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Impatient at the legislature's delay in passing an unemploy ment relief measure and cog nizant of the fact that produc tion in the lumber industry will be curtailed to about one-fourth of normal because of the large amount of stock on hand, Wisconsin lumber companies are planning their own methods of relief. A plan now in operation at the Holt Lumber company, Oconto, and its subsidiary, the Bay de Noquet company, Nahma, Mich, both em ploying 1,500 men, is now under consideration by a group of prom inent lumbermen from all sections of the state. Under the Holt company's sys tem officers and employes who are on a steady salary or who work more than 170 hours a month con tribute not more than six per cent of their wages to a general fund; the lumber firm contributing an amount equal to fifty per cent of the general fund. A committee con sisting of the general manager and four employer determines the amount to be contributed and to be paid out to those In need of re lief. Recipients of ald agree to re pay 600 per cent of the “loans” without interest In two years. Members of the lumbermen's committee In charge of arrange ments for the relief plan are: W. A. Kolt, Oconto, chairman; C. A. Good man, Marinette; M. J. Fox, Wau eau; J. D. Mylrea, Rhinelander; C. J. Kingel, Merrill, and W. D. Con nor, Marshfield. The newly-enacted Rush in which enables the state tax com mission to make re-assessments on income taxes as far back as 1924 aiso allows filing of claims for re fends retroactive to that date. Edward L. Kelley, chairman of
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La Crosse Tribune and Leader Press
La Crosse, Wisconsin, US
Tue, Sep 01, 1931
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