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San Francisco, May 26-12,000 Bay area striking carpenters will start voting tomorrow, to accept or reject strike-ending agreement, signed by their negotiators Saturday. Joseph F. Candiano, international representative A.F.L., predicts they will accept.

As we go to press most of the Fir mills in Washington and Oregon that were affected by the CIO strike have reached an agreement with the union and are now operating. A few mills are still down but an early settlement is expected.

The negotiating committee of the more than 2O large plywood and door manufacturing plants that were down came to an agreement with the union and the men returned to work on May 15.

Portland, Oregon, May 1S-Douglas fir sawmill men are witnessing an interesting neck-and-neck race as orders for their lumber keep pace with shipments from their mills. In the first four months of 1952, orders and shipments totaled 3,514 billion board feet each.

Production of. 3,494 billion feet, said Harris E. Smith, secretary, West Coast Lumbermen's Association, is 68 million feet below output for the same period in 1951. Orders and shipments for 1952 also are below 1951 figures.

Smith said the effects of the closure of some camps and mills by the general strike is not reflected in production figures just released.

The weekly average of West Coast Lumber production in April was 212,273,000 b.f. or L13.4/o of the L947-1951

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8tlf Fnf,NCtSCO OFATCE average. Orders averaged 205,840,000 b.f.; shipments 218,64,f,W b.f. Weekly averages for March were: Production 210,931,000t b.f. (IL2.7% of the 1947-1951 average); orders 200,078,000* b.f ; shipme nts 2@,621,00O* b.f.

Four months of 1952 cumulative production 3,494,744,M b.f.; four months of 1951, 3,562,361,000 b.f.; four months of 1950, 2,894,335,000 b.f.

Orders for four months of. 1952 breakdown as follows: Rail and truck, 2,4I4,690,m b.f.; domestic cargo, 709,656,000 b.f. ; export, 2I9,49tf!,W b.f. ; local, 170,745,m b.f..

The industry's unfilled order file stood at 9M,290,0ffi b.f.. at the end of April, gross stocks at 940,238,000 b.f.

*Adjusted to latest figures available.

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