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Show EFFORT TO REVIVE LUMBER INDUSTRY CHICAGO, Jan. 1. A national conference con-ference of lumber dealers will be held here January S and ( at the request of Kdward Htnea. head of a lumber company. "Lumber manufacture is the second largest industry In the country." said Mr. Hines. In Issuing- his call, "but it Is practically at a standstill. It Is time to take an inventory of the facts." "Iiuildlng must no on If lumber Is to he sold. We are five years behind in building;. Building must be stabilised. stabil-ised. Lumber prices are below cost of production lust now." Mr. Hines said the lumber dealers would take stock of their business, including: labor and living costs and waees paid, together with the consideration consid-eration of steady work with a reasonable reason-able reduction from the present wage scales, rather than high wages and periods of Idleness. "It is time to get things moving." |