Hearing on Lumber Code July 29

Washington, July 11.-The lumber industry submitted its code to the Industrial Recovery Board today, and Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, Industrial Administrator, set July 20 for hearing when the industry's agreement on minimum wages and the maximum hour week will come up for examination.

Conservation of timber resources and control production, wages and rvorking hours are provided in the code approved by twenty-six associations. The code divides the industry in numerous divisions, according to products, adjusting wage and hour levels to conditions in each. The terms prescribed in each are:

Cypress: Forty-eight hours, 22rf cents an hour.

Northern hemlock: Forty-eight hours, 25 cents in lumber manufactur e; 221 cents in logging camps.

Northern pine: Forty-eight hours, 32f cents in lumber; 25 cents logging.

Northeast softwood: Forty hours, 22f cents in logging camps; 25 cents in mills.

Redwood: Forty-eight hours in manufactwe at 32f cents; forty hours in logging camps at same rate.

Southern pine: Forty-eight hours, 22rl cents.

West coast logging and lttmber: Forty-eight hours in logging, 40 hours in manufacture; factory labor 40 cents, other 42/z cents.

Western pine: Same as west'coast except for Arizona and New Mexico, where 22f cents and forty-eight hours would prevail.

Western red cedar shingle : Same as west coast, with 4O cents for stained shingle subdivision.

Woodwork industry: Forty hours average over each half year with forty-eight hours individual weekly maximum; gives same as sawmill minimums of various regions with 25 cents as absolute minimum and no more than 25 per cent of each mill's employment in minimum classification.

Veneer industry: Forty-four hours in southern zone with 25 cents an hour; forty hours in north with 30 cents generally and 40 cents in metropolitan cities.

Oak flooring: Forty-eight hours, 22f cents in towns under 5000: 25 cents from 5000 to 50,000 population; 27% cents above.

Walnut: Forty hours, 25 to 40 cents, wages same as veneer.

Hardwood: Forty-eight hours, 22f cents, with 25 cents in north central and northeastern mills.

Mahogany: Forty hours, 30 cents in southern zone, 4O in northern, 45 cents in Philippines mah'ogany industry.