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Title: Canadian forest industries January-June 1920
Identifier: canadianforjanjun1920donm (find matches)
Year: 1920 (1920s)
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Subjects: Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries
Publisher: Don Mills, Ont. : Southam Business Publications
Contributing Library: Fisher - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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January 15, 1920 CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER 53
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On the left is seen the sixteen-months old son .of A. Blomberg, Superintendent of the Mainland Cedar Co., Vancouver, who is con- ducting a miniature log run on the chair. In the centre is a view of the high lead system of logging, so much in evidence in the West, and on the right are several contented "porkers," manufactured from the left-overs in the kitchen of the logging company. Deputation Urges Bonus for Shipbuilding Representatives of seventeen shipbuilding companies waited on the Government at Ottawa recently to urge assistance to shipbuild- ing in Canada. They requested that, for a term of ten years, the Government should grant a bonus of ten dollars per displacement ton and ten dollars per indicated horsepower on steel ships built in Canada and completed after April 1, 1920. Without this assistance, the delegation claimed, existing plants could not be continuously employed, and the breaking up of the organization would necessarily follow. This, it was added, would throw large numbers of men out of employment, and undo "much of the good which the Government had achieved by means of the en- couragement given to the shipbuilding industry and in the employ- ment of returned soldiers, and men previously at work on muni- tions." Sir George Foster, on behalf of the Government, promised ear- nest consideration of the request for a bounty. It was agreed that the delegation should appoint a committee to confer further with members of the.Cabinet. Big Shipbuilding Plant Resumes Work has been resumed full blast at the shipyards of the Davie Shipbuilding Company at Lauzon, Que. Fifteen hundred men were employed there before closing, and now one thousand have been taken on. The balance of the men will gradually be taken back as opera- tions are resumed. There have been no changes in the management of the plant, the Canada Steamship Lines not having taken over the plant, as had been rumored. Boom and Slide Companies' Annuals The annual meetings, of the Sable & Spanish River Boom & Slide Co. and the Mississauga River Improvement Co. will be held at the Queen's Hotel, Toronto, on Thursday, January 22nd. The annual gatherings of the French River Boom Co- and the Log Pick- ing Association which operates on Georgian Bay, will be held at the same place on Friday, January 23. Officers for the coming year will be elected, reports presented and other business given attention. Trying to Revive Wooden Shipbuilding A recent despatch from Victoria, B. C, says:—Another company is in course of formation in Victoria to build and operate wooden schooners. The new organization, which has been under contempla- tion for some time, is headed by Harry Barnett, a well known local man with considerable practical shipbuilding experience, and pro- poses to avail himself of the federal government loan plan. Mr. Bar- nett, who has strong financial backing of local capitalists, proposes to float a shipbuilding and operating company at a capital of $300,000. The venture will be on co-operative lines and it is understood that a large percentage of labor is considering the investment of money in the new concern. It is proposed to build six 2000-ton, five-masted, topsail schooners- Price Bros. Will Resist Order "We will resist to the utmost of our power so that our own, as well as the industrial and commercial liberties of others, may be pro- tected against exactions and arbitrariness," said Sir William Price, of Quebec, with regard to the order of Newsprint Commissioner Pringle restricting newsprint shipments to the United States. "We base our refusal," declared Sir William, "on the total absence of jurisdiction in the Ottawa authorities and the paper controller, in the premises, and we will seek by all legal means at our disposal, to resist the carrying out of the orders given." A Definite Selling Plan and Why Have you a definite selling plan or are you simply sittinp in the office, waiting for the guy with the lumber bill and the wagon to show up and take some of your stock away from you? Don't you think you could profit by mapping out and then carrying through a selling campaign for your goods and your materials, and for the things that your goods and vour materials could be constructed into for the benefit of +he other fellow, for every season of the year? Have you made this preparation for this fall? Are you going to, for the coming winter? Folks need seasonable buildings like they do seasonable clothing, you know. Are you sending out to your trade pulling letters, ask- ing them to drop into your office, and telling them some of the things you have for sale? Are you dropping into their homes, to tell them those things? Are you re-arranging or re-fitting that office of yours to make it a place where you will be proud to have people come to discuss building plans? Are you building confidence and goodwill among your trade by the service you are offering—and giving? Are you wishing for good business? Or are you hustling to create good business? Your answer classifies you.—The Lumber Co.-operator.

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