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General \(/ainwright To Address Joirit Meeting March 23

A dinner meeting sponsored jointly by the San Francisco Lumbermen's Club, Hoo-tToo Club No. 39, the Peninsula Lumbermen's Club, and the Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California, will be held in the Florentine Room, Claremont Hotel, Berkeley, (note the change of meeting place), on Tuesday evening March 23.

The speaker of the evening will be General Jonathan M. Wainwright, United States Army retired, who will address members and their ladies on the sujbect of his war experiences.

ft is interesting to note that General Wainwright is vice president in charge of public relations for the Acme Sash Balance Company, Los Angeles.

Stanton Labor Cost Savings Plan Pays Ott

"It is our desire to build an aggressive organization of energetic men who are willing to work, and make this plan work, by actual application to the job of handling lumber," declared LeRoy H. Stanton, President, E. J. Stanton & Son, Inc., Los Angeles, as he presented each union employee in the company with an extra wage check Monday, February 16, 1948.

The purpose of this plan is to divide frfty (50%) per cent of all labor savings antong the union employees in the organization where the basic union labor cost is less than 9.3/o ol net yard sales for any quarterly period. For the period ended December 31,1947, the men of the plant did the job Tor a cost of approximately B/o of yard sales.

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"We hope we will be able to make substantial payments to each of you at the close of every three-month period," Stanton continued as the checks for this substantial savings were passed out to the men. "T ris is an incentive plan that really pays off," declared the employees.

Appointed Genercrl Mcrncger

Appointment of Kenneth Syverson as general manager of Western Lumber Exchange, Seattle, Wash., has been announced by W. F. Bush, president. Syverson, national known skier, is founder and head of the famous Pacific Northwest Ski schools which bear his name. Mr. Bush said that Mr. Syverson will serve in a liaison capacity between members of the Exchange and the mills they represent.

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