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Show LUMBERMEN DENY C ALDER'S CHARGES SALT LAKE, Feb 18. In a resolution resolu-tion pr-s ntej at the afternoon session of the convention of the Western ke-tuil ke-tuil Lumbermen's association today. Lh lumbermen denied charges attrlb-luted attrlb-luted to Senator t 'alder of New York I that lumber prices had recently Junip-'ed Junip-'ed to 3 it per cent, bringing them practically prac-tically back to the war peak level. I Senator Calder Is sold to have made this statement In demanding nn ln- vest Igatlon of the industry" nd of the (lumbermen's association In part the resolution says' j Such statements are not in har-i har-i mony with the truth; they nre absolutely abso-lutely falRe There art approximately 10,000 retail lumber dealers In the I Ijhlted fltatea An investigation would I reveal the fad that SO per cent bnl-nnced bnl-nnced their books In the red for 1921. Considering the heavy transportation transporta-tion ndvan es lumber i being sold today to-day to the consumer nnd home build-I build-I T more cheaply than In former years I "Fnlae reports which have the effect of discouraging homo building are destructive de-structive and weaken the bulwark of 'American institutions" , Another resolution complains of; high freights and protests the abolish- j i ment of the principle- of the long! and short haul. |