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Lurnber Unions Lose Pleq

The bid of two lumber workers' unions for $10 million to $20 million in pay lost by members locked out during a 1963 strike has lieen rebuffed by a trial examiner in a National Labor Relations Board hearing in San l'rancisco.

Jame-. R. Hemingway recommended to the NLRB dismissal of the unions' complaints that four timber firms had illegally locked out 1,1.000 men durins the strike in northern California and the Pacific Northwest.

The firms-Crown Zellerbach, International Paper. Rayonier and Weyerhaeuser 'limber-were members of a bargaining asso. ciation with two other firrns struck bv the International Woodrrorkers and the Saumill Workers L nion.

T'hey closed after the strike was called-"to protect group solidarity against selective strikes." Hemingrvay ruled. Thus, he said, the action was a defensive, legal move rather than retaliatort' and unlawful.

The unions plan to appeal Hemingrvay's finding to the NLRB in Vashineton.

Georgiq-Pocific Acquires Bestwqll

Stockholders of Ceorgia-Pacific corporation and Be-stwall Gypsum company har.e approved the merger of Bestwall into GeorgiaPacific. Also announced was that Georeia-Pacific sales. carnings. and cash flow for the first quarter of 1965 establishei r"* p!.. {ormance records.

Products manufactured by Bestwall Gypsum in<rlude gypsum wallboard, gypsum lath, gypsum plaster-<, along with plasterboard and decorative materials.

Five New tMA Associote Members

The addition of five more wholesale firms to LMA's growing associate membership roster was announced last month by executir,t' vice-president Bob McBrien.

The five new members are: lawmill Sales Co., Wendell Paquette and John Prime owners; E. A. Padula Lumber Co., Elmer Padula owner; Pacific Forest Products of Fresno, Don Walker manager; Challenger l,ock Company, Butch Mannheimer. northern California reprcsentative, and Broyles Lumber Co., Les and Brad Broyles, ow.ner-c.

Interim Pqrticleboqrd Stondqrd

The National Particleboard Association has issued a new industry standard which reflects changes and improvements in particleboard during the past four years.

The standard. subscribed to by the 17 members of \PA who account {or some B0 per cent of the mat-formed wood particleboard production in the United States, outlines, in chart form, the base physical properties of the various tlpes of particleboard manufactured hy the NPA member-".

The interim industry standard is being issued now by NPA while linal action by the U. S. Bureau of Standards is awaited on a new commercial standard. The particleboard industry has had a commercial standard since f96I (CS236-61). The new industry standard, (designated TS 5594 B, by the Bureau of Standards) has been circulated to user industries for comment as a step toward creating a new commercial standard.

Panels made liy companies -"ubscribing to the standard are classified into I0 difierent categories by physical properties to help specifiers and users determine which type of panel is best suited for a specific end use.