Lumber Remanulacturers Urge Complete Decontrol Of Lumber and Building

At the annual meeting of its membership held on November 19, 1946, at Portland, Oregon, Pacific Lumber Remanufacturers' Association adopted the follow resolutions:

Resolution I

WHEREAS it is the consensus of opinion of the members of this Association and of practically all persons and business firms .with whom they have contact, that the need for governmental cohtrol on building and other materials no longer exists and that such controls result in endless confusion and substantially impede the reconversion program ancl that a return to the system of free enterprise will accomplish a solution to the housing and material shortage and related problems in the shortest possible period of time, NOW THEREFORE

BE IT RESOI VED that this Association does hereby go on record as advocating and urging the immediate decontrol o[ American industry, production and distribution and the elimination and liquidation of all federal agencies exercising such controls as typified by Civilian Production Administration, the Office of the Housing Expediter and National Housing Administration, and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this resolution be published in such trade and other publications to which the Association has access and that copies hereof be dis- tributed to all of the members of Congress representing the western states wherever our membership resides.

Resolution II

WHEREAS the OPA control and regulation of prices in the lumber and related service industries have been terminated and the purposes accomplished and

WHEREAS these industries fully coopdrated with the letter and spirit of such regulations and in all instances have attempted to abide by them and

WHEF-EAS notwithstanding an honest and sincere effort to comply therewith, numerous violation cases have been filed in the courts and are now pending therein and others are in the process of being and probably will be prepared and filed before the period of limitation has run and

WHEREAS practically all of such cases and the violations cla;med by the OPA to have occurred are neither wilful nor intentional, but result instead from varying interpretations of such regulations and the uncertainties inherent therein and

WHEREAS the prosecution of such cases and the comtinued filing thereof will not result in any clarification or precedent valuable in connection with the future administration of the price control law, NOW THEREFORE

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