"To make matters worse, foreign nations buy our raw materials and then proceed to put us out of business by dumping their surplus plywood on the world market" Mr.
Oxholm said. "at one time Germany took more than 12,000,000 feet of American plywood. Now she only takes raw logs, places a ban against finished American plywood and causes the north-west mills and workmen to suffer.
A peeler log placed on a foreign ship represents about $2 per ton in labour charges, Mr. Oxholm estimated. It costs another $25 for labour to produce a ton of finished plywood in this country.
Foreign producers, however, can outbid American in the world because Japanese labour, for ins receives three cents per hour compared to 78 cents averaged in Pacific North-west plants, Mr. Oxholm said—United Press.
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