Meeting of Lumber Secretaries Bureau of Information and Delegates

[Chicago?]: [1903]. Meeting minutes from the 1903 joint conference of the Lumber Secretaries Bureau of Information and the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers Association. Includes a roll call for each of the three days, a change to Article 3 of the Constitution, a resolution from the Lumber Dealers Association for the protection of consumers from predatory wholesale lumber dealers and a motion to cooperate with the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers Association. Other resolutions are outlined and the minutes conclude with those from a meeting of the Board of Directors.

The Lumber Secretaries was founded in 1902 and grew out of a prior voluntary association called the Secretaries’ Association. It was later subjected to a number of anti-trust lawsuits, in which it was accused of “maintaining a spy system, blacklists, divisions of territory, and other alleged illegal methods…” (New York Times, September 28, 1911).

Eleven typed sheets (8” x 12 ½”) with some corrections in hand and one cut-and-paste paragraph added. Old folds and light wear to sheets, glue stains to one page. Item #9389

Price: $75.00