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BETTER FRUIT 



March 



Plan of Fruit Growers' Council of the Pacific Northwest 



UnaDiinousely adopted by the 107 delegates at Tacoma, 'WaBbitigtoD, February V\ Hi and 17. 1^115. 



PLAN of Fruit Growers' Council of 

 Oregon, Washington, Idalio and 

 Montana for improving market- 

 ing conditions and bettering prices, 

 unanimously adopted by the 107 dele- 

 gates at Tacoma, Wash., Feb. 15-16-17: 



"For the purpose of securing, so far 

 as possible, proper and legitimate co- 

 operation which will lead to the ob- 

 taining for the benefit of the fruit 

 growers of the Pacific Northwest the 

 full amount to which they are entitled 

 for their fruits in the markets of the 

 world; and for the purpose of prevent- 

 ing unfair business methods by the 

 various shippers and handlers of 

 fruits, which will adversely affect the 

 interests of the growers of such fruit, 

 and for the purpose of further ad- 

 vancing the welfare of the fruit grow- 

 ers of the Northwest; be it hereby re- 

 solved : 



"1. That the Growers' Council, now 

 in session, be made a permanent or- 

 ganization; that the members elected 

 thereto serve for the ensuing year and 

 until their successors are elected. Sub- 

 sequent representation in said Council 

 to be determined at each annual meet- 

 ing of the Council upon the tonnage 

 of each district for the preceding year, 

 provided, that representation in the 

 Growers' Council to be held in .Janu- 

 ary, 1916, shall be on the same basis as 

 the representation in the Council now 

 in session. The annual meeting of the 

 Growers' Council shall be held on the 

 third Monday in January of each year, 

 and Ihe members thereof shall be 

 elected by the fruit growers of their 

 respective districts on the first Satur- 

 day after .January 1st of each year. 

 Special meetings of the Growers' 

 Council sliall be called by the Presi- 

 dent and Secretary thereof on the 

 written demand of the members of the 

 Growers' Council of any one or more 

 districts and as otherwise provided 

 herein. 



"2. That a Board of Control shall 

 be formed consisting of one member 

 from each of the fruit growing dis- 

 tricts designated and described below, 

 and for any additional district that 

 may hereafter be formed. Members of 

 this Board shall be elected at the an- 

 nual meeting of the Growers' Council 

 upon the nomination and recommen- 

 dation of their respective districts. 

 Members of the Board of Control shall 

 serve for one year or until their suc- 

 cessors are elected. Vacancies in the 

 membership of the Board of Control 

 shall be filled by the Board of Con- 

 trol upon nomination by a majority 

 of the members of the Growers' Coun- 

 cil from the district unrepresented by 

 reason of such vacancy. 



"3. The qualifications for member- 

 ship in the Growers' Council or the 

 Board of Control shall be as follows : 

 Such member shall be a bone fide 

 fruit grower in and from the district 

 that he represents, and no member of 

 the Board of Control shall be a sal- 

 aried official of any fruit sales agency 

 or one whose principal business con- 



sists in buying, assembling, or selling 

 for his own profit, fruit that is not 

 grown by himself. Members of the 

 Board of Control shall receive .$5.00 

 per day, and shall be paid their neces- 

 sary traveling expenses while attend- 

 ing to duties of their office. 



"4. The Board of Control shall be 

 authorized and empowered to elect an 

 Executive Committee of three, pro- 

 vided, that the Board of Control is 

 hereby instructed to elect as such Ex- 

 ecutive Committee the three men nom- 

 inated by the Growers' Council, who 

 shall be acceptable to the delegation 

 from the respective district from 

 which said person comes. Each mem- 

 ber of said Executive Committee shall 

 receive such compensation for his ser- 

 vices as shall be fixed by the Growers' 

 Council. The powers conferred by the 

 Growers' Council upon the Executive 

 Committee are hereby declared and 

 defined as follows: It shall be the 

 duty of the Executive Committee to 

 enter into negotiations with the Ship- 

 pers' League, or other duly authorized 

 representatives of the shippers of 

 Northwestern fruits, or any consider- 

 able numbers of them, for the follow- 

 ing purposes: (a) To obtain for fruit 

 growers the maximum amount of ser- 

 vice in return for the compensation 

 paid the shipper by the grower, (b) 

 To secure the adoption of such uni- 

 form methods for the transaction of 



business between shipper and grower 

 as will furnisli a fair basis of com- 

 parison, (c) To establish such prac- 

 tices with regard to the selling and 

 marketing of fruit as will tend to 

 eliminate consignment and auction 

 sales, prevent unwise and unfair com- 

 petition, and in every possible man- 

 ner stabilize the market and secure for 

 the grower the greatest possible net 

 return for his product, (d) In con- 

 junction and co-operation with the 

 shippers, to proceed, as occasion of- 

 fers, by conservative and well-con- 

 sidered measures to improve the con- 

 ditions affecting the production and 

 marketing of fruit, and especially to 

 promote the interests of the boxed 

 apple industry of the Northwest, (e) 

 To arrange for the collection through 

 the shippers of a tax, to be paid by 

 the grower, not to exceed % cent per 

 box on apples and pears, H cent per 

 crate on strawberries and 1/6 cent per 

 package upon other small fruits, $2.00 

 per carload of fruit shipped, to pro- 

 vide for the cost and expense of this 

 organization, all such funds to be sub- 

 ject to disbursement by the Executive 

 Committee, who shall make periodic 

 reports to the Board of Control, (f) 

 To make agreements with the ship- 

 pers for the carrying out of the pur- 

 poses herein outlined, and for other 

 purposes as the same may appear to 

 be mutually advantageous, and to en- 



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