufacturers of Douglas fir, cypress, and 

 hemlock. The Western Pine Manufacturers' Association has also 

 employed cooperative methods in selling. 



THE NATIONAL LUMBER MANUFACTURERS' ASSOCIATION 



Cooperation among lumbermen on something approximating a 

 national scale began as early as 1897. In that year, a meeting was 

 held in Cincinnati at which representative lumbermen from various 

 parts of the country met to devise ways and means to secure the 

 restoration of the tariff on lumber, the white pine manufacturers 

 being especially prominent in the movement. The National Lumber 

 Manufacturers' Association was organized in St. Louis in December, 

 1902, the outgrowth of a friendly intercourse that had existed for 

 several years among a large number of local associations. The white 

 pine manufacturers and the yellow pine manufacturers were leaders 

 in this movement, but the organization now includes some of the 

 strongest associations in the country. 



SCOPE AND INFLUENCE OF ORGANIZATIONS 



The Yellow Pine Manufacturers' Association included some 300 

 members controlling perhaps one third of the yellow pine output of 

 the United States. It was connected to some extent with several other 

 associations in the South. By means of a number of common directors, 

 it was connected with the Southern Lumber Operators' Association — 

 a Louisiana association organized in 1906, ostensibly to fight labor 

 unions — and in various ways was related to the Southwestern Lum- 

 bermen's Association, and with the Lumber Secretary's Bureau of 

 Information, and with the National Lumber Manufacturers' Asso- 

 ciation. After the Missouri ouster suit in 1913,^ this association was 

 reorganized as the Southern Pine Association, with a total of over 

 150 subscribers and a combined output of about 6,000,000,000 feet — 

 half of the yellow pine production in the Gulf states. The Georgia- 

 Florida Saw Mill Association, the other yellow pine association, is 

 much smaller, but includes seventy-six members, representing 50 per 



2 The suit brought by the state of Missouri against a number of lumber com- 

 panies for violation of the state anti-trust laws. The suit resulted in the conviction 

 of twenty-five lumber companies, and the imposition of heavy fines, while some of 

 the companies were ousted from the state. (169 Southwestern Reporter, 145.) 



