Redwood Industry Adopts Fair

Competition Code

Meetings of representatives of the California RBdwood industry were held recently in San Francisco for the purpose of formulating and adopting a code of fair competition, in order to place themselves in a position to take advantage of the National Industry Recovery Act recently passed by Congress.

As 95 per ,cent of the total cut of Redwood lumber is produced by mills with membership in the California Redwood Association, the meetings were sponsored by the Association, and rvere presided over by Leonard C. Hammond, the Association's president. Details of the code were worked out by a committee appointed for this purpose.

The code will be presented by representatives of the industry to the Emergency National Committee of the lumber industry at the annual meeting of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association to be held in Chicago, June 20'

Pine lndustry Formulates Code at Portland Mecting

Formulation of a code of fair trade practices that will fit into the National Industry Recovery Act recently passed by Congress was undertaken by representatives of the Pine lumber industry at a meeting of the \Mestern Pine Association held in Portland, Ore., May 31 and June 1.

More than 100 Pine logging and mill operators from Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and California attended the meeting. In addition to these states the code will also apply to the Pine industry in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming and South Dakota, and it will also be submitted to operators of Minnesota for optional adoption.

R. R. Macartney, president of the'Western Pine Association, presided.

The code will be submitted by representatives of the industry to the Emergency National Committee of the lumber industry at the annual meeting of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, to be held in Chicago, June 2O.