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Oroville, Calif.-A new trade union, unaffiliated rvith any national or international labor organization, has been formed in Butte county and r,r,ill concentrate its organizing drive in the building trades. Named the Independent Builders Assn., the neu' union has been incorporated in California. According to Attorney Albert M. King, legal counsel, the IBA has 50 members and rvas organized n hen they became dissatisfied u'ith the policies of the unions that formerly represented them. According to the bylau's, the IBA members l'ill l.rave the right to seek their or,vn jobs .,r'ithout having to go through a hiring hall, rvill set a special nage scale, lorver than the prevailing u.age, for members 65 years old and over, and itnill not seek memberships from men presently in other labor unions. The articles give the union po\\'er to neqotiate contracts rvith employers, bargain f<tr \vages and engage in common labor union activities; provisions have been made to estal>lish locals elservhere in California and the country.

Nlountain Vierv, Calif.-Firemen beat don'n a $15,000 fire in the Sterling Lumber Co. yard, May 5, just minutes before it got out of control, and nabbed a LZ-year-old boy as the arson suspect. The child made a tape-recorded confession and rvas detained in San Jose.

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Redding, C:rlif.-Judge Albert F. Ross has rejected the latest of several versions of a suit by I-ocal 13-433, CIOIWA, against the Ralph L. Smith Lumber Co. since it was first filed in Shasta County Superior Court, Dec. 6, 1955. The suit charges the company r.vith breach of contract in failing to discharge a nonunion employee rvhen the union asked his clismissal.

C. C. Crorv Publications has bought Western Equipment and Industry, the tabloid ne\vsl)aper of the equipment sicle of logging and lumber in the 11 r,vestern states.

Herb Caen's S. F. Chronicle column recently told of a Gray Lines torlr to the Nltiir \\'oods ir-r u,hich a Little Old Lady from Texas (they're the n,orst kind) rvas a passenger. As Guide Charles Foster pointed out the spectacle of the giant redrvoods, she became more arrd rnore irritated and finallv blurted out, "Maybe rve DON'T have trees this tall in Texas, but u,e sure as heck have the u'ind that cor,rld blou, 'em over." Everybocly back in the bus !

Kenneth J. Iron'ers has l>een appointed assistant merchandise manager of The Celotex Corp., gypsum sales dept. F1agstaff, Ariz.--John Yost, 85-year-olcl r'ardman for Southrvest Lumber XIills' division here, t'as rvritten up in a recent issue of The Arizona I{epublic (I'hoenix) on the approach of 6O active years in the same mill yard, during rvhich he outlasted three former sau'mill managernents. He has reported every day since Sept. 21, 1897, rrhen he rvent to rvork for the Arizctna Lnmber ct Timber Co.

The Ukiah Daily Jorrrnal, N'Iay 1, reported the resignation of Gordon Dixon as resident manager of the Masonite Corporation's operations there. Dean Thatcher assumed duties as acting manager.

Alaska Lumber & Pulp Co., subsidiary of Alaska Pulp Co., Ltd., Iapan, announced in Seattle plans to start construction this sumrner on a $55.5 million pulp mill at Sitka. A preliminary contract n'ith the USFS guarantees the Japanese firm 5l billion b.f. of timber u,hen construction starts.

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