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(Continued from Page 6) spot. The Board ruled tfiat this employer had utilized a preacher as "a convenient instrument of interference, restraint, and coercion," by using him to conduct an active religious campaign against C.I.O. unionists. It is related that this clerygman preached a serrnon on C.I.O. and alleged that it means "Christ Is Out." And the Board held the employer responsible. ***

One of the most notable cases involving a lumber concern and the NLRB is that of the Carlisle Lumber Company, of the State of Washington. Ordered by the Board to pay 148 employes $150,000 back pay, the Compafiy plead that such payment would eat up all its possessions and put it out of business. A special master was appointed by the Circuit Court of Appeals at San Francisco to investigate the situation, and he recently reported to the Court that in his opinion the lumber company COULD pay the whole thing in five years without going out of business, if carefully managed. The master rejected the company's offer to pay 4O% in cash in the shape of six-year notes, and the other 60/o in negotiable scrip for logged-off lands. The master submitted a formula for having the whole thing paid in cash in the next five years, and keep the business going. What the company will do about the decision is not yet known. They must either comply with the decision or go out of business and let the assets be liquidated in favor of the employes.

An interesting highlight of this strange thing that has happened to a once important lumber manufacturer and large employer of labor, is the opinion of the special master that $15O,000 could be paid by operating for the next five years. Certainly such an opinion must be based upon a belief that there will be profit-making opportunity in the lumber business in Washington for the next five years, greater than those of the past five. With the exception of 1937 the past five years have been nightmare years for the Northwest mill men. Only a decided and continued upswing of business would enable this mill to make so siz- able a pro6t. Let us hope that the ability of this court investigator to prognosticate is upheld by developments, and that all the lumber manufacturers of the Northwest are enabled to make such a return on their investment and efforts in the next five years. Surely the sawmill business in that great territory for the past fifteen years has been just one continuous series of business heart-breaks. Wouldn't the banks of the Pacific Northwest rejoice if they thought the lumber business for the next five years would be that good? Because the banks of the Northwest have been in the lumber business for years past, plumb up to the tops of the smokestacks.

Right now it would reguire no great fund of optimism to make a fellow feel that perhaps this prognosticator was right about lumber prospects. As this is written the best softwood lumber market in twenty years prevails all over this nation. It was caused and created by the rush of Government orders for countless defense propositions, all the way frorir the Panama Canal to Alaska. So far as the particular items of lumber called for in the specifications are concerned, they cleaned the.country right quick. Naturally, domestic buyers caught the drift of things and decided maybe they'd better not wait too long, and they began sending in plenty of orders. Result, Douglas Fir and Yellow Pin+dry<ver-sold everywhere, and a very excited market situation.

What the immediate fr]tuie rlu, or, still remains to be seen. No one can say what the total needs of Government will be this fall, or what the domestic market will demand. That there will be a very strong and active dernand for dry softwoods throughout the nation for the next several months, is something in the nature of a cinch. Further than that it would be unwise to predict. I can easily imagine conditions that would cause a powerful and continued demand for lumber for the next two or three years. It will take that long for the defense program to get well organized. And if private enterprise ever gets going again there will be a strong and lasting lumber demand. Right now there is a slackening in the demand for homes for young folks. Naturally a boy who may be in the army in thirty days, is not going to sign notes to make payments on a home. But on the other hand the defense campaign will directly bring about the creation of new housing that will likely more than atone for this youthful withdrawal. Tremi:ndous housing efforts will soon be made to care for employes in huge defense units scattered all over the land. They.are inevitable. And, in six months time, there will be a scattering of present fogs in the economic situatioru and we will be able to judge. We will probably know by Christmas what to expect for the next year I and the next, also. And from now until Christmas I predict that the lumber manufacturing business will be very good.

\7'estern Pine Semi-Annual Meeting \f. R. Burt \(/inner of John N. Van Der

Swift Berry of Michigan-California Lumber Co', Camino, Calif., president of the Western Pine Association, presided at the semi-annual m,eeting of the Association, held at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, August 9.

Secretary-manager S. V. Fullaway presented his report of Association activities for the first half of the year.

W. E. Grifiee, assista,nt manager, analyzed the statistical position of the \Mestern Pine industry.

The various standing committees held their meetings in the two days preceeding the general meeting.

President Berry presented the report of the executive and economic committee. W. E. I;amm reported for the grading committee; E. C. Wert for the promotion committee; Hal Dixon for the research committee; Don Lawrence for the statistical committee and A. J. Voye for the traffic committee.

Dr. Wilson Compton, secretary'manager of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, spoke on the relation of lumber to the national defense program. In the course of his talk he said that it was estimated that there will be a demand for defense purposes for four to five billion feet of lumber in the next year, an,d he thought the total consumption of lumber f'or 1940 would be about 28 billion feet.

C. H. Collingwood of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association spoke o,n forest conservation.