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As this issue goes to press on Septembet 28, the CIO longshoremen's strike which has tied up West Coast shipping is in its 27th day with no settlement in sight. 130 American flag vessels are tied up in West Coast ports. Approximately 6,250 officers and merchant seamen are idle, together with most of the lz,WO longshoremen.

Lumber production in the Northwest is starting to be seriously hampered by the strike, coupled with a rail car shortage. About 100 small mills have closed, and others are planning to suspend or reduce operations.

Lumber shipments of. 414 mills reporting to the National Lumber Trade Barometer, National Lumber Manufacturers Association, were 19.3 per cent below production for the week ended September 11, 1948. In the same week new orders of these same mills were I4'7 per cent below production. Unfilled order files of the reporting mills amount to 46 per cent of stocks. For reporting softwood mills unfilled orders are equivalent to 25 days' production at the current rate, and gross stocks are equivalent to 53 days' production.

The Western tember ll, l0z feet; shipments feet. Orders on 077,000 feet.

Pine Association for the week ended Sepmills reporting, gave orders as 56,479,000 55,256,000 feet, and production 66,233,OW hand at the end of the week totale d 187,-

The Southern Pine Association for the week ended September 11, 83 units (107 mills) reporting, gave orders as 15,303,000 feet, shipments 15,617,000 fed:t, and production

15,616,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 68.987,000 feet.

The California Redwood Association for the month of July, compiled from reports of ten companies, gave orders received as D,639,000 feet, shipments 26,452,000 feet, and production 30,088,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the month totaled 50.943.000 feet.

The West Coast Lumbermen's Association for the week ended September 4, 162 mills reporting, gave orders as 92,161,W feet, shipments 99,193,000 feet, and production 101,281,000 feet. Unfilled orders at the end of the week totaled 458,D2,000 feet.

For the week ended September Il, 162 mills reporting, gave orders as 76,449,000 feet, shipments 67,842,N0 feet, and production 89,280,000 feet. Unfilled orders at the end of the week totaled 462,384,000 feet.