Los Angeles Lumber Strike Situation

As we go to press no settlement has been reached be_ tween the retail yard employers and the union in the Los Angeles district in the four-weeks old lumber yard and sawmill strike. Following a conference between repersentatives of the A.F.L. Lumber and Sawmill Workers, Union and the employers on July 12, it was reported that another meeting would be held on July 14.

Representatives of the wholesale employers and unions in the Los Angeles Harbor area in a meeting on Saturday, July 8, accepted the compromise agreement proposed by James Wallace, mediator representing Mayor Fletcher Bowron. Mediator Wallace's proposal called f.or a 4 per cent wage increase and continuation of the 44-hour week until October 24 with another 4 per cent increase at that time and a reduction of the 44-hour week to 4O hours.

As the lumber w,orkers at the Harbor will not handle any lumber for shipment to the Los Angeles yards where the men are on strike, lumber operations at the Harbor are still tied up.

About 1200 men went out on June 17 at the 12 wholesale lumber plants at the Harbor.

At a meeting of the representatives of the retail yard employers and the union in the Los Angeles district on July lQ the.employers announced they could do no more than give their employes a 42-hour instead of the Dresent

44-hour week and keep the pay the same as for the 44rhour week-an ofter they made some time ago.

A retail lumber yard employer spokesman said: ,,We are declining to put the Harbor area agreement into effect uptown because it does not meet our situation.,,

About 1800 men in the retail yards in the Los Angeles area went out on lune 21.26 of. the 28 companies represented by the negotiating committee, operating orrer 50 lumber yards in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, are afiected by the strike.

Mr. Wallace and lJnited States Conciliators L. N. Sislev and E. H. Fitzgerald state they will continue their efiorts to bring the parties into agreement.

About 32,000,000 feet of lumber is being held aboard a number of vessels at the Harbor, awaiting end of the strike.

NEW CATALOG ON TRU-FIT DOORS

A new catalog on Tru-Fit Douglas fir entrance doors has just been published by the Fir Door Institute, Tacoma, Wash., and is now available for distribution to lumber dealers everywhere.

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