Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Prices and market conditions. 1923-03-17

Admits fixing lumber prices. - "Question of jail or poorhouse" in 1916 for mill men, says Bloedel. - At federal hearing. - Memory fails about recommending "adjustment of items now out of line." - J. H. Bloedel of this city, vice president of the Douglas Fir Exploitation and Export company, on the stand for the defense here today in a hearing on charges by the federal trade commission that the company controlled prices by coercion, declared that "it was a question of the jail or the poorhouse" with mill operators in 1916 when they organized the accused concern.