Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-01-11 | Page 17 | Dwelling Shortage Result of High Lumber Cost

DWELLING SHORTAGE ! RESULT OE HIGH LUMBER COST 1 J i Boyle Says Dealers and ! Manufacturers Can Remedy Rem-edy Situation J By RALPH F. COUCH, United. Press Gtaff Correspondent. WASmNfiOTN. .Ian. 11. M..re than ' I.mkio lumb'T manufacturers and dal-. dal-. r arc now ri a position to d mrr j than lh"ir shat in let nit rial :hk tl' I nation wh! dwelling shorlai: I.. C liny!.' of i h National I, umber Va mi-i mi-i facturers' association announced hci today. At t he same time, just Ire- lit" t parinient officiuts w rr i oiuiuci ina; an irit'iiwaiitin of hij-'h lumlx r puce.j, which ar- blamed in pait f-r 1 1 . top- pac of building op"r t Ion;. J fioyle calil lumber ma n of a ' l rr ; are not anxious aiait Ihe t.port ', j Id conures yesterday, in wh.'-h ' he ' federal trade t-omnus.sMn eh;tik'''d thai ( lumber man u fact un-rs I hrouii I nob-i nob-i asstM-la i Ions control the output and prices of lumber throutfhout ihe cntirr I'nited States. "K Idem e presented Senator Cal-der's Cal-der's committee now iiieMidtinjr the lumber Industry oiitradb ts the charge 'of tlif federal trinlc rummisMiin," said U,.... !., mill.iii im.niimi iy ait mwMiiiat ion nut i i la: summer, by the fn'Htry bureau of Hie o r i-m-i1 1 ti r i" depart men r which be aid nIimi Th? J reiH tause of hiirh piii cs of himl-nr um ; l)inif shtirtaKe of stock-. While l!olf wa.H ti i scussj i.k th ?jit-j !uation. .linlKe N'eht'kcr, assislant at-l at-l true v general, and William (land New Ytrk attorney, were making plans for their InvesllKation of lumber prices and profits, which Nheker said would ! lie '"vigorous." Antitrust action would , result, he promised, if evident' was produced to show that lumber interests inter-ests had conspired to control prices or pteveut competition. ,