. Canadian forest industries July-December 1919. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 3S CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER August 1. 1!*19 the necessity for a continued individual effort. Do not for a moment think that your association, or your community is going to get along without something from you. There are two kinds of labor: produc- tive and nonproductive. In a sense this definition may be applied here. If the majority of an industry or community are alive, hustling, wideawake, aggressive business men, willing to get away from their
. Canadian forest industries July-December 1919. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 3S CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER August 1. 1!*19 the necessity for a continued individual effort. Do not for a moment think that your association, or your community is going to get along without something from you. There are two kinds of labor: produc- tive and nonproductive. In a sense this definition may be applied here. If the majority of an industry or community are alive, hustling, wideawake, aggressive business men, willing to get away from their own business for awhile and do something for the common good, you will find a prosperous group of people, but if in that prosperous body the drones, or non-producers, gradually increase until they are in the majority, you will see a decaying industry and a shrivelling commun- ity. One of the great dangers besetting the success of association work is the overlooking of this simple truth. We get to recognize the association as a great force and being a great force, we expect it to continue without efTort from us. So finally, I leave before you this broad principle, that no great co-operative success can be permanent without continued individual effort. The man who is waiting for something to happen; the man who does'not believe costs have increased; the man who kicks on war- time service, and the business bolshevik, are problems respecting which co-operative effort only can point out possible solutions. It is up to you and me as individuals using the knowledge in our posses- sion to meet these situations and move forward. Yardmen to Sell Lumber at Cost to Soldiers Through the agency of the Ontario Retail Lumber Dealers' As- sociation an arrangement has been made which will result in import- ant assistance being given to the Soldiers' Settlement Board of Can- ada, in connection with the settlement of returned soldiers upon farms in Ontario. Representatives of the Board have had a
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