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The strike of CIO woodworkers, which started April 28 at midnight, has closed several hundred sawmills, plywood and door plants, and logging camps in Oregon, Washington and Northern California. As we go to press there has been no settlement of the strike.

Douglas fir production has been curtailed about 40/o, or at the rate of nearly a half billion feet a month. Most of the logging camps are CIO but many of the plants now remaining open by working 1og inventories are AFL.

The 22 Pacific Northwest plywood plants affected are losing a rveekly cut of about 8 million square feet.

A few pine mills in Northern California are affected by the strike. ***

The carpenter's strike in the San Francisco Bay Area is still on, and no settlement is in sight as we go to press.

Lumber shipments tf 4;,i,,,Jr.nor,ing to the National Lumber Trade Barometer were 5.5 per cent above production for the week ended April 26, 1952. In the same week new orders of these mills were 0.1 per cent below production. Unfiiled orders of the reporting mills amounted to 42 per cent of stocks. For the reporting softwood mills, unfilled orders were equivalent to 23 days' production at the current rate, and gross stocks were equivalent to 52 days' production.

For the year-to-date, shipments of reporting identical mills werc 5.8 per cent above production; orders r,vere 7.0 per cent above production.

Compared to the average corresponding week of 19351939, production of reporting miils was 76.7 per cent above; shipments were 69.6 per cent above; orders w'ere 63.7 per cent above. Compared to the corresponding week in 1951, production cf reporting mills was 10.9 per cent below; shipments were 3.0 per cent beiow; and new orders were 11.4 per cent below.

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The \\restern Pine Association for the week ended April 26, ll0 mills reporting, gave orders as 63,699,000 feet, shipments 65745.0W feet, and production 61,401,000 feet. Orders crn l-rand at the end of the \\'eek totaled 235,191,000 fcet,

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