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How Lumber Lrooks

The big news in Pacific Coast lumber is the CIO longshoremen's strike which covers the entire Pacific Coast, and which started on September 2nd. Only two or three lumber carrying vesseles are now in service on the entire Coast, and everything is tied up tight at all the lumber docks. Harry Bridges and subordinates estimate that the strike will last a month or more. It is in progress as this issue of THE CLM goes to press. What the effects of the strike will be is not immediately apparent. It may be the means of developing a certain amount of car shortage.

One of the longest, bloodiest battles in the history of the Los Angeles docks took place at the Los Angeles harbor the first day of the sstrike between AFL and CIO union men when the former, members of the crew of the lumber ship Rolando, attempted to unload the vessel. The battle raged for hours, and many on both sides were injured in the melee. Finally the ship was withdrawn without being unloaded. Then on September Sth, under guard of 500 Los Angeles police equipped for riot service, the AFL men unloaded the lumber from the ship. This time there was no open opposition.

The West Coast Lumbermen's Association report for the week ending August 28th, showed 162 mills reporting the following facts: Orders, 91,989,000 feet; Production, IO5,497,0W; Shipnients, 97,628,W; Unfilled Orders, 465,894,000.

Western Pine Association reports for week ending August 28th, for 106 mills: Orders 67,04O,M; Shipments, 7 2,483,0W ; Production 81,237,000.

Southern Pine Association reports for 106 mills for week ending August 28th: Orders, 19,043,000; Shipments, 18,I 94,000 ; Production, 17,263,W ; Unfi lled Orders, 69,496,W0.

California Redwood Association reported for the month of July for ten mills: Orders, 2D,812,0N; Shipments, 229,7 59,W ; Production, 256,813,000.

National Lumber Manufacturers Association reporting tor 406 mills for week ending August 28th : Shipm ents 9.5/o below production; Orders were 17.6/o below production; Unfilled Orders amount to 48 per cent of mill stocks. For the year-to-date period, shipments of reporting identical mills were 2.0/o above production and orders were l.S% above production.

Building permits in Los Angeles for the first eight months of 1948 totaled $81,231,545, which surpasses the totals of any previous entire year in the history of the city. Building permits for that same period totaled 45,800, also a record.