Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-05-29
OPEN LETTER AND REPLY.
Correspondence Between tho Fruit Asso-
citation and Uruit Union.


Correspondence Between tho Fruit Asso-
citation and Uruit Union.
The following letters, published in the
Rural Press, are self explanatory
Editors Press: desire to ask A. T. Hatch,
President of the California Fruit Union,
the following questions;
In your contract with Porter Bros. Co.
entered into on the 18th of March, 1856.
you agree to pay 10 it commission of ten
per cent. upon the gross receipts derived
from the sale of all fruit consigned to il as
the agent of the Union. Your Board of
! Directors, on the 10th day of Februs-v.
| 1886, passed the following resolution, 10
wit: "All shippers through the California
Fruit Union shall pay to the Union fiyeper
cent. on the sales value OF their fruit
shipped; and in case said shippers wish
also to avail themselves of the selling facil-
tiles of the Union, they shall pay an addi-
honal five per cent. commission on such
sales"
In this resolution you have levied A COM
| mission of five per cent. upon all shipments
made through the Union, it matterfng not
to whom they may be consigned and also
commission for selling, if sold BY the
| agent of the Union
From the above statement of facts, it will
be seen that you have levied a commission
of 5 per per cent. for shipping, and have
| also contracted TO pay commission of 10
per cent. for selling which, in the aggre-
gate, makes commission of 10 per cent,
unless your Board of Trustees should as
sumo that the commission of per cent,
| levied by the resolution of February 10,
1856, belonged to the corporation then the
commission would amount to 20 per cent;
{ nt h9rWiSp II will in ct =
| will also ask how you harmonic YOUR
actions of the 10th of February last in stat
ing that the commission for selling through
the agency OF the Union would be per
cent, and that of March 18th, when you
| agreed TO give Porter Bros CO. a commits
sion OF 10 per cent. for selling?
How Is it possible to paw Porter Bros.
| 20. 10 per cent. commission, collect a
commission offs per cent. for shipping. and
| nave the total commission amount to less
than Is per cent?
An immediate reply is solicited to the
above questions, for upon the character OF
| your answers depends much. and. if salts
factory, will 20 a long way to obviate
trouble and perpexities in the future.
yours respectfully, r. D. STErHENs,
President Cal. Fruit-Growers' Association.
Reply of HIr. Hatch.
Editors Press: In answer to the ouestions
of Il. d. Stephens, President of the Sacra-
mento Shippers Fruit Union, in the Rural
of May 22d, about fruit matters. addressed
to me, would say If the gentleman has
not found out the answers to them bv this
| time it will be more than useless to answer
him again, as the very same questions have
already been answered in his hearing sew
eral times, and to the satisfaction of every
body except the enemies of the California
Fruit Union, whose garblings, misinterpre-
tatlons and misrepresentation we do not
! intend to notice at all in The future, as their
only desire is to mislead-so far. we are
happy to say, with no success
If any friends of the Union wish anv
explanations of anything relating to the
Union, we will be pleased to answer at any
: time.
If any of our members-a producer who
ships goods through the Uniou-fnds he
has been charged a fraction over ten per
cent commission, including also sub-com-
missions, then it will be time for us to
make explanations as we say now, as we
think all who have assisted in forming our
Producers Union understand. ten per cent
commission is all anyone will pay. what
ever anyone may say to the contrary not
withstanding. Respectfully,
A. T. HATCH,
President California Fruit Union.