Show LUMBER GROUP UP ATTACKS N RA Demand Abolition Westerners of Code Price Fixing as Unworkable WASHINGTON Dec Die 11 West JP-West West lumbermen attacked price fix fix- fOUl coast of the thO lumber code II provisions and unworkable impracticable practice as aJ Sic hearing before today to lo- t at a demanded their abolition day and described S coast lumbermen w West t under the lumber code as asES price ES ESto ice fixing to in that area are since last August dud dudin dead while witnesses at today's hearing Sd the situation on the Pacific especially especially the Pacific cout and and that if it predicted Jt it was s r I I 1 I their appeal a against price fixing is successful it probably will mean elimination of those provisions of the therode rode code throughout the country a all I though hough the h has s power to lo suspend suspend sus-j sus sus sus- pend them in any or all divisions Price fixing under the code died with the end of oC the strike last summer it was said and was vas permanently buried in that area a few weeks later when the trustees of the West Coast Lumbermen's association as as- voted for elimination 1 The westerners did not seek to overthrow the entire code but only desired elimination of th the price pro pro- visions Failure of the code was attributed attributed at- at I to several causes chief among them lack of control of wh whole whale lc- lc salers alers It was pointed out that the code prices brought about a situation whereby domestic consumers were forced to pay higher prices for Amer- Amer lean ican can lumber than foreign n purchasers due duc to the fact code prices are not note e effective against lumber exported |