The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-01-16
THE NEW PROVO STORE.

A few days ago We made brie
e announcement to the effect ths
Messrs. James Dunn, superintendent
OF the wooden factory at Provo, A. o
lSmoot, jr., and w. @. A. Smoot Eer,
IN this city making purchases for G
new store which was 10 be started al
once in Provo. On the strength oil
this item, the impression seems to
! have gained that the new business
was to be inaugurated as an opposi-
Iion movement to the Cooperative
ttore at Provo. This is not the case.
1t has no such object, neither 10 ap-
pearsnce nor in fact. The new store
is to be started and managed in con-
neotlon with the Woolsn factory at
Provo; and is the result OF q deliber-
ate consideration OF the best means
OF obviating difficulties and supplying
deficiency that have been felt by Mr..
Dunn, as manager OF the wooden
mills. for some time past. As is
known, the factory employs q very
large number OF hands during the
year, 10 whom a very large amount is
paid as salaries. 1t has been the GUS
tom to pay these hands part OF their
earnings in the goods produced at the
mill; these employees have taken to
selling the goods thus received, and
have thus entered, in q rounds bout
and perfectly legitimate way, into
competition with their employers in
she sale OF the products OF the mill
This was all right, but it did not end
there. These employees fnslly began |
TO sell the goods they received Gs
wages at q figure lower than that
which they themselves had paid for
the products, and consequently
at prices below those at which the
mill sold the goods; thus not only de.
,rsssing the value of their own labor,
but entering into an unfair compsti.
ion with the mill and iDjuriDg its
business. The means devised for
putting an end to this practice,
vas 10 discontinue the custom OF
paying goods to the employees regu-
arly as part of their salaries, and Z
tarting a store. carrying q general I
took OF merchandise, a. which go
much of the salary as had formerly
'een paid in cloth and the products
4 the factory, could be taken out, :
bus avoiding the competition that
Iat been inaugurated, and render
ng it any longe. unnecessary fer en-
loyes to barter their own wages for +
be necessities and common luxuries /
I life. Moreover, in its transactions Q
18th firms here and elsewhere, which
andle the goods of the mill, it has
cen found necessary to take merchan-
lee in exchange in cases, and under Z
le present arrangement it can be
one with mutual profit aid without
During the wOrkmen of the mill. 4
gain, Mr.. Dunn states that the G
ill purchases large amounts of 9,
DOL, for which it pays cash, and
lose bringing the wool and receiving
le cash from the factory not un- =
come IL Fat Lake and y
bend considerable amounts of it in y
le purchase of merchandise,
hich the mill, with it's new E
ore branch, can as we'll fill, u
I'D make trlfe on it without doing v
jury to any ons else. There are
her considerations which need not =,
} enumerated, that have led to the p
to open this new store, +
I'd the fact that men who are among
10 principal owners in the lag
~ are ALEC large stockholders III @
e Coop. should be a convincing Il
gumeul that the object is anything llu
1t competition with the Co0perA tive 10
lstitution.
The new store will pot confine its n,
lsiness to factory employees. but will h.
thrown open TO public patronage ~
well, and will therefore be com. A.
,lled TO sell at the same figures ss r
her and like business houses, which
es TO prove that the intention is IN
u to force employees to purchase at al
Is place and pay whatever price To
ay be asked, but they will have the N
neft OF public competition and
erefore get their goods just as low n,
other people. &
As manager OF the factory Mr. q
INN will also have general super m
sion OF the new store, but it will be
lder the immediate direction OF
r. a. .. Smoot, who will be assisted a.
Mr.. w @ A. Smoot as treasurer Y
the company. The work of the IT
ntlemen here is completed for the IT
esent. and the new store will be
ened at Provo without delay. ta