Voluntary Compliance in \(/estern Retail and Redwood Committeer

Pine Division High Meet in San Jose

Portland, Ore., Oct. 27.-A high degree of voluntary compliance with the provisions of the Lumber Code in the 'Western Pine Division is responsible for the relatively few cases of noncompliance recently considered by the Division's Trade Complaints Committee and shows clearly the fine cooperative spirit existing among manufacturers of the Western Pines in their effort to keep employment at western sawmills at a maximum, according to a statement made today by S. V. Fullaway, Jr., Secretary-Manager of the Western Pine Association, the Division Administrative Agency. Mr. Fullaway further stated that compliance in the Western Pine Division with the minimum price and production control provisions has not jeopardized the volume of business handled by the pine sawmills. The experience of the pine group has proven that compliance with Lumber Code provisions is not impossible of accomplishment, Mr. Fullaway said.

Of some eighteen irregular compliance cases rvhich rvere brought to the attention of the Western Pine Trade Complaints Committee, satisfactory adjustment was reached on more than fifty per cent of them and it is expected that the necessity of legal action by the NRA rvill be required on very few of the cases which were not adjusted at the Committee meeting. This is significant in view of the fact that the Western Pine Division is comprised of nearly nineteen hundred sawmills.

A meeting attended by the Lumber Committee of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association and the Redwood Relations Committee was held in San Jose October 26. This was the llth meeting of the two grlups.

W. K. Kendrick, sales manager of the Valley Lumber Co., Fresno, presided. The attendance of retailers was representative of all parts of the State, and the Redwood industry was well represented.

It is planned to hold the next meeting in Stockton in Februarv.

Represents P. O. Cedar Mill

M. J ."Ben" Byrnes, San Francisco, has been appointed exclusive representative in Northern California for J. R. Thompson Logging Co., Marshfield, Ore., manufacturers of Port Orford Cedar.

T. B. Wilson will assist Mr. Byrnes in sales, calling on the trade in the San Francisco Bav district territorv.

Making Good Recovery

Ralph P. Duncan, general manager of the Merced ber Co., Merced, was a recent San Francisco visitor. recovering nicely from a fractured jaw sustained automobile accident three months ago.