GCDSSLIN-I{ARD|NG LUlf, BER CO. Whofesale Wesf CoasI Forest Producls

Manufacturing Company-'(Water Repellent and Wood Preservative Treatments"; and Gerald Misner, Albi Manufacturing Company-"Fire Retardant Coatings."

Others are: George Glore, Durand Door Supply-"Fire Doors and Fire Codes"; J. A. Brush, Brush Industrial Lumber Company-"Hardwoods-IJses and Availability" ; and Dick Anderson, DFPA-"Douglas Fir Plywood-New Specifications and Finishing Techniques."

Bob Leishman of Crown City Lumber and Mill Company will moderate the evening "Millwork Seminar." Panel members include Eugene Wieczorek, Harold Keller, R. Redmond Coghlan, H. A. Pulaski, Byron Taylor and O'Niel E. Long.

Filon Plostics Appoints Eight New Distributors, One Jobber

Appointment of eight new distributors and one jobber by Filon Plastics Corporation, Hawthorne, Calif., leading manufacturer of fiberglass reinforced plastic panels, was announced April5byA.M. Barr Sr., national sales manager.

The distributors are: Belsinger Paint, Inc., Baltimore, Md.; Central States Steel, Kansas City, Mo.; Fiberglas Engineering & Supply, Spokane, Wash., Boise, Idaho, Los Angeles and San Diego, Calif., Phoenix, Ariz., Seattle, Wash., and Portland, Ore.; Georgia-Pacific Corporation, Washington, D.C.; Lumbermen's Service, La Crosse, Wisc.; Martin Inc., Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Northern Wholesale, Eureka, Calif.; and P.B.M., Inc., Santa Rosa, Calif.

The jobber is Builders Specialty Company, Pawtucket, R.I.

Each firm will stock and distribute Filon's complete line of panels for use in residential, commercial, and industrial construction.

Speciolty

Engineered Wood Products

Lumber and Mill Employers Association Formed

The Lumber and Mill Employers Association, a new non-profit corporation, was formed Thursday, March 30, for the purpose of continuing the stable collective bargaining relationships that have existed for many years through ,the representation of employers by Mr.D.N. (Nat) Edwards, who recently passed away.

These relationships involve some lforty collective bargaining agreements with sixteen different local unions signatory to agreements with lumber yards, planing mills, cabinet shops, sash and door, furniture, pallet and plywood operations and other prefabrication and distribution of wood products and building materials.

Membership Represents Bay Areas Counties

The principal membership of the Association comes from distributors in the six Bay Area counties and includes about 400 companies. All companies in these industries are welcome to become associated with this employer group.

This Association will be the collective bargaining agent for its members and wilf continue to promote peaceful

WIIUIAM CHATHAM, JR.

Newly elected Prosidenl settlement of all grievances and putes.

At thefirst membership meeting held last Thursday at the Leamington Hotel in Oakland, By-Laws were approved and the following were elected to the Board of Directors :

For Alameda County, William Chatham, Jr. Loop Lumber & Mill Co. For Contra Costa County, Thomas Jacobsen, Jr., Sun Valley Lumber Co. For Marin County, Charles Lund, Henry Hess Co. For San Francisco County, James Higgins, Higgins Lumber Co. For San Mateo County, Wendell Scott, Progress Lumber Co. For Santa Clara County, Robert Cheim, Cheim Lumber Co.

At Large: Ernest Atkinson, Clinton Mill & Manufacturing Co.; Harry Benson, Benson Manufacturing & Sales Co.; James Doherty, El Cerrito Lumber Co.; Lutltrer Green. Gamerston & Green Lumber Co.; Tom Hogan, Hogan Wholesale Building Materials Co.; Abner Read, Pem-Line Manufacturing Co.

Immediately following the membership meeting the Board of Directors elected the following offrcers: President, William Chatham, Jr.: Vice Presidents, Harry Benson and Abner Read; Executive Vice President and Manager, Dwight C. Steele; and Assistant Secretary and Treasurer, Luther Green. The principal office of the Association will be at 1610 Harrison Street, Oakland 12.

Mr. Chatham, the newlY elected President made the following comments:

"We have lost a great friend and very valuable counselor with the death of Nat Edwards. His contribution to healthy relationships in the field of collective bargaining and the peaceful and fair settlement of dis-